25th June 2005, 3:15 AM
I wasn't thinking of a disease that could spread by the air. I was thinking of the standard idea of zombie infection, spread directly by a bite or scratch like rabies. THAT could be both easily discovered and stopped, in humans and large mammals anyway. The real concern I guess would it being spread into uninhabited parts of nature unchecked.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)