Zombies—A Pop Culture Resource for Public Health Awareness
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Zombies--a pop culture resource for public health awareness.
itting at his laboratory bench, a scientist adds mutation after mutation to a strand of rabies virus RNA, unaware that in a few short days, an outbreak of this very mutation would destroy society as we know it. It could be called " Zombie Rabies, " a moniker befitting of the next Hollywood blockbuster—or, in this case, a representation of the debate over whether a zombie apocalypse, manufacture...
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عنوان ژورنال: Emerging Infectious Diseases
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1080-6040,1080-6059
DOI: 10.3201/eid1905.ad1905