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CDC: Get Ready for Zombie Apocalypse

Or, you know, a hurricane

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted May 19, 2011 9:00 AM CDT

(Newser) – The CDC wants to make sure you’re prepared … for a zombie apocalypse. In a blog posting Monday that quickly became the organization’s most popular ever, Assistant Surgeon General Ali Khan offers helpful tips to prepare for the invasion of “flesh-eating zombies.” Conveniently enough, many of the steps can also be used to prepare for other emergencies and natural disasters, like preparing an emergency kit and a family emergency plan.

An emergency kit, the blog notes, can “get you through the first couple of days before you can locate a zombie-free refugee camp,” while an emergency plan indicates important things like “who you would call if zombies started appearing outside your doorstep.” Or, if you happen to be facing, say, a hurricane instead, you could use the same kit or plan. A CDC spokesperson tells Fox News the organization came up with the “tongue-in-cheek” campaign after someone asked if zombies were a concern after the radiation crisis in Japan. The blog is here, though the site appears to be crashed at the moment—here's hoping they had an emergency plan...

Even the CDC is nervous about zombies.
Even the CDC is nervous about zombies.   (Getty Images)
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Someone bemoaned that we kept putting out the same messages. ... People are so tuned into zombies. People are really dialed in on zombies. The idea is we're reaching an audience or a segment we'd never reach with typical messages. - CDC spokesman Dave Daigle

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Griffmaster_01
May 19, 2011 9:47 PM CDT
 Zombies may be treated as a joke, but capitalism is unsustainable and if unchanged will lead to a future of overpopulation and resource wars, a zombie apocalypse indeed.
JackNelsonSteward
May 19, 2011 2:35 PM CDT
good to see a sense of humor in such places. 
truefreedom
May 19, 2011 1:47 PM CDT
May 21st, that's when they'll appear. Hopefully these zombies will attack the Christian crazies that been advertising the end of the world the past few months. 
 

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