Emerging Infectious Literatures and the Zombie Condition

The book club format has enabled expert and nonexpert exploration of infection and epidemiology as encountered in popular literature. This exploration reveals that fiction focusing on apocalyptic disease often uses the zombie as embodiment of infection, as well as an exemplar of current knowledge on...

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Autores principales: Verran, Joanna, Reyes, Xavier Aldana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018
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Another Dimension
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6106442/
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2409.170658
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spelling pubmed-61064422018-09-01 Emerging Infectious Literatures and the Zombie Condition Verran, Joanna Reyes, Xavier Aldana Emerg Infect Dis Another Dimension The book club format has enabled expert and nonexpert exploration of infection and epidemiology as encountered in popular literature. This exploration reveals that fiction focusing on apocalyptic disease often uses the zombie as embodiment of infection, as well as an exemplar of current knowledge on emerging disease. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2018-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6106442/ http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2409.170658 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is a publication of the U.S. Government. This publication is in the public domain and is therefore without copyright. All text from this work may be reprinted freely. Use of these materials should be properly cited.
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