The Zombies That Live Among Us



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Narrator/Writer: Stephanie Sammann
Editor: Dylan Hennessy (https://www.behance.net/dylanhennessy1)
Illustrator/Animator: Kirtan Patel (https://kpatart.com/illustrations)
Animator: Mike Ridolfi (https://www.moboxgraphics.com/)
Sound: Graham Haerther (https://haerther.net)
Thumbnail: Simon Buckmaster (https://twitter.com/forgottentowel)
Producer: Brian McManus (https://www.youtube.com/c/realengineering)

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References:
[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.4161/cib.23095
[2] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/3-D-habitat-of-the-host-ant-Camponotus-leonardi-A-stylised-representation-of-the-3-D_fig10_24194628
[3] https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/603640?journalCode=an
[4] https://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.jsp?med_id=72062
[5] https://www.pnas.org/content/114/47/12590.full
[6]https://www.britannica.com/science/hypha
[7] https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/but-not-simpler/the-fungus-that-reduced-humanity-to-the-last-of-us/
[8] https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)31164-9
[9] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucochloridium_paradoxum
[10] https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/21762/
[11] https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2013.13777
[12] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3488815/
[13] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1471-2334-2-11
[14] https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0001389
[15] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159118306998?via%3Dihubhttp://https/www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889159118306998
[15] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-top-ten-deadliest-animals-of-our-evolutionary-past-18257965/
[16] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982215015171
[17] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1471492213000202

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21 thoughts on “The Zombies That Live Among Us”

  1. There is parasite that effects humans ,it is suspected of causing people to get into car accidents. A test in a controlled area showed that many of these people had indeed had the .. toxoplasma.

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  2. So fungus behaves like fungus no matter what it grows on… I think that should’ve been the hypothesis, not the surprise lol
    wash your hands and cook your meat! You’ll get eyeball worms.

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  3. As time passes I'm sure something will eventually happen. Just look at the covid outbreak. If something were to happen it would spread across the globe at an alarming rate and there is nothing anybody could do to stop it.

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