Posted By BillHeise on September 21, 2009

This bit of news crossed the desk today (click here for the full story).

If society were ever attacked by zombies, we would probably be doomed, and quickly. That was the conclusion of two university researchers in Ottawa, Ontario.

Quick thinking Ontario researchers. They managed to set up

mathematical models hypothesizing zombie attacks as infectious diseases with the characteristics of zombie biology from popular fiction.

The question of my mind- -and I’m sure on yours- -is “Isn’t there anything better to do with your time in Ottawa, Ontario. Apparently not.

But before you get all hot and bothered about huge amounts of time being wasted in Ottawa, Ontario, you need to realize that this is not the only place that the correlation between infectious diseases and zombies has been treated. They have been reported by no less than a well-respected news service:

In fact, according to a July BBC News report, zombies are more threatening than virulent diseases because they can regenerate (unless decapitated or incinerated, of course). More troubling was the researchers’ presumption that zombies move slowly, as in older movies, but in recent fiction, they’re super-quick, making them nearly impossible to kill.

I guess that’s why we read the news.

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