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Ker Than for  HYPERLINK "http://news.nationalgeographic.com" National Geographic News Published October 27, 2010 In the zombie flicks  HYPERLINK "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289043/" 28 Days Later and  HYPERLINK "http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0480249/" I Am Legend, an unstoppable viral plague sweeps across humanity, transforming people into mindless monsters with cannibalistic tendencies. Though dead humans can't come back to life, certain viruses can induce such aggressive, zombie-like behavior, scientists say in the new  HYPERLINK "http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/the-truth-behind-zombies-5710/" \o "National Geographic Channel's Gulf Oil Spill documentary" National Geographic Channel documentary The Truth Behind Zombies, premiering Saturday at 10 p.m. ET/PT. (National Geographic News is part of the National Geographic Society, which part-owns the National Geographic Channel.) For instance, rabies—a viral disease that infects the central nervous system—can drive people to be violently mad, according to  HYPERLINK "http://www6.miami.edu/UMD/CDA/UMD_People_Details" \o "Sumita Andreansky" Samita Andreansky, a virologist at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine in Florida who also appears in the documentary. Combine rabies with the ability of a flu virus to spread quickly through the air, and you might have the makings of a zombie apocalypse. Rabies Virus Mutation Possible? Unlike movie zombies, which become reanimated almost immediately after infection, the first signs a human has rabies—such as anxiety, confusion, hallucinations, and paralysis—don't typically appear for ten days to a year, as the virus incubates inside the body. Once rabies sets in, though, it's fatal within a week if left untreated. If the genetic code of the rabies virus experienced enough changes, or mutations, its incubation time could be reduced dramatically, scientists say. Many viruses have naturally high mutation rates and constantly change as a means of evading or bypassing the defenses of their hosts. There are various ways viral mutations can occur, for example through copying mistakes during gene replication or damage from ultraviolet light. (Related: " HYPERLINK "http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090504-rabies-evolution.html" \o "New, Fast-Evolving Rabies Virus Found — And Spreading" New, Fast-Evolving Rabies Virus Found—and Spreading.") "If a rabies virus can mutate fast enough, it could cause infection within an hour or a few hours. That's entirely plausible," Andreansky said. Airborne Rabies Would Create "Rage Virus" But for the rabies virus to trigger a zombie pandemic like in the movies, it would also have to be much more contagious. Humans typically catch rabies after being bitten by an infected animal, usually a dog—and the infection usually stops there. Thanks to pet vaccinations, people rarely contract rabies in the United States today, and even fewer people die from the disease. For example, in 2008 only two cases of human rabies infection were reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (See  HYPERLINK "http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2007/10/infectious-animals/johnson-photography" \o "pictures of infectious animals in National Geographic magazine" pictures of infectious animals in National Geographic magazine.) A faster mode of transmission would be through the air, which is how the  HYPERLINK "http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-diseases/influenza-article/" \o "influenza" influenza virus spreads. "All rabies has to do is go airborne, and you have the rage virus" like in 28 Days Later, Max Mogk, head of the  HYPERLINK "http://www.zombieresearch.org/home.html" \o "Zombie Research Society" Zombie Research Society, says in the documentary. The international nonprofit is devoted to "raising the level of zombie scholarship in the Arts and Sciences," according to their website. To be transmitted by air, rabies would have to "borrow" traits from another virus, such as influenza. Different forms, or strains, of the same virus can swap pieces of genetic code through processes called reassortment or recombination, said  HYPERLINK "http://www.vetmed.vt.edu/org/dbsp/faculty/subbiah.asp" \o "Elankumaran Subbiah" Elankumaran Subbiah, a virologist at Virginia Tech who was not involved in the documentary. But unrelated viruses simply do not hybridize in nature, Subbiah told National Geographic News. Likewise, it's scientifically unheard of for two radically different viruses such as rabies and influenza to borrow traits, he said. "They're too different. They cannot share genetic information. Viruses assemble only parts that belong to them, and they don't mix and match from different families." ( HYPERLINK "http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-diseases/infectious-disease-quiz/" \o "Take a quiz on infectious diseases" Take a quiz on infectious diseases.) Engineered Zombie Virus Possible? It's theoretically possible—though extremely difficult—to create a hybrid rabies-influenza virus using modern genetic-engineering techniques, the University of Miami's Andreansky said. "Sure, I could imagine a scenario where you mix rabies with a flu virus to get airborne transmission, a measles virus to get personality changes, the encephalitis virus to cook your brain with fever"—and thus increase aggression even further—"and throw in the ebola virus to cause you to bleed from your guts. Combine all these things, and you'll [get] something like a zombie virus," she said. "But [nature] doesn't allow all of these things to happen at the same time. ... 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