When Zombies Attack

In the event of a zombie infestation, what would you do? Quarantine the zombies, try to develop a cure, or load a shotgun and aim for the head? It’s a conundrum that mathematicians, of all people, are studying in earnest.

An alarming paper in the scientific journal Infectious Disease Modeling Research Progress caught our attention. A team of mathematicians from Canada modeled the potential outbreak of zombies, which they say is likely to be disastrous, unless extremely aggressive tactics are employed.

Living on Earth’s Jeff Young was equally alarmed, so he called up one of the paper’s authors, Philip Munz, to discover what all the panic is about.

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