Zombie Apocalypse
Can you imagine it? Zombies lurking around every dark corner waiting to bite, claw, and infect you and your family. Well, if you are like 18% of the population who fear a zombie apocalypse, then you likely can imagine it. As more and more people join the ranks of the living dead, panic begins to tear through the population. Is it safe to venture outside? To go to work? Grocery store and pharmacy shelves are picked clean and soon after, looting and rioting are rampant. Lights flicker as utilities struggle to operate with fewer than half their staff reporting to work. Water sputters from faucets, and as more and more services and utilities begin failing, panic levels skyrocket.
The solution?
The Resort at Forest Haven. While the remaining uninfected members of the populace run and hide in fear, those at the resort benefit from diligent security forces and communications. We have safety equipment, hazmat suits, and quarantine areas, if necessary. We have a double-fenced perimeter. We have gas and electrical power. We have water, food, pharmaceutical, and fuel storage. Everything needed to be completely safe, secure, self-sufficient, and at the same time, maintain the high standard of living that you and your family are accustomed to.
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Many parasites manipulate the behavior of their hosts. For example:
- Toxoplasma gondii is a common parasite found in the gut of cats; it sheds eggs that are then picked up by rats. Toxoplasma forms cysts in the brains of the rat hosts. Then the parasite takes over the rat’s brain, at times intentionally making it scurry toward where the cats hang out.
- The lancet fluke, Dicrocoelium dendriticum, forces its ant host to attach to the tips of grass blades, the easier to be eaten. The fluke needs to get into the gut of a grazing animal to complete its life cycle.
- The fluke, Euhaplorchis californiensis, causes fish to shimmy and jump so wading birds will grab them and eat them, for the same reason.
- Hairworms, which live inside grasshoppers, sabotage the grasshopper’s central nervous system, forcing them to jump into pools of water, drowning themselves. Hairworms then swim away from their hapless hosts to continue their life cycle.