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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey

I'd counterpoint that oh so "scientific" article with some actual mathematical modeling done on the subject.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=zombie%20infectious%20disease%20m odeling&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFsQFjAA&url=http%3A% 2F%2Fwww.mathstat.uottawa.ca%2F~rsmith%2FZombies.p df&ei=Rk7NT-qAMsbg2QXw0piJAw&usg=AFQjCNFCv1BtYUNzvzdVjkc9oKHR4 oKhEQ&cad=rja

That's kinda awesome. But they fail to take into account the cumulative "wear and tear" of the undead. So even if zombies don't rot like the other article mentions, they still certainly fall off things or otherwise move themselves to the R class at some rate.

It would be interesting to calculate a possible survival situation where human reproduction can at least match the natural loss of zombies due to attrition. In other words, what would it take for there to be an equilibrium where humans and zombies coexist.