Utah Zombie Task Force
What we Know
From gather intel from by various sources, one is for certain. Zombies are infectious, flesh eaters, move in groups, and are slow. They are the undead and not completely dead according to researchers that are in Matt Moak’s book, “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies.”
According to our alert system that was provided by Governor Herbert (Alert 9), It came from the North from the Idaho broader which the zombie heard is heading downward. We don’t know what exactly caused them to move toward Salt Lake or to Utah, but they are here. This page aims to explain what we do know about these zombies and their capabilities.
The Zombies main function of the Brain is most likely the Frontal lobe due to the zombies main action: walking.
According to George Romero (The father of the Zombie genre), states that:
“Zombies are able to work together in teams, are able to communicate, and can learn to enjoy music, follow directions, use weapons, and may out smart humans. Romero also states that zombies may also retain memory from there past lives from their personalities, habits, and or rituals. The learning ability seems to far outpace common beliefs about the modern zombie.”
This is also a theory that also needs to be tested is the fact that zombies are in a state of insomnia, thus the learning of zombies is completely bounded by a sleep necessity; sleep.
Zombie blood in nature is pathogenic (meaning able to transfer from one person to another), but how it transfers is in question of the act of transmission. Although, getting bitten or encountering the narcotic body fluids to open wounds or the mucus membranes,
“Because the pathogen moves freely throughout the host, is it possible that the pathogen itself has evolved an independent oxygen-carrying capability?”
This is very possible due to the fact that when an organism needs to survive, it is because it adapts to the environment or its surroundings. In order to survive, it needs to act and respond to surviving. The mechanism or the component of surviving is basic evolution, instead of the profaned monkey, zombies are the model and its multiple pathogens that it picks up. The primary infection is able to adapt and able to transfer; like the common cold thus able to get stronger due to various transfers that allows mutation. This also explains how zombies are to walk aside from the semi-function of the frontal lobe, is livor mortis – the concentration of blood that settles to the lowest extremist to the ground via the feet, legs, and lower regions of the trunk. The physiology states that the gathered un-circulate blood is where decomposition is most likely to occur and in part; discoloration, swells, and the early stages of breaking as well as showing of bone and sinew. In part, if the blood or body fluids from the zombie is that deadly, what makes it deadly? It’s pathogenic nature? Or is it something more?
According to Moak (p. 57), zombie blood needs to flow within a circulator system in order to infect the center organs. But that is what is the most intriguing part, it needs to get in the human body. Although, the common zombie bite as well as body fluids entering through cuts or openings, it still needs to circulate thus the advancement of the narcotic pathogen is less like to infect the living host (the person) when alive compared to a dying person that is on the verge of death. This can be tested if the zombie blood if somehow taints the oxygen component of the hemoglobin in the vector via zombie thus becoming the pathogenic component of the disease or virus. According to Romero,
“The zombie bite only serves to speed up a person’s death but doesn’t change the inevitable fate of every man, woman, and child on the plant to turn into a flesh-starved zombie once expired. The cause of death is not important, as it is the death itself that creates the new zombie.”
Some researchers suggest that zombie blood acts like an amoebae or bacteria in search to consume energy or food which mimics the behavior of a zombie itself. Most of all, the most intriguing and likely fact is that zombies may possessed a component in the blood which is glycoprotein. Glycoprotein found mainly in fishes, acts like anti-freeze in the blood stream of the fish’s body during the winter seasons, but in this case; zombies. Thus zombies are able to survive harsh winters and not worry about maintaining a body temperature. But what the zombie compensates from the glycoprotein is what they lack in motion and motive in extreme cold weather then becoming a frozen zombie-iscle.
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Zombies maintain some type of memory.Although, this may
need further analysis, Zombies do know the differences
between a wall and a glass window when it comes to
reaching a goal. Furthermore, since learning and
memory are intertwined, researchers suggested that the learning process is based on two concepts: “Model-free learning and Model-based learning”. Model-free learning is the trial and error which is also aligned with recognizing rewards whereas model-based learning is where the brain learns from complex situations for on-going solutions. If the typical zombie is able to complete such tasks like opening the common door or using tools, it is most likely that the zombie brain state is in a model-free learning over the high-functioning model-based learning.
The components of Zombie in its appearance is very noticeable: decay, slow, low-functioned, and over all the lack of humanity. But what drives a zombie to eat, in this case, consume flesh? In “Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Zombies”, the decaying body of the zombies is the main purpose is to stay functioning, but what is mostly like the goal of the zombie’s appetite is the consumption of blood versus human flesh. Where the zombie blood has gone to a necrotic state (or sepsis), the functioning of the zombie needs blood that is high in oxygen. In fact, according to researchers, blood flow in the human body can be carried on throughout the body in by external magnets due to the hemoglobin and its characteristics of transports of oxygen along with providing circulation to the brain and other various components. This is very complying and it makes the most sense compared to zombies craving for brains (although, the brain produces many substances and compounds, the most unique is Kerosene), blood is what makes the body and the brain function which zombies have very less of.
What we know about the zombie disease/virus is that it is not airborne or caused by chemicals (C88 or Radiation). According to our alert system (based on alerts….), the C88 contamination that hit Utah was encountered on the Southern Regions of Utah along with Colorado. No known reports of
chemical or industrial contamination has occurred in the Northern States or in this, case the Pacific. We are aware of the outbreak that happen in Seattle, Washington due to the personal accounts of Dr. Twobly. We also know that the Zombie epidemic started in China and eventually was transported by
illegal immigrants to coastal cities throughout the world according to Max Brooks. Re-emphasize the severity of the event, the Zombie epidemic has come to SLC.