Mind altering infection.

Ken_Is_Here

Rats are being infected by varios bacilli which are harmful to humans in their own right,but alarmingly these bacteria are mutating together in whats known as a "molecular handshake".
In particular Trichinella spiralis and Toxoplasma Gondii are a lethal combination. These "T-organisms", T.spiralis and T.gondii parasites, make there way to the hosts brain and alter the chemistry having affect on fear responses (often attracting rats to the smell of cats urine). The purpose of this is because the bacterea prefares to reproduce in the stomach of cats.

If these bacterea were to make their way to humans there is no way of knowing what the mental affects of brain chemical alteration would be. Varios rodent-human infections(e.g. Rat-Bite Fever) result from bites or scratches. If humans were infected and in an altered state resluting in
violent behavior (often seen with schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, and ADD), bites or scratches could easily result in an infection from human to human.

Granted, infected rats do not come back to life follwing death but the possibilities of a bacterea passed from human to human causing violent behavior resulting in the spread of the infection could be severe in a culture desensitised to random acts of violence.

The science may be flawwed but possible none the less.

Kess73

It is not an improbable scenario, from a scientific pov, in fact it is pretty much one the that the 28 Day/Months films used.

Just think back to the opening scenes in 28 Days Later, and to how the first human contracted the rage virus.

Micky Dolenz

When it happens, it will probably happen like that. Have you seen the very clever six part BBC mini series, The Survivours?

A strand of the flu virus killed nearly everybody in the UK, it shows how quickly the virus spreads, ofcourse it would have been much better if the dead rose up