Real zombies with malaria?!?

[Allandaros]

The spaghetti harvest? I've got to see that someday...heard so much about it...

However, the article at hand is obviously incorrect. Everyone knows that zombies are produced by the virus SOLANUM. Jeez. Didn't you people read the Zombie Survival Guide?

 

[Zander]

my favorite from ages ago was the one with the ladies harvesting noodles from trees in italy.

That was classic.

 

[Zander]

However, the article at hand is obviously incorrect. Everyone knows that zombies are produced by the virus SOLANUM. Jeez. Didn't you people read the Zombie Survival Guide?

Seriously, the zombie myth may derive from the use of tetrodotoxin in Haitian folk medicine. Tetrodotoxin, which occurs naturally in the skins of local toads, when ingested in the right dose causes paralysis in people. Vital life signs are reduced to a minimum and victims of tetrodotoxin poisoning may be mistakenly certified dead. When they recover, it appears that they have returned from the dead.

 

[maddman75]

Just because it looks like a BBC webpage does not mean the BBC is responsible for it.

The biggest giveaway is the URL. It is an IP address and does not contain "www.bbc.co.uk".

One thing about the internet is that it is very easy to copy another website's appearance. Great Aprill Fool's pranks look like something official. Plus, this isn't the first time I've seen a "BBC article" that was a prank... last year a "BBC article" reported that Britney Spears had been severely injured in a car crash. No such event occured.

A clever prankster can hide this from casual scrutiny with proper use of vb tags, like so

OMG check out teh zombies!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/south_asia/4483241.stm.htm