What do zombies crave?

Brains!

[Shawnee123]

So, one zombie says to the other zombie "why don't you ever come over for dinner anymore?" The other zombie replies "I don't like your mother." First zombie says "so just eat the potatoes."

Ba dum dum!

[ZenGum]

Good news!

New Scientist reports that an Israeli scientist has made a big step in curing zombie cockroaches.

Some highlights:

Cockroaches can lose their ability to walk when stung by jewel wasps (Ampulex compressa) – the females of which use the cockroaches to feed their young.

The wasp, being much smaller than the cockroach, has evolved a fine sting that can deliver a venom cocktail directly into the cockroach’s brain. The poisons effectively turn the cockroach into a zombie.


Frederic Libersat from Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva, Israel, injected stung zombie cockroaches with candidate chemicals that resembled various neurotransmitters in the brain.

Libersat found that one of the drugs, a mimic of the neurotransmitter octopamine, succeeded in bringing the roaches back to life.

"The cockroach begins to walk spontaneously again, especially when injected directly into the brain," says Libersat.

One good shot to the brain stem, and no more zombie! This may yet save the world.

[Sundae]

Hang on - isn't it just turning a stationary zombie into an ambulatory one?

[ZenGum]

Well, kind of, yes.
But the cockroaches were only "zombies" in that they couldn't walk (which is a lame (cough) version of a zombie) but it cured them, thus they are now back to being normal cockroaches ... creepy, scuttling, icky little things.
The point being that neurotoxins can be countered. We may yet be able to develop an anti-zombie inoculation or treatment.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

I have to try and find one somewhere - a film I mean, not a brain.

"o/~ If I only had a film...o/~"