Scientists Finally Take Future Zombie Attacks Seriously.

Scientists in Canada (because they have nothing else to do up there) are using zombie attacks as a model for how infectious diseases are spread through the human population.

Like many video games and movies, the researchers asked the question: "If there was a battle between the living and the dead, who would win?"

They modeled a program based on the more "classical" biology of zombies; ie that they are slow and dumb, then calculated the various outcomes. They concluded that they only way to really survive is to "hit them hard and hit them often."

Professor Ferguson went on to joke: "The paper considers something that many of us have worried about - particularly in our younger days - of what would be a feasible way of tackling an outbreak of a rapidly spreading zombie infection.

"My understanding of zombie biology is that if you manage to decapitate a zombie then it's dead forever. So perhaps they are being a little over-pessimistic when they conclude that zombies might take over a city in three or four days."