The modern craze with zombie stories, first begun by George Romero’s seminal work Night of the Living Dead in 1968, has even gotten into the brains of academic researchers from Canada, who decided to use the undead for a mathematical modeling exercise to better understand the threat of infectious diseases spreading around the globe. After crafting “a basic model for zombie infection,” and refining that model “to introduce a latent period of zombification,” the team from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University concluded that “only quick, aggressive attacks can stave off the doomsday scenario: the collapse of society as zombies overtake us all.”