EpiMan is ready，are you ready? There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency.
有各种各样的突发事件我们可以提前准备，例如僵尸来袭。是的，我说的是僵-尸-来-袭。现在你可能一笑置之，但它发生时你会庆幸你读过这篇文章，并且，嗨，或许你将甚至学到如何为一场真正的突发事件做好准备。 cited from CDC@ USA http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealt ... -zombie-apocalypse/
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A Brief History of Zombies
僵尸简史
We’ve all seen at least one movie about flesh-eating zombies taking over (my personal favorite is Resident Evil), but where do zombies come from and why do they love eating brains so much? The word zombie comes from Haitian and New Orleans voodoo origins. Although its meaning has changed slightly over the years, it refers to a human corpse mysteriously reanimated to serve the undead. Through ancient voodoo and folk-lore traditions, shows like the Walking Dead were born.
我们都至少看过一部食肉僵尸的电影（我个人的最爱是“生化危机”），但僵尸来自何处，为何他们那么喜欢吃脑子？僵尸一词来源于海地和新奥尔良伏都教起源。虽然多年来它的意思有细微的改变，它仍然指的是被不死之身操纵的神秘地复活人类的尸体。根据古代的伏都教和民间传说，诞生了如“行尸走肉”等电影。
In movies, shows, and literature, zombies are often depicted as being created by an infectious virus, which is passed on via bites and contact with bodily fluids. Harvard psychiatrist Steven Schlozman wrote a (fictional) medical paper on the zombies presented in Night of the Living Dead and refers to the condition as Ataxic Neurodegenerative Satiety Deficiency Syndrome caused by an infectious agent. The Zombie Survival Guide identifies the cause of zombies as a virus called solanum. Other zombie origins shown in films include radiation from a destroyed NASA Venus probe (as in Night of the Living Dead), as well as mutations of existing conditions such as prions, mad-cow disease, measles and rabies.
在电影、演出及文学作品中，一般被咬到或者接触了某种带有病毒的体液会把人变成僵尸。哈佛大学精神病学家史蒂芬·施洛茨曼（Steven C. Schlozman）发表了一篇医学科幻论文，将电影活死人之夜（Night of the Living Dead）中的僵尸定义为由一种未知病原体导致的共济失调神经退行性饱腹感缺失综合征 (Ataxic Neurodegenerative Satiety Deficiency Syndrome)。僵尸生存手册鉴定出僵尸的病原体是茄属植物。电影中其他导致变成僵尸的原因有被一颗毁坏的美国国家航空航天局的金星探测器辐射（电影活死人之夜），和现存条件的变异，包括阮病毒、疯牛病、麻疹病和狂犬病等。
The rise of zombies in pop culture has given credence to the idea that a zombie apocalypse could happen. In such a scenario zombies would take over entire countries, roaming city streets eating anything living that got in their way. The proliferation of this idea has led many people to wonder “How do I prepare for a zombie apocalypse?”
有各种各样的突发事件我们可以提前准备，例如僵尸来袭。是的，我说的是僵-尸-来-袭。现在你可能一笑置之，但它发生时你会庆幸你读过这篇文章，并且，嗨，或许你将甚至学到如何为一场真正的突发事件做好准备。 cited from CDC@ USA http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealt ... -zombie-apocalypse/
translated by EpiMan@ EpiMan http://home.epiman.cn/space-uid-1.html
A Brief History of Zombies
僵尸简史
We’ve all seen at least one movie about flesh-eating zombies taking over (my personal favorite is Resident Evil), but where do zombies come from and why do they love eating brains so much? The word zombie comes from Haitian and New Orleans voodoo origins. Although its meaning has changed slightly over the years, it refers to a human corpse mysteriously reanimated to serve the undead. Through ancient voodoo and folk-lore traditions, shows like the Walking Dead were born.
我们都至少看过一部食肉僵尸的电影（我个人的最爱是“生化危机”），但僵尸来自何处，为何他们那么喜欢吃脑子？僵尸一词来源于海地和新奥尔良伏都教起源。虽然多年来它的意思有细微的改变，它仍然指的是被不死之身操纵的神秘地复活人类的尸体。根据古代的伏都教和民间传说，诞生了如“行尸走肉”等电影。
In movies, shows, and literature, zombies are often depicted as being created by an infectious virus, which is passed on via bites and contact with bodily fluids. Harvard psychiatrist Steven Schlozman wrote a (fictional) medical paper on the zombies presented in Night of the Living Dead and refers to the condition as Ataxic Neurodegenerative Satiety Deficiency Syndrome caused by an infectious agent. The Zombie Survival Guide identifies the cause of zombies as a virus called solanum. Other zombie origins shown in films include radiation from a destroyed NASA Venus probe (as in Night of the Living Dead), as well as mutations of existing conditions such as prions, mad-cow disease, measles and rabies.
在电影、演出及文学作品中，一般被咬到或者接触了某种带有病毒的体液会把人变成僵尸。哈佛大学精神病学家史蒂芬·施洛茨曼（Steven C. Schlozman）发表了一篇医学科幻论文，将电影活死人之夜（Night of the Living Dead）中的僵尸定义为由一种未知病原体导致的共济失调神经退行性饱腹感缺失综合征 (Ataxic Neurodegenerative Satiety Deficiency Syndrome)。僵尸生存手册鉴定出僵尸的病原体是茄属植物。电影中其他导致变成僵尸的原因有被一颗毁坏的美国国家航空航天局的金星探测器辐射（电影活死人之夜），和现存条件的变异，包括阮病毒、疯牛病、麻疹病和狂犬病等。
The rise of zombies in pop culture has given credence to the idea that a zombie apocalypse could happen. In such a scenario zombies would take over entire countries, roaming city streets eating anything living that got in their way. The proliferation of this idea has led many people to wonder “How do I prepare for a zombie apocalypse?”
