This summer a new blockbuster movie, World War Z, entered the zombie canon. Based on Max Brooks’s novel of the same name and starring Brad Pitt, it has stoked fascination with the undead all over again while raking in enough at the box office — its North American opening brought in $66 million — that Paramount is already planning a sequel.
A zombie apocalypse, though, is good for more than just mindless summer entertainment. It’s an engaging way to promote better global public and animal health, which might help humanity survive the next all-too-real pandemic or a bioterror attack.
The pandemic that rages through World War Z, though fictional, has elements in common with real-life threats. From the beginning, the movie hints that a zoonotic agent — that is, an animal disease that is communicable to humans — is the cause of zombie infection. News reports show dolphins and porpoises beaching themselves before dying, and dogs are shown tearing each other apart. The presumably viral cause is never revealed; however, the real disease that zombie symptoms most closely resemble is rabies.
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