Most likely zombie apocalypse scenario?

[RedDwarfIV]

Vote.

(Poll up in a moment. Damn site won\'t give me the tools except in \'edit\' mode]

[NovaSilisko]

Ponies who become so obsessed with the show that they become homicidal to anyone that doesn\'t watch it or take an interest in it.

Eventually, it would grow so strong they would begin mutating into colorful, easy-to-target zombies.

[Altair1371]

There. Like my Dr. Who pic instead?

[Kryten]

\'Dawn of the dead\' style zombies aren\'t caused by an infection-anyone who dies becomes one.

[NovaSilisko]

There. Like my Dr. Who pic instead?

I was fine with the other one, it was unintrusive.

Unlike some people\'s... :\'(

[RedDwarfIV]

I think Rabies (etc.) varient [2] is most likely. Between suppression by armed forces and personal fortification, I don\'t think it would really get out of control. People who go rushing into the streets to buy food to hoard/yell about how the government isn\'t reacting fast enough to the crisis/break open shopfronts to steal things in the confusion are more likely to get bitten than those who follow the newsreader\'s instructions and stay indoors. Provided government remains intact, or at the very least Cabinet Office Briefing Room A [COBRA] (The British government\'s emergency council), phone lines, Internet, radios, TVs and the power grid should all continue to function. Have an injury? Call 999 like you would normally and an airambulance or military airlift helicopter comes to your aid.

More annoyingly, news helicopters would probably hover over people who have put signs like \'SOS\' and \'HELP!\' on their roofs only to be stared at and broadcasted over the nation by some guy who may well have a more secure chance of surviving the disaster.

[RedDwarfIV]

\'Dawn of the dead\' style zombies aren\'t caused by an infection-anyone who dies becomes one.

Then how come the baby was born as a zombie? Clearly, transmission of disease via the umbilical. There was no reason why the baby should have died.

[Kryten]

Then how come the baby was born as a zombie? Clearly, transmission of disease via the umbilical. There was no reason why the baby should have died.

Oh, I thought you meant the original.

[Altair1371]

Yeah, Nova. I\'m kinda annoyed by the more zealous bronies. I think I\'m gonna keep the pic, though. Cowboy hats are cool!

[RedDwarfIV]

Oh, I thought you meant the original.

I hadn\'t realised that the 2004 version wasn\'t the original. The Wiki describes it as a disease in the 2004 version. Apparently the cause was unknown in the original.