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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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