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‘Train to Busan’, a 2016 South Korean action horror film, became a reality for America when several videos last year showed people unable to stand and acting weird on the streets of the United States. A conspiracy theory doing rounds then stated that they were affected by some “zombie virus”. But turns out, it was drugs. Drug Xylazine, also known as ‘tranq’, ‘tranq dope’ and ‘zombie drug’, has sedative-like symptoms, leading to extreme sleepiness, respiratory depression. Not just this, the other ‘zombie-like’ effects of the drug includes raw wounds on the user’s skin that can spread rapidly with repeated exposure. Brooo, what’s happening in the USA🙆🏽‍♂️💀? It starts with ulcers, hardens to dead skin called eschar, and if left untreated can result in amputation. The major issue of the ‘zombie drug’ is that if you overdose, chances of revival are slim. People don’t respond to naloxone, or Narcan, the most common overdose reversal treatment, making Xylazine deadly. Xylazine first appeared in Philadelphia and soon after moved to San Francisco and Los Angeles. Another major problem is there a risk in overdose cases if the zombie drug made its way into other substances. According to a report in New York Post, the US Food and Drug Administration has approved, xylazine, a non-opioid, for veterinary use. But it is not safe for humans. The report further stated that because it is not listed as a controlled substance for animals or humans, ‘tranq’ lands in a confusing and horrifying g...

• • • • They’re potentially prying open Pandora’s pox. French scientists have sparked fears of yet another pandemic after reviving a “zombie virus” that had been trapped under a frozen lake in Russia for a record 50,000 years. “The situation would be much more disastrous in the case of plant, animal, or human diseases caused by the revival of an ancient unknown virus,” According to the preliminary paper, global warming is causing vast swaths of the permafrost — permanently frozen ground covering one-quarter of the Northern Hemisphere — to irreversibly thaw. This has had the alarming effect of “releasing organic matter frozen for up to a million years” — including potentially harmful pathogens. “Part of this organic matter also consists of revived cellular microbes (prokaryotes, unicellular eukaryotes) as well as viruses that remained dormant since prehistorical times,” the researchers write. Aix-Marseille University professor Jean-Michel Claverie, co-author of the study, issued a warning to medical authorities about the lack of significant updates on “live” viruses in permafrost since original studies in 2014 and 2015, “The situation would be much more disastrous in the case of plant, animal, or human diseases caused by the revival of an ancient unknown virus,” the researchers write. AFP via Getty Images Frozen ‘zombie’ worms brought back to life after 24,000 years In order to study these awakening organisms, scientists have, perhaps paradoxically, revived some of these so...

ProblemSolved, USA TODAY If zombies were to start roaming the streets – yes, we said zombies–the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants you to be prepared. In the midst of providing guidelines on an unprecedented pandemic, the Center for Disease Control updated its tips to prepare for another extremeoccurrence: A zombie apocalypse. While the CDC says it began as a "tongue-in-cheek campaign," itactually is a practical guide for any emergency, like hurricanes, earthquakes or floods. "You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this," So, what would happen if zombies were to start roaming the streets? The CDC says it would conduct an investigation, as it would for any disease outbreak, and provide assistance to states. Until it could determine the cause of the outbreak and how it could be treated and stopped, the CDC listed guidelines to follow to be "safe than sorry." The first step is to prepare for zombies – or any disaster: Create an emergency kit with essentials to last a few days. The kit should include a gallon of water per day for each person; nonperishable food items; medications; tools and supplies; sanitation and hygiene products; clothing and bedding; important documents and first aid supplies, Next, you should create an emergency planwhen a zombie, or a hurricane, isoutside your door. This includes identifying the types of emergencies possiblein your area– such as a tornadoor an earthquake – to prepare for that situation and make a l...

Videos going viral on Twitter showed people acting strange on the streets of Philadelphia, USA. Many commented asking if they were affected by the 'zombie virus'. However, netizens soon realized that the weird behaviour depicted by people was caused by drug addiction. Check out the clips below! It is eerie! The video was followed by several similar clips in the comment section. Many commenters laid out their doubts. One asked, "Are you sure it’s not the zombie virus we heard about last Week (sic)??” Another stated, "When the zombie virus finally hit…Early stage..” A third user said, "You’ve watched too much resident evil and walking dead (sic)."

The words "zombie virus discovered in Russian ice" sounds like something straight out of a horror film ― although after the pandemic, it's pretty difficult to shock any of us. But scientists recently published research that shows viruses frozen for tens of thousands of years in Siberian permafrost are being revived. Researchers from They said their work posed negligible risk to people ― unlike that of other scientists looking for ancient viruses in frozen remains of mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses or prehistoric horses. But their results could, they wrote, "be extrapolated to many other "It is thus likely that ancient permafrost … will release these unknown viruses upon thawing," they said in "How long these viruses could remain infectious once exposed to outdoor conditions and how likely they will be to encounter and infect a suitable host in the interval, is yet impossible to estimate. "But the risk is bound to increase in the context of global warming, when permafrost thawing will keep accelerating, and more people will be populating the Arctic in the wake of industrial ventures." 'Back-from-the-dead' viruses The so-called zombie viruses are no threat to people, being types that infect only micro-organisms, but other pathogens released in future as permafrost melts could, scientists say, pose risks to humans. The findings are an echo of the 1993 film Jurassic Park, in which scientists cloned dinosaurs using DNA taken from insects preserved in amber ― only for the creature...

'Zombie virus' discovered after being trapped in Siberian permafrost for nearly 50,000 years A team from the French National Centre for Scientific Research said further work needs to be carried out to assess what dangers could lie ahead from the risk of viruses in permafrost as climate change causes frozen landscapes to melt. One of the viruses had remained infectious after more than 48,500 years in deep permafrost, according to the study led by microbiologist Jean-Marie Alempic from the French National Centre for Scientific Research. The virus, known as pandoravirus, infects only single-cell organisms and should pose no threat to humans. The study, which has not been peer-reviewed, notes there has so far been limited research into "live" viruses found in permafrost. The authors say this "wrongly suggests that such occurrences are rare and that 'zombie viruses' are not a public health threat". Read more: The team from the French National Centre for Scientific Research said further work needs to be carried out to assess what dangers could lie ahead from the risk of viruses in permafrost as climate change causes frozen landscapes to melt. The study reads: "One quarter of the northern hemisphere is underlain by permanently frozen ground, referred to as permafrost. Advertisement "Due to climate warming, irreversibly thawing permafrost is releasing organic matter frozen for up to a million years, most of which decomposes into carbon dioxide and methane, further enhancing the gr...

• Global warming is irrevocably thawing enormous swathes of permafrost - permanently frozen ground that covers one-quarter of the Northern Hemisphere. This has had the unsettling effect of “releasing organic material frozen for up to a million years”, including deadly germs. • Scientists have, perhaps strangely, revived some of these so-called “zombie viruses” from the Siberian permafrost. • While the Pandoravirus was discovered at the bottom of a lake in Yukechi Alas, Yakutia, Russia, others have been discovered everywhere from mammoth fur to Siberian wolf intestines. • Scientists believe that COVID-19-like pandemics will become more common in the future as melting permafrost releases long-dormant viruses like a microbial Captain America, as per New York Post. • The newly-thawed virus might only be the tip of the epidemiological iceberg as there are likely more hibernating viruses yet to be discovered.