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On Thursday, the agency made it official: Zombies don't exist. |
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The horrific face-eating arrest in Miami and several other seemingly subhuman acts has many people wondering what's behind this flesh-munching wave of terror. Over the years the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released a couple of tongue-in-cheek "zombie warnings," which really are just disaster-preparedness stunts. But on Thursday, the agency made it official: Zombies don't exist. "CDC does not know of a virus or condition that would reanimate the dead (or one that would present zombie-like symptoms)," wrote agency spokesman David Daigle in an email to The Huffington Post. Nevertheless, recent incidents in which humans reportedly ate human flesh have the Internet in a firestorm, with "zombie apocalypse" being Google's third most popular search term by Friday morning. The zombie craze seemed to start with an attack in Miami on Saturday, when Rudy Eugene, 31, was killed by cops while in the process of eating almost the entirety of a homeless man's face off. The victim, Ronald Poppo, miraculously survived, but doctors are having a hard time figuring out how to put his face back together. Then, on Tuesday, 21-year-old Alexander Kinyua of Maryland allegedly admitted to dismembering his roommate and then eating his heart and brain. Cops in Canada are also searching for a low-budget porn actor who allegedly killed a young man with an ice pick, dismembered the body and then raped and ate flesh from the corpse. Luka Rocco Magnotta is being hunted after he allegedly mailed some of the body parts to Ottawa. He's also accused of killing cats on video and posting the footage online. Gawker fingered a "mysterious rash" breakout at a high school in Hollywood and other parts of Florida -- which hazmat and disease control teams still can't explain -- as further proof that zombies are taking over. Zombie-like characteristics have been confirmed in the animal kingdom, just not in humans. A newfound fungus in a Brazilian rain forest -- called Ophiocordyceps camponoti-balzani -- is known to infect an ant, take over its brain so as to move the body to a good location for growth, and then kill the insect. Yet Daigle dismissed "fictional viruses" like Ataxic Neurodegenrative Satiety Deficiency Syndrome, noting that other triggers have been alleged to cause zombie-like symptoms. "Films have included radiation as well as mutations of existing conditions such as prions, mad-cow disease, measles, and rabies," he said. (Read by Emily Cheng. Emily Cheng in is a journalist at the China Daily Website.) (Agencies) |
美國(guó)邁阿密駭人聽(tīng)聞的“裸男吃臉案”，和其它多起吃人案使許多民眾懷疑事件背后是否有“僵尸”作祟。 過(guò)去數(shù)年來(lái)，美國(guó)疾控中心（CDC）多次發(fā)布半開(kāi)玩笑的“僵尸預(yù)警”，實(shí)際上僅是防災(zāi)噱頭。但上周四，CDC正式宣布：僵尸并不存在。 CDC發(fā)言人大衛(wèi)-戴格在給《赫芬頓郵報(bào)》的電郵中寫(xiě)道：“CDC并不知道有病毒或條件能讓人死而復(fù)生（或是造成類(lèi)似僵尸的癥狀）。” 然而，近期多起人吃人的案件已在網(wǎng)絡(luò)上引發(fā)熱議，“僵尸啟示錄”上周五上午成為谷歌第三大熱搜詞。 “僵尸狂熱”始于周六邁阿密的食人案。31歲的魯?shù)?尤金在啃食一名無(wú)家可歸的男子的臉部時(shí)被警察擊斃，受害者羅納德?普普整張臉幾乎全被啃掉，但奇跡般地活了下來(lái)。醫(yī)生們正想法恢復(fù)他的面部。 緊接著的周二，馬里蘭州21歲的亞歷山大?金約承認(rèn)肢解了室友，吃掉了受害者的心臟和大腦。 加拿大警察還在搜捕一位低成本色情片的演員，據(jù)稱(chēng)他用冰錐殺死了一名年輕男子，對(duì)受害者實(shí)施了肢解、辱尸、并吃掉部分尸體的慘無(wú)人道的行為。嫌疑人盧卡?羅科?馬尼奧塔把部分尸體郵寄到了渥太華，之后遭到搜捕。他還拍攝了虐殺小貓的視頻，并上傳到網(wǎng)站。 八卦網(wǎng)站Gawker指出，佛羅里達(dá)州好萊塢某高中和該州其它部分地區(qū)爆發(fā)“神秘的皮疹”疫情，就連危險(xiǎn)物質(zhì)和疾病控制單位也無(wú)法解釋?zhuān)W(wǎng)站以此進(jìn)一步佐證僵尸正接管世界。 類(lèi)僵尸特征已在動(dòng)物界得到證實(shí)，但人類(lèi)世界則不存在。巴西熱帶雨林新發(fā)現(xiàn)的一種名為Ophiocordyceps camponoti-balzani的真菌能夠感染螞蟻，控制螞蟻的腦部，讓它們往適合這類(lèi)真菌生長(zhǎng)的地點(diǎn)移動(dòng)，之后便殺死螞蟻。 但戴格駁斥世界上存在類(lèi)似共濟(jì)失調(diào)神經(jīng)退化飽腹感缺乏綜合癥的“虛構(gòu)病毒”，并指出其它因素?fù)?jù)稱(chēng)也會(huì)引發(fā)類(lèi)似僵尸的癥狀。 他說(shuō)：“根據(jù)多部電影，輻射以及朊病毒、瘋牛病、麻疹和狂犬病等現(xiàn)有病情突變也會(huì)造成類(lèi)似僵尸的癥狀?！?/p> 相關(guān)閱讀 美發(fā)布“僵尸預(yù)警指南” 指導(dǎo)民眾避難 萬(wàn)圣節(jié)調(diào)查：1/3美國(guó)人迷信鬼魂 瑪雅考古新發(fā)現(xiàn)推翻“2012世界末日說(shuō)” 俄女子稱(chēng)發(fā)現(xiàn)“外星人”尸體放冰箱兩年 普京：美國(guó)是全球經(jīng)濟(jì)的“寄生蟲(chóng)” （中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)網(wǎng)英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津 Julie 編輯：陳丹妮） |
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Vocabulary: tongue-in-cheek: 半開(kāi)玩笑的，不當(dāng)真的 reanimate: 使復(fù)活，使恢復(fù)生氣 firestorm: 大爆發(fā) low-budget: 低成本 fungus: 菌類(lèi)，真菌 |
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