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6. Is It Progression if a Zombie Uses a Fork?
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This week, Hannah goes over some real-life zombie examples and how disease has played a part in the idea of a zombie apocalypse.
Created and co-hosted by Georgia Abrams and Hannah Rucinski.
Sound design by Shannon Webster.
Inspired by your mom's pillow talk.
For further reading:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2270819/
https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/
https://www.britannica.com/science/leprosy/History
https://www.cdc.gov/leprosy/health-care-workers/other-hansens-disease.html
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/zombie-virus
https://websites.umich.edu/~uncanny/zombies.html
http://traumathreatandpublicsafetypsychology.com/blog/psychology-of-zombies
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies by Matt Mogk (2011)
https://www.livescience.com/65593-zombie-cannibal-cultures.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/why-is-cannibalism-the-so-taboo-when-it-s-so-common-in-animals
https://health.mo.gov/living/healthcondiseases/communicable/cwd/index.php
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/real-life-zombies
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