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Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse

May 16, 2011 by Ali S. Khan

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There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for. Take a zombie apocalypse for example. That’s right, I
said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe
you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency.

A Brief History of Zombies

We’ve all seen at least one movie about flesh-eating zombies taking over (my personal favorite is Resident Evil), but where do
zombies come from and why do they love eating brains so much? The word zombie comes from Haitian and New Orleans
voodoo origins. Although its meaning has changed slightly over the years, it refers to a human corpse mysteriously
reanimated to serve the undead. Through ancient voodoo and folk-lore traditions, shows like the Walking Dead were born.

A couple dressed as In movies, shows, and literature, zombies are often depicted as being created by an
zombies - Danny Zucco and infectious virus, which is passed on via bites and contact with bodily fluids. Harvard
Sandy Olsson from the movie psychiatrist Steven Schlozman wrote a (fictional) medical paper on the zombies presented in
Grease walking in the annual Night of the Living Dead and refers to the condition as Ataxic Neurodegenerative Satiety
Toronto Zombie Walk. Deficiency Syndrome caused by an infectious agent. The Zombie Survival Guide identifies the
A couple dressed as zombies –
cause of zombies as a virus called solanum. Other zombie origins shown in films include
Danny Zucco and Sandy Olsson radiation from a destroyed NASA Venus probe (as in Night of the Living Dead), as well as
from the movie Grease walking mutations of existing conditions such as prions, mad-cow disease, measles and rabies.
in the annual Toronto Zombie
Walk. The rise of zombies in pop culture has given credence to the idea that a zombie apocalypse
could happen. In such a scenario zombies would take over entire countries, roaming city
streets eating anything living that got in their way. The proliferation of this idea has led many people to wonder “How do I
prepare for a zombie apocalypse?”

Well, we’re here to answer that question for you, and hopefully share a few tips about preparing for real emergencies too!

Better Safe than Sorry

So what do you need to do before zombies…or hurricanes or pandemics for example,

actually happen? First of all, you should have an emergency kit in your house. This
includes things like water, food, and other supplies to get you through the first couple of
days before you can locate a zombie-free refugee camp (or in the event of a natural
disaster, it will buy you some time until you are able to make your way to an evacuation
shelter or utility lines are restored). Below are a few items you should include in your kit,
Some of the supplies for your
for a full list visit the CDC Emergency page. emergency kit

Water (1 gallon per person per day)

Food (stock up on non-perishable items that you eat regularly)
Medications (this includes prescription and non-prescription meds)
 Tools and Supplies (utility knife, duct tape, battery powered radio, etc.)
Sanitation and Hygiene (household bleach, soap, towels, etc.)
Clothing and Bedding (a change of clothes for each family member and blankets)
Important documents (copies of your driver’s license, passport, and birth certificate to name a few)
First Aid supplies (although you’re a goner if a zombie bites you, you can use these supplies to treat basic cuts and
lacerations that you might get during a tornado or hurricane)

Once you’ve made your emergency kit, you should sit down with your family and come up with an emergency plan. This
includes where you would go and who you would call if zombies started appearing outside your door step. You can also
implement this plan if there is a flood, earthquake, or other emergency.

1. Identify the types of emergencies that are possible in your area. Besides a zombie apocalypse, this Picture of
may include floods, tornadoes, or earthquakes. If you are unsure contact your local Red Cross Family by
chapter for more information. mailbox
2. Pick a meeting place for your family to regroup in case zombies invade your home…or your town Family members
evacuates because of a hurricane. Pick one place right outside your home for sudden emergencies meeting by their
and one place outside of your neighborhood in case you are unable to return home right away. mailbox. You
should pick two
3. Identify your emergency contacts. Make a list of local contacts like the police, fire department, and
meeting places,
your local zombie response team. Also identify an out-of-state contact that you can call during an one close to your
emergency to let the rest of your family know you are ok. home and farther
4. Plan your evacuation route. When zombies are hungry they won’t stop until they get food (i.e., away
brains), which means you need to get out of town fast! Plan where you would go and multiple routes
you would take ahead of time so that the flesh eaters don’t have a chance! This is also helpful when natural disasters
strike and you have to take shelter fast.

Never Fear – CDC is Ready

Get a Kit, Make If zombies did start roaming the streets, CDC would conduct an investigation much like any other disease
a Plan, Be outbreak. CDC would provide technical assistance to cities, states, or international partners dealing with a
Prepared zombie infestation. This assistance might include consultation, lab testing and analysis, patient

Get a Kit, Make a

management and care, tracking of contacts, and infection control (including isolation and quarantine). It’s
Plan, Be Prepared likely that an investigation of this scenario would seek to accomplish several goals: determine the cause
of the illness, the source of the infection/virus/toxin, learn how it is transmitted and how readily it is
spread, how to break the cycle of transmission and thus prevent further cases, and how patients can best
be treated. Not only would scientists be working to identify the cause and cure of the zombie outbreak, but CDC and other
federal agencies would send medical teams and first responders to help those in affected areas (I will be volunteering the
young nameless disease detectives for the field work).

To learn more about what CDC does to prepare for and respond to emergencies of all kinds, visit:
http://emergency.cdc.gov/cdc/orgs_progs.asp

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I might suggest adding a baseball bat, preferably aluminum, to your emergency kit as well. It doesn’t require ammunition
and can be highly effective at clearing a path through hordes of zombies whilst trying to make good your escape.

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That is soooooo awesome!!!! Thanks, CDC.

Dude! So totally awesome!

I love this post! My friends and I were discussing the zombie apocalypse after watching Zombieland. The discussion
revolved around what would we do and how would we do it. It then dawned on us that what we were discussing would
be extremely practical in real-world scenarios as well. That’s when we began our journey into the world of prepping. I
hope your article sparks many more discussions in many more homes across the country! Thanks!

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This is the stuff we preach on a daily basis. Our goal is to prepare the masses for impending doom, with a smile. Being
prepared for zombies is exactly that, being prepared. No, this doesn’t mean we aren’t crazy, but at least we’ll have a
fighting chance no matter what happens.

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I love that you covered the issue this way! You might interested in a group called Zombie Squad that is centered around
exactly this idea -using the coming zombie apocalypse to get people interested in general emergency preparedness. I did
an interview and profile with the group on my blog a while ago.

Using the zombie apocalypse is a fun way to get people thinking about the basics of being prepared for an emergency.

While I have yet to meet a zombie, I have been through a couple of power outages.

A “zombie apocalypse?” Is this for real? My tax dollars funding CDC nonsense? What’s next, Preparedness 102 – Mall
Ninja’s Unite? Give me a break.

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Finally, government spending I can support!

This is how rear admiral’s get to spend their time at the CDC? Writing garbage about a zombie apocalypse?

QUIT WASTING MY MONEY!

Only thing I’ve got to say is, double tap, baby.

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As a doctor, I applaud the CDC’s recognition of the potential danger a Zombie Apocalypse presents. This is a great first
step in the development of a National Emergency Response Plan and I encourage the CDC to continue to develop and
refine a comprehensive Zombie Apocalypse Response Plan! Good work & Keep up the fight!

One important point that is left out of many survival kit discussions is medicine expiration. A bottle of Ibuprofen
indicates *when* it expires, but not *how* it expires. If I take expired pills of a given medication, will it hurt me or just
not be effective? Evacuation packs are not updated frequently, and prescription medications cannot always be hoarded
— so there needs to be a way for people to figure out what expired meds are safe to take.
The virus is “solanum” not “selenium”. Selenium is an element. Auto-correct fail.

How could you forget a firearm from an emergency kit?

Really? I have to be the one to point out that selenium is an element in the periodic table and solanum is the zombie
virus?

Add “Cricket bat” to list.

Change plan to:

1) Go ’round mums.
2) Grab Liz.
3) Head over to the Winchester.
4) Have a cold pint.
5) Wait for this whole thing to blow over.

How’s that for a slice of fried gold?

Forgot the guns. Major caliber for preference, but a few thousand rounds through a .22 should stop a f for all your semi-
auto clean-up problems!air sized horde. Don’t forget spare clips (for bolt action rifles or M1
Garands and Magazines

this post makes me feel patriotic- like someone up there actually has an ear to the population, even if they are just
hearing a joke. much appreciated, CDC!

Thank you, if it takes Zombies to get the general public aware of disaster preparedness maybe you (the CDC/FEMA)
should use them in public service announcement spots during prime time.
Also though im sure that the Men and Women at the CDC are hard working Doctors and researchers and general all
around medical gurus im not too sure the cure rate you guys have is so high maybe 2 or 3 in 50 years or so and besides
everyone knows the only real cure for a Zombie is a bullet, or something into the brain matter

This makes me so happy inside that the CDC is finally preparing for this! I love this article, Is it alright if we post
something about this on our zombie website? Zombie Informer Also is it alright if we can use the badge you guys have?

Thanks and keep up the good work!

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fantastic! granted, zombies may be unlikely, but some viral rabies-like disease that causes similar symptoms is not all
that far-fetched.
I’ve been needing to get an emergency supply closet started. Maybe I’ll start adding an item or two on my grocery list
every week.
Thank you, CDC for a list to get started with.

the largest problem with this list is it doesn\’t mention anything to defend yourself, i\’m sorry to say but before you get
your hands on all the \”living essentials\” you\’ll need to get your hands on Weapons, both ammunition consuming and
non, I.E. baseball bats, golf clubs, ect. I would strongly recommend both a rifle and a pistol for both long range and close
range. Vehicles are also an essential, trucks preferably diesel that lasts the longest and is the least commonly used, and
pedal bikes for those involved in your escape plan.
One of the other biggest things to remember is you\’re on your own unless you have a preplanned group of people
involved, this could mean a friend, family, and/or both. Another is a refuge a camp in the middle of no where that a stock
pile of ammunition and \”living essentials\” would be located.

Joshua, yes feel free to use the badge that’s what it’s there for! And please, spread the word!

Thanks for reading.

It really depends on the zombies. If they’re Romero/Brooks, slow, lumbering zombies, a baseball bat will work just fine.
Not so if they’re the Zack Snyder fast zombies. Running zombies change everything.

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This might just actually spur me to make that emergency kid. CDC, you are made of awesome.

Guess I’ll stick to making an emergency kiT, since I’ve already made the emergency kid.
Yes. We are a prepping household. We also send our college students to school prepared with a ‘Two-week Emergency
Food Box’, A Flu Kit/Medical Kit and a 72 hour Kit is in each vehicle.

For High School graduation, we are now giving a Medical Kit and a Tool bag as gifts.

A ‘Card Catalog’ of resources to help the public get educated about being prepared for emergencies of all types:
http://www.EmergencyHomePreparation.org

sweetness.. all those yrs if reading.now if the cdc would just have practice drills in my area that would make my day. love
you cdc people..

Was this written on your dime or mine?

Not to be picky, but any way you can begin investigating BEFORE zombies actually are roaming the streets? Might cut
down on a few problems…

This is genius. Probably also appealing to a subset of the population that had never before thought of making an
emergency kit. Awesome.

“human corpse mysteriously reanimated to serve the undead” I’m not sure I trust someone who doesn’t do research. this
person doesn’t know anything about folklore, classic (or Romero), or modern zombies. Only the Return of the Living
Dead (John A Russo’s breed) eat brains.

Seriously, guys. Everyone knows that the refugee camp is the LAST place you want to go in the event of a zombie
apocalypse. Hasn’t experience taught us anything?

This is hilariously awesome and very well thought out. Have to spread this around!

Dear CDC,

If the popularity of this cute little article is enough to overload your servers, then what will happen when a real
emergency occurs and ppl cannot access your website for information. It looks like you are under prepared yourself.
Please fix that as soon as possible.

@mckenna You would be better off with a shotgun rather than a rifle when fighting zombies.

While I am a huge zombie fan, and well prepared for disaster, I must ask…

In a time when the Federal Government has a $14.3 Trillion debt, and cannot control spending, can you please post
exactly how much government employee and/or contractor time was used to create this entertaining but wasteful page
(including planning and approval), and how much it costs us (the taxpayer) in IT Services and support on expensive,
secured government equipment to maintain such pages on a annual basis?

It’s not that I don’t think that you did a great jobs, and I thank you for the laughs. I just want to know how much these
moments cost us.

And to address the issue of fighting off the living dead: The Zombie Combat Club

I have bad news, it is too late. Unfortunately all one has to do is look at Congress and the RNC and see that the Zombie
apocalypse has already started. The CDC should have acted sooner to prevent this travesty of nature, my only recourse
is a small hut in the valley in the Himalayan range where I can wait this out then work to repopulate the earth.

The Zombie Preparedness book is already out! : http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/zombiesurvivalguide/index2.html

The Zombie Survival Guide – Max Brooks – about as in depth as you can get!

Oh CDC, I am impressed.

Pure. Genius. 😀
We at Zombie Training have been training for years. I give the CDC a B+ for effort however.
But for the real deal check us out, we will educate your brain, not eat it.
http://www.zombietraining.com
You forgot to mention the necessary Kevlar body suit.

This is a great step towards defeating zombies as a potential threat. If every household would have these supplies, they
could hold out longer. There is a lot of good resources on the internet too about protection from zombies. I don’t think
any of them carry the same weight as the CDC though. Zombie Blog Keep up the good work CDC, you are awesome!

Does this mean that the Fema camps that are being prepared for us will be safe from the Zombies? So all of my supplies
that I have been storing for years are worthless…maybe I will just buy an AK47 and rig it with a powersaw just in case. Or
hell maybe if I take all the vaccines that merck is trying to inforce and become a zombie…you know what they say if you
can’t beatem join em. Oh, and Don’t look behind you right now…

Does this mean that the Fema camps that are being prepared for us will be safe from the Zombies? So does this mean all
of my supplies that I have been storing for years are worthless…maybe I will just buy an AK47 and rig it with a powersaw
just in case. Or hell maybe if I take all the vaccines that merck is trying to inforce I will become a zombie…you know what
they say if you can’t beatem join em. Oh, and Don’t look behind you right now…

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Is it true the CDC will shoot people per protocol who are deemed “infected” if they don’t follow directions and get in line?

Bats are good because they don’t run out of ammunition but machetes are much cheaper and can remove heads.

Kudos CDC, way to make us pay attention. I’m also gonna have to second Beatbox

What about weapons? Shouldnt I get a chain saw or something?

@Bo “Your tax dollars” paid for what might have been the most successful campaign for emergency preparedness
awareness in US history, bringing down the CDC server. Money well spent I’d say. Also, I’d like to see if you still scoff
when the zombie hordes are closing in on you.

The stuffy, over serious, CDC; has a sense of humor?

Given the choice, I would have believed in a “Zombie Apocalypse” first! 😉

The corpus of work on Zombie Apocali is abundantly clear: effective preparation requires extensive weaponry and large
structures that lend themselves to rapid fortification (such as a mall or other large building). Perhaps USAMRIID can offer
a companion publication to this guide? (given, of course, their access to tanks)

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Seriously though, thanks CDC for having a sense of humor on an otherwise important subject. It’s good to know
bureaucrats in DC aren’t all walking around like a bunch of…well…zombies.

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Such great advice. I also think the baseball bat is a necessary addition to this kit. I do wonder if the person who wrote
this is in need of an assistant? I would enjoy working for such a forward thinking and unique individual.

It’s nice to see you are finally telling people the truth about your fictional organization. You lie to the public about the
dangers of vaccines, about how safe fluoride is in our water, you use us a human guinea pigs in your experiments and all
the while push BIG PHARMA. I’ve always thought you were a joke, now I know it! If there are zombies it is because you
created them.

@Bo #16: Yes, we all know that writing a blog post about emergency kits takes at least 100 man hours and over 9000 tax
dollars and has nothing to do with public health matters.

Are you serious? 😀

I just bought Juggernog, hope it helps. Would add it to the kit.

The only thing more disturbing than the CDC posting this nonsense is the number of people who seem glad that they
did. Now I know how Bush was elected to two terms.
Now this is Government transparency we can believe in. While the CDC could safely lock themselves in the basement of
the CDC, they choose rather to education the American people to prepare themselves for the Zombie Apocalypse. It is
forward thinking people like the CDC (and of course Louisville Slugger) who will ensure the continuation of the human
race.

My hat is off to you CDC. Job well done!

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force. Our overall goal has been to raise awareness of not only zombie related threats but also emergency
preparedness. We urge every one to be prepared for any emergency and to always have a plan. I personally have a room
stocked and ready for the zombie apocalypse. I keep everything from water and non-perishable foods (mre\’s really
aren\’t bad if you get used to them) to various melee and ranged projectile weapons. Whether or not you believe in
zombies and the threat they pose this article stresses the importance or emergency preparedness which everyone
should take very seriously.

CDC – You just made government cool again. Applause for having the courage to actually do something creative to draw
interest to an important subject, disaster preparedness. Well Done! My favorite Zombie survival tip from Max Brooks –
First ascend the staircase, then destroy it.

I would like to thank the CDC, especially Rear Admiral Khan for this message.

Preparedness is a serious matter, and so are zombies.

What matters is that more people will be thinking about protecting their families in a pro-active manner.

stay vigilant!

Everytime you read the phrase ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ you should insert the words the CDC refuses to say: Radiation
Apocalypse.

Add the CDC to the list of ridiculous government/control organizations that must be ignored.

As a 17 year old boy, this article really appeals to me. Not only were ya able to get your message out for GENERAL
preparedness, you were able to appeal to a generation about zombie preparedness. You guys did a great job. Keep up
the good work.

Btw, we all know what \”isolation and quarantine\” mean. Everyone in major cities, evacuate immediately! haha

This. Is. EPIC! WIN!!!

I never understand why in all of these disaster preps no one in the government ever recommends including a basic
firearm. Katrina witht he loot gangs and rogue police officers is a prime example.

In all seriousness, if people have the means to prepare for an uncertain future, and they dont do it, then they are going
to be kicking themselves. It is a psychological term called “Normalcy Bias” that these people suffer from. Faced with all
the evidence, people would rather keep watching American Idol and Entertainment Tonight, then face the fact that
natural disasters can and do happen. I dont worry about things, because I prepare.

I cant believe it. They failed to mention firearms and amunition. Thats the basics when you leave any location for new
surroundings.

While this is all good basic information, the University of Florida officially posted their preparedness exercise a couple of
years ago. It has since been removed from the official site, but it is still available in pdf form from one of their
departments:

ZOMBIE ATTACK: Disaster Preparedness Simulation Exercise #5 (DR5)

What a great way to reach more people about emergency preparedness!

Seriously, you do need some sort of survival knife/saw/hatchet. A utility knife is just too weak. Our 72 hour kits includes a
small hatchet, saw and a knife.
James, thanks for reading! We have definitely been battling with server issues, but we do want to point out that the blogs
are on a different server than our main CDC pages so in the event of a real emergency we wouldn’t be dealing with a
system overload.

While we sort out current issues we’ve loaded the blog onto a temporary page, pass this URL along:
http://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp

Thanks for the comment.

Sorry, that kit is an epic fail. There’s nothing in it to deal with zombies who attack you. Nor is there anything in it to seal
the house.

They’ve also encouraged people to gather outside of their home in the event of a zombie apocalypse. This is a Bad Idea
™. If there are zombies in your house, there are zombies outside. You have fewer options for a good zombie defense
outside of a structure.

They also don’t identify good spots to use as rally points or evacuation centers. Or even good spots to hole up for a few
days to get your stuff together.

You’re also going to want a get out of dodge (GOOD) bag, as well as a GOOD plan (identify a rally point for those who are
part of your zombie survival group) and supplies to keep your vehicle running so you can get out of dodge.

The Zombie Survival Guide isn’t bad, but there’s some bad strategy in it, and it does nothing to address the breakdown of
societal order during the zombie apocalypse.

My husband always told me I wasn’t ready for a zombie apocalypse. Now I will be able to get ready. lol. Thanks. Way to
make emergency preparedness an interesting topic.

I think this is an excellent campaign for the CDC to breathe life back into disaster preparedness. I love the zombie theme
& think its timely, unique, and has plenty of shock factor to make it memorable and highly effective.

The levity behind this is something that will interest my teenage boys…something that is so hard to do in this day and
age(unless your a pixel, perhaps). Anyway, I really like this campaign, because it presents a disaster in a manner that I
can actually entice my family into discussion; and it will provide some assistance for any potential disaster as well.
Awesome job!

I think this is an excellent campaign for the CDC to breathe life back into disaster preparedness. I love the zombie theme
& think it’s timely, unique, and has plenty of shock factor to make it memorable and highly effective.

The levity behind this is something that will interest my teenage boys…something that is so hard to do in this day and
age(unless your a pixel, perhaps). Anyway, I really like this campaign, because it presents a disaster in a manner that I
can actually entice my family into discussion; and it will provide some assistance for any potential disaster as well.
Awesome job!

Worthless without a recommendation for a means of self defense. Does the CDC think that those mindless zombies with
a taste for living brains are going to leave everybody alone just because they are carrying a bag with a gallon of water
and a couple of sandwiches in it? Are zombies going to meekly scratch at the door and wait for somebody to come out to
check the mailbox? And are the cops really going to respond within a reasonable amount of time when the zombies are
chewing on your children?

What a waste of our tax dollars. It’s a shame that the childishness of the Obama administration has even infiltrated the
CDC.

I notice quite a few people posting about the usefulness of a baseball bat in the event of a zombie apocalypse. If you
read the Zombie Survival Guide, it explains with gruesome detail exactly what happens to the guy with the baseball bat.
It wasn’t pretty and now there’s a zombie with a baseball bat. In all seriousness, though, I think the biggest reason that
weapons weren’t addressed in this particular post was largely because it’s designed to be an all encompassing
emergency plan, not JUST for zombies. You’re not going to need a shotgun in a hurricane. You specifically. Yea, you, I see
you reading this post. You definitely don’t need a shotgun. Ever.

But yea, general purpose emergency plan. And it’s a joke. Just go with it. 😀
—Solego, Zombie Outbreak Response Team (ZORT) Member #42. Helena, MT.

so this is saying that there could posibly be a zombie apocalypse

To those posting that “this is a waste of tax dollars” I can only say that you yourself are a waste of tax dollars with your
incredible idiocy. Articles like this draw attention from a generation that would normally not consider emergency
preparedness. While I personally am a member of such a generation, the state I live in (Florida) makes it abundantly clear
that emergency preparedness is not something that should be taken lightly. While this article is somewhat light-hearted,
it draws proper attention by a demographic that would not normally think of such preparedness techniques. I certainly
hope those making statements like this are purely trolls sent over by Fox News as otherwise, you are imbeciles. An
article on preparedness without the word zombie would not attract the public eye as much as one that would. I, for one,
have never even been to the CDC website before today and this exact article lead me here, further proving my point and
allowing me to respond to your unwanted criticisms.

And to those saying weapons over essentials, it does not matter if you have a gun to fire or bat to swing if you don’t have
the strength to lift them due to muscle fatigue from dehydration or starvation. In a zombie-like scenario, bunkering is the
best strategy for the common person to survive given an adequate stash of supplies. Obviously, the standard, non-
couponing household will have a limited supply of up to a month (not considering fresh water) but a much longer supply
is needed to allow for basic zombie degradation (depending on region and population density). Weapons are more likely
needed against pillaging neighbors than from unwanted advances by the undead. Normally a strong offense is the best
defense but in a case of being extremely outnumbered, this is definitely not the best motto.

I thought this to be a culturally relevant and FUN way to express the importance of emergency preparedness. Obviously,
zombies are not real (yet) but the effect of disaster on infrastructure is very real. A good way to get an idea of how life
might be in the event of a widespread disaster is to look at how survivors in zombie horror movies… well.. survive. Their
first concern is often a safe haven… shelter. Then going up Maslow’s Hierarchy, they would likely seek food and water,
health, and eventually reconnection with civilzation. This is not much different if at all than those displaced by natural
disaster or affected by widespread disease.
For those of you worried about government spending, this blog was going to be written regardless of whether or not Dr.
Khan chose to use zombie apocalypse as an analogy for natural disaster/pandemic. The fact that you think this blog
costs extra demonstrates that you have probably not been to the blog before, which has been in existence for quite
some time now.
CDC asked Dr. Khan to make the topic of this blog about emergency preparedness and he did just that. Fortunately for
YOU, he decided to make it FUN and not boring. A blog that normally gets 3,000 hits over a period of weeks as received
50,000 hits in a matter of days.
Let’s quit making this a matter of politics and make it a matter of public health awareness and emergency preparedness,
which is exactly what it is.

Does the CDC normally work alongside religious professionals such as priests, ministers, and rabbis? It might be useful,
in case of a zombie apocalypse, to determine whether some form of holy water or exorcism might have any effect, or
whether that’s just vampires.

Ali, the real question is how does a resiliency framework hold up in the zombie attack?In this post self-sufficiency
remains an important component of the resilience framework, but how does the rest of the resilience framework hold
up in a zombie apocalypse.

everyone should get the zombie survival guild. 2 key things, 1. if you run up stairs destroy the stairs, and 2. swords don’t
jam or run out of bullets.

FIRST, THIS IS A WASTE OF MONEY, IT CANT BE JUSTIFIED!!!!!!!!

SECOND, IM AN RN AND HAVE USED THE CDC’S SITE NUMEROUS TIMES HOW CAN MY PTS WITH AN ALTERED MENTAL
STATUS OR LOW IQ USE YOR SITE FOR BASIC INFO..
THIRD, I SERIOUSLY QUESTION SOMEONES INTEGRITY AT THE CDC “”””””””you are not a govt agency FOR COMIC RELIEF”””’
FINALLY, I GAVE MY EMAIL SOMEONE PLEASE ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY THIS WASTE OF MONEY,GOVERNMENT RESOURCES,
AND MY TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

I agree with the CDC that being prepared for an emergancy is top priorty, but what i dont think anyone relizes is how real
this could be. so many zombie movies and books, its only a matter of time till somebody creates such a virus that will
make the zombie apocalyose more than just a hollywood blockbuster idea. We all must be prepared for natural disaters
but i believe the undead walking the earth will be a glorious day for us zombie hunters.

How do I find out about my Local Zombie Responce team? If I dont have one how do I start one?

Well done CDC. Don’t worry about the critics complaining about tax money and such… They’re already zombies. If I may
suggest:
1. Don’t go out at night.
2. Try to avoid crowded areas.
3. Try not to draw attention.
Hooray for the MIW (men in white)!
Thanks again CDC.

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Well friends I am sad to say that there is noone to talk about with this subject… It’s depressing when the ones closest to
you say that you look like a fool for something such as this to happen… Well all I can say is that I will be ready if and
when this does happen…

Kudos CDC!
A large part of your function is advertising and education to increase the public awareness. This particular advertising
scheme was pure genius.
You can’t buy the kind of buzz generated across the Net and media by this innovative approach. THANK YOU for
leveraging my tax dollars. (Also for helping me plan to survive the zombies)

Hahahahahaha this is real? Omg! 😀 Yay! xD

Don’t forget to add salt to your emergency zombie kit. Helps fend off the zombies, and makes your food tasty!

this is not cool stop being stupid and get prepared of this and also buy a bat just in case.

none

I have a “ditch” bag, with the fix all for just about every possible scenario I could think of. I have divvied it between my
primary bag, and a secondary “scout” bag, which is light weight. I have means of protection for my companions and I,
too.

I would hate to see it happen, but I would survive; guaranteed.

What a great idea! Would have never looked up an article about emergancy preparation had it not been approached this
way. Love it and glad to know how to get prepared! Thank you!

lol. So many kids today really get hyped up for teh zombie appocalypse… Yeah i’ll admit that running around killing
zombies without having to worry about going to prison sounds alright to me to at first anyway.
But what happens when you run out of, say, toilet paper or tooth paste and there’s no one to make more. Think of all the
little things, you enjoy and take for granted. Now would you really enjoy it when you’ve gotten sick of the reality of
zombies… The world would literally stink like rotting flesh.
Another thing is that zombies wouldn’t be the only thing you have to look out for. There would be roving bands of living
thinking humans whom, without the threat of law, would be more than happy to rape and kill you just to take what you
have, and to enjoy whatever sick twisted fantasy they cook up on the spot.

Suddenly A Zombie Appocalypse doesn’t sound so Awsome.

kudo’s to the cdc!! I think it was a WONDERFUL idea by you doing this! It’s just like everything else out there, you have to
be unique and CREATIVE to get your POINT accross!! AND YOU WANT IT TO GET ACCROSS TO ALL AGE GROUPS!! And
😉
apparently ya’ll did!! MAJOR kudo’s!!!!!!!

What is this? have you lost your mind? zombies? this on a cdc site. your fucking crazy.

LMFAO

I love the idea of linking preparedness with current pop culture and getting the message out through social media. I
think that most folks will take the humor in it to prepare their own family plan. However, I am really disturbed by the
photo used on the opening tag – to me, the photo depicts a an ultra paranoid person who some may construe as “over-
thinking” and having delusional thoughts about preparedness. This photo may also lead viewers to leap to the
conclusion that folks with phobias and delusions are the ones who may take preparedness seriously. I was also
disturbed by the photo showing the dirty fingernails, which again led me to think that the person in the image wasn”t
grounded in reality, or taking care of themselves. I don’t believe this is the type of image CDC should be promoting when
we promote healthy people through preparedness and prevention. I am also concerned that there may be some
negative feedback from the religious community who may give the Agency negative feedback by the linking of Zombies
to preparedness. Many religions associtate Zombies to Satanic worship, and this linkage may relfect somewhat badly on
the Agency. I hope it doesn’t in the long run, because I can see the fun in it for the younger generation who loves this
type of pop culture association. Please consider changing the main photo on the tag to something that folks wouldn’t
associate with paranoid or delusional thoughts or self-neglect. Thanks.

The first thing you need is a suit of armor so if you had to you could fist fight your way out

But you forgot to mention for preparation for a real zombie apocalypse, we have to be armed to the teeth! But its
probably not very responsible of the CDC to encourage weaponizing the United States citizens…

One essential omission from the CDC’s writeup: There are few better protections in the event of a zed infestation than an
original Real Deal Brazil recycled-tarp, the same incomparable headwear seen atop zombie-killer-king Woody Harrelson’s
own noggin throughout the 2009 hit film “Zombieland.” The hats’ heavy tarp is tough to bite through, especially for
lumbering members of the mindless, brains-crazed undead. So make sure your own emergency kit isn’t sorely lacking in
this most-fundamental of protections — because once the zombies rise up from their newly gaping graves, online mail-
order may be a bit limited. Act now, while you’re still alive enough to manage it …

ok, a few things i wanna clarify:

1. Sanitation and Hygiene – Why bother? You’ll be running all lover the place trying to escape, why care about how clean
your teeth or hair is? (sure the towels will come in handy if you get zombie brains splattered all over you after bashing
them with a baseball bat)

2. Clothing and Bedding – Why would you need clothing? just wear the stuff on your back, if you need clothing, just break
into an abandoned clothing store and grab some more duds.

3. Important Documents – Dont bother with all this stuff, its a zombie apocalypse, the first thing youll be thinking is
getting out of there alive, just take whatever you got in your wallet and book it. (Driver’s license, ID Badge, credit card,
etc.)

also, you left out one thing:

well, there you go, a “correct” list of what to take with you and how to defend yourself in a Zombie apocalypse. Hope this
helps you all.

Now i think that the CDC has gone crazy. If someone is dead that means their body organs stop functioning and the
brain controls everything you do and the heart provides the blood for the brain to function correctly and if if the heart
stops then the brain stops and can not be made functional again because no blood means that your body cant do
anything. Zombies are pure fiction, the dead cant rise and chase us because the bodies have probably decayed and
when you die you DIE and nothing can bring you back. Now that is fact and zombies are fiction.Its common sense.

This campaign wasn’t just an amusing way to advertise disaster preparedness. It was a test of the CDC servers, which
could well have failed if this had been a real emergency. I would hope that CDC has learned something from this and
taken steps to support sudden and massive traffic spikes.

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Thanks for reading our blog and posting a comment. We did learn a lot about our blog servers during this campaign,
however we would like to note that:

Blogs.cdc.gov, which is CDC’s blog server, is located on a server outside of our primary Website. CDC’s primary Web
servers that house CDC’s health information, outbreak information and emergency information are protected by a
caching service that allows our servers to handle dramatic increases in traffic. CDC is prepared to handle large volumes
of Web traffic that may result in public health emergency.

Rest assured that during a real emergency CDC.gov would be ready.

Thanks again!

Great Information! The CDC is on the right track with this campaign… It brought a lot of awareness to an important
subject… Whoever thought it up should get a raise!!!

The existence of the tact taken in writing this blog proves one thing: The zombie apocolypse is already here, and the
brain-dead have already been re-animated at the CDC.

Just have to say, the basic preparation that the CDC is giving us, is more than adequate in any fall down of the earth. You
need your basic materials just to survive and if say a tsunami hit us, we would be prepared with the necessary supplies
to survive. The CDC is only telling us what we should already know and have set up for when the world is taken over by
zombies or by each other.

wait is this real or a joke

Wow I know this will be so exiting so I cant wait this to happen.

I have been prepared for a zombie outbreak ever since I first watched Shawn of the Dead. I can’t tell you all of the details
(confidentiality stuff) but I could share a few tips that could potentially save your life.

Tip 1: As we have learned from zombies in movies, games, and books. Zombies are attracted towards sound (gunshots,
explosions, car alarms, etc…) so my first tip is: STAY QUIET.
Tip 2: Large groups will slow you down and will raise the chances that the disease will infiltrate your group and within
days the whole gang will be undead. On the other hand wandering around by yourself in post apocalyptia will leave you
vulnerable and lonely, which can be death sentences around the living dead. So tip #2? STAY IN A SMALL TO MEDIUM
SIZED GROUP. 4-8 people is the ideal number for survival in a Zombie scenario. But your group can’t just be the first 8
people that you see, make your group before the outbreak strikes. Make sure that each individual has something to
bring to the table, whether it’s electronic know how, or is a dead aim. And most importantly, make sure that you get
along well with each person in the group so that there is no fighting within the group. Teamwork is ESSENTIAL in a
zombie outbreak.

Tip 3: This is a tip that is often overlooked in zombie games/movies. HYGIENE. Keeping yourself clean will help fight off
things like flu, the common cold, pink eye, pretty much anything that you could sick from before the zombiepocolypse
you can get sick from after the zombiepocolypse. So make sure to brush your teeth, clean your clothes, and wash behind
your ears!

Tip 4: You never know how long it will be during the zombie outbreak before you can restock supplies such as water,
food, ammo, or medicine. So Tip 4 is STOCK UP SUPPLIES. You may need to stock up supplies for as long as 1-6 months.
Running out of food, medicine, ammo, etc… will cripple any chances you have at long term survival in a zombie
apocalypse.

Tip 5: What’s the worst thing that can happen to you during a zombie outbreak? Well other than the obvious (infection)
the answer is: depression. Depression will lower your immune system, cause stress, and cause you to be tired
constantly. So Tip 5 is KEEP UP YOUR SPIRITS. I know that it would be hard to not be depressed when your friends and
family have been turned into flesh eating zombies, but you need to try your hardest to keep up a light attitude.

Those are my tips. I have more but I’m starting to get tired of typing. So I hope this helps for when the Zombpocolypse
hits.

I have been preparing for this day for a long time im glad others are taking it seriously lest our entire civilization be
wiped out when they rise. My biggest concern is fresh water, where to find it how to keep it drinkable and how long will
the water supply be down if we DO avoid armageddon at the hands of the zombie hordes.

I heard about this article via an NPR “All Things Considered” piece and just *had* to come and look.

What a creatively comical way to address a number of issues – bravo! A little levity does go a long way, and using popular
culture to facilitate thinking about preparedness was innovative.

Thanks for the article – as a Florida resident, I’ll be sure to pack an extra bottle of water in case “waves of zombies” follow
hurricanes and flooding!
P.S. To those complaining “is this for real” and “wasting tax dollars,” PLEASE do us ALL a favour next time and read the
article BEFORE you post your comment. It’s very evident from your uninformed post that you did NOT even read CDC’s
article, which is REALLY about disaster preparedness, PERIOD. Spoil sports!

I have had a zombie invasion readiness kit in my vehicle for awhile now. I’m glad this article was posted as maybe more
people will keep emergency supplies at hand…if not for a zombie apocalypse, then for more frequently occurring
everyday disasters. Being stranded without supplies sucks, zombies or not!!!

Can I have the the movie rights please.

glad the government is finally admitting that they created zombies and are using them for secret drug testing. although
it alarms me that they released this information as it means that zombie shave escaped the secret island on which they
were held

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Yup, too bad this is impossible, and it would end too quickly for anyone to even care, considering how there’s nothing to
control a dead body, maybe a type of rabies that makes people go insane? But not zombies, here’s my explanation.

I think it’s ridiculous that you’ve posted this! You have made your agency a joke. How could anyone take this seriously? I
think I’m more than prepared after watching countless zombie movies. Maybe you should keep your focus on real life
disasters and refrain from commenting on science fiction!

U HAVE TO BE FREAKING KIDDING ME!!!!!!! WHAT IS THIS CRAP?! THE CDC DIDN’T HAVE ANYTHING MORE IMPORTANT TO
TALK ABOUT. I DON’T BELIEVE IT AND I NEVER WILL!

The best zombie apocalypse survival guide show is the Walking Dead, and in the seasons last episode, we saw how
valiantly the CDC kept up the efforts. Good job, guys.

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Thank you CDC, the person in charge of this add was thinking outside the box. It seem as if most government agencies
try to avoid this type of thinking.
I know your sight must have had a lot of hits, and more people are now thinking of being prepared for some type of
disaster. Even if it is not a Zombie attack they might be more perpared for an earthquake or any other type of disaster.
Thanks again, Herman Garcia, Captain,U.S.Forest Service

Wow! Its true we should be ready for any natural disasters…But the “Scary” part is the zombie’s…Can it really happen? I
think it wouldnt happen if well humans took care of Earth more often and there was less polution and nucleor weapons
out there…Less of the things that shouldnt be here like cars and stuff that arent healthy for the planet we practically
poison our own planet every year…People Recycle and start living a Healthy Life Style…Before its too late…I dont want to
be Zombie food…

in addition to zombie preparedness, we must also prepare for suburban ninja armies and the batmen…oh for goodness
sake, why did there have to be batman platoons?

I am surely not too accustomed to this subject matter but I do prefer to check out blogs for layout tips and intriguing
topics. You honestly described a matter that I in most cases really do not care a great deal about and manufactured it
highly fascinating. This is a nice blog that I’ll be aware of. I currently bookmarked it for future reference.

It really angers me to see people complaining about there money being a waste as it goes to places such as the CDC. Can
you not read between the lines?! This article isn’t solely for the preparedness of zombies, but this can help us in any
emergency. DUH. Most people aren’t prepared when a hurricane, tornado, earthquake, or even power outage hits. This
list aids in the survival of any of those things, does it not? It’s basically a friendly reminder of the ways you can prepare
yourself for ANYTHING. Stop being whiney. And by the way, it’s up to you to procure a firearm in case of a zombie
apacolypse… but keep it out of your children’s hands…

wooden bats r better less ware down over a period of time aluminum will dent and ware down…

Let me be the first to say: Bravo! I totally agree; until I saw the word Zombie, I was not interested in how to prepare for
an emergency. Although we do have plans in place (I say this loosely) we would have to scramble around looking for all
of our stuff! So once again, I will thank you for having me look at this in a totally different way! And be better prepared…

Obviously you guys are missing the point. its not about a zombie attack. i mean in my opinion that would be pretty fun,
but its about preparing for natural disasters as they mention like every other sentence.
So as someone said before its a way to attract peoples attention and awareness of what to do if a natural disaster
happens. The most common ones that CDC mentioned were hurricanes and tornadoes.

And about wasting money i dont really know what your talking about any person with any common sense could write
this, all it takes is a little of time. so dont worry your tax dollars are safe.

But if some disease ever came to infect people on earth creating any sort of zombie like apocalypse, i would recommend
reading “The Zombie Survival Guide” by Max Brooks. It provides some really helpful information which can also be used
for natural disasters. One thing that they forgot to mention was a portable generator or portable propane gas oven, this
is very helpful for cooking canned food or disinfecting water when your on the move.

One more thing STAY AWAY FROM PITTSBURGH! for some reason people would all come to pittsburgh just because
george romero lives there…

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The Zombies have asked that we all refrain from using the Z word. It has very negative connotations and feel it hurts
there cause.

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I think this is awesome, using humor to actually teach something. If it can work in the class room why cant it work for a
government agency.

to all you critics “limber up” and grow a sence of humor

Thanks CDC

Is there any scientific or factual evidence that could possibly explain how a zombie apocalypse or why a zombie
apocalypse might occur. This whole article will just send people panicking over something they shouldn’t be worrying
about, but rather worry about something much more real and possible such as a tornado, earthquake, or any other kind
of probable natural disaster. I don’t believe in the typical Hollywood zombie, and until given factual and solid scientific
evidence explaining how and why this would occur, I refuse to acknowledge this as a valid warning, but rather a frivolous
blog post that will only stoke the fire of zombie fanatics and believers. While I respect their opinions, as they are entitled
believe whatever they may want to, scientifically based or not, it is a bit annoying when the CDC posts something that
lacks proper support on a logical and scientific field.

Most zombies dont eat brains they eat the liveing flesh not brains

I say…useful information 😀 thanks CDC!

Zombies dont just eat brains a true master of zombie know it all would know that. I cant believe there are still folks out
there that believe that just because they are zombies they automatically just go for the brain, because really they go for
whatever they can sink their teeth into. Whats next your also going to say that they also go around screaming BRAINS,
BRAINS! Why dont you go and get up to date on your zombie info because god knows you reallly need it.

I think we should refrain from bashing the folks who ask things like “Is this for real?” or “How many of MY tax dollars
were wasted?” Clearly these unfortunate individuals are lacking a functioning sense of humor (whether they were born
that way, or whether the deficiency was acquired through some tragic accident). Can you imagine going through life
without the ability to discern and enjoy all things funny? What small, sad lives they must lead! I feel sorry for them. They
deserve our pity.

I loudly applaud your approach! I have been screaming/teaching “out of the box” thinking to improve the culture with
infection prevention to give the information that is needed to those who normally avoid the subject and the people who
are associated with it. It works! My hat off to you!

Is the CDC stupid!? Telling people to worry about having their papers ready to present to the government, but leaving the
most important thing out of post-disaster survival? Which would be having a means to defend yourself from looters,
government soldiers (post martial law, as in hurricane katrina) trying to force you to concentrated locations to be under
their control, and of course zombies. If there is any such disaster similar to the one described above, my first thing in the
list of my survival kit is my AK . The survival kit above looks like something some girl-scout or gay feminist would have,
not a true survivalist. Guns are good in all disasters not only for defense from looters and other enemies, but good for
hunting and putting food on the table.
I think the reason they left out guns, is because it is typical of the U.S. government to be anti-American and against our
rights, they don’t like the idea of us being armed.

hey, is this serious??

I’m not north america… I’m in Brazil, and CDC warning for a “zombie” attack seems too metaphorical for me… not to say
a real JOKE, or even TOTAL FAKE…
Is zombies just a fiction or american centres of technology have developed chemicals for turning humans into monsters?

Great piece. My only suggestion is that in the history section, you should give a shout-out not only to “The Walking Dead”
(as a previous commenter did) but to The Strain Trilogy by Guillermo “Pan’s Labyrinth” del Toro and Chuck “The Town”
Hogan. First two of the books (“The Strain” and “The Fall”) are already out–third one arrives this October. The heroes are
epidemiologists from the CDC–woot! Give yourselves a hand!

Oh, and reminding us about general emergency preparedness? That’s cool, too.

lol and alll my friends were like”theres no zmbies! the got. would know!” well now they do, dont look so crazy now do i?

“most people worry if they left the stove on, i worry about the zombie apocalypse
(>.<)

What about animals I have five horses and five dogs to think about and I aint never leaving them even if I had to die in
the process!

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For all of you people complaining about the government spending money on zombies, you are missing the point.

The idea is to get the attention of people who would otherwise not prepare for REAL, ACTUAL emergencies. By getting
the attention of people and getting them to seriously think about an emergency kit, this is going to save lives and SAVE
YOU MONEY.

Got it?

Great job CDC!!

Doesn’t our ignorant government have anything else to worry about?? Typical bureaucratic bull. Get a real f&#&$#* job

add Cricket bat to the list. really effective!

Using the threat of a “zombie apocalypse” is a clever way to help people understand how to prepare for a disaster.
Unlike a single event, being a natural disaster, widespread illness, chemical or biological weapons atack, a zombie
apocalypse forces people to see emergency preparedness from a more global standpoint. In any survival situation you
must have food, water, shelter & protection. However, if a zombie apocalypse were to occur, you would not only have to
have the supplies to survive but would also have to have the ability to protect the supplies & your family. Most likely you
would need to have enough supplies to allow yourself to be self contained for a minimum of 3 months & then have a
plan for either how to procure, make, grow or produce your own supplies. Regardless of your take on “zombies”, this is a
great way to look at emergency preparedness & survival. Kudos to the CDC!

People really…….stop complaining about the cdc wasting your money….Bush did plenty of that way before this article
was written.

As a mom with 2 teens that love the zombie culture, have just attended their first zombie walk in Boston and are both
playing left for dead right now……

this blog article is perfect…i read it to them while they were waiting for a next level in the game to load and then read
them the funny comments…they LOVED it and it immediately prompted a discussion on what we would do if an
emergency happened and what we need to have in the house to survive not only a zombie invasion but ANY emergency!

GREAT JOB ON PULLING IN THEIR GENERATION!

Ive never visited until now and its because my sister told me that someone told her this article was here…and im gonna
tell. Others and my kids have already texted their friends…so how can it be a bed thing?? Look at how many people will
take being prepared more seriously.
What a great idea! I love it: 221 years is never too late for the US government to learn that humor is an effective
communication tool!

Im already ahead of u cdc!! 🙂

blaaarrrggghh

okay what if zombies over run the world and the CDC has no plan for that what then hmmmm. ??????

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And to think this is the same organization that banned prairie dogs as pets back in 2003. Sad, VERY SAD!

To Bo, who was bitching about his tax dollars at work…first I doubt you have a job so don’t worry about “your tax dollars”
second I thought it was a great way to get the idea of making home emergency kits out to everyone including horror
geeks.

Bravo to the creators of a disaster preparedness guide that will not only be read with enthusiasm, it will be forwarded
and shared in the social networks

You guys do realize the cdc only did this to raise natural disaster awareness. They discovered that after after the word
zombie appeared on twitter the audience spiked. Unfortunately, for sometime, they were so successful that the page
crashed and were rendered ineffective.

Even thou you joke about this subject be aware of the problems around us. not everyone is smart as you can see. but in
fact in the 1940s the Russan govt. did devop. a toxin that could do as this blog said. Study your history my friends.

i see everything from ppl hating this to people quoting funny movies. the event however unlikly you may think it is,
should be taken seriously. the key to survival in this situation or any other is being prepared. may i suggest max brooks’
book the zombie survival guide…start there.

I’m taking this as it is. A warning of a Zombie Apocalypse!!!! It’s coming and I don’t care which one of you is standing in
front of me all zombied out! I will end you as fast as any other zombie!

Thanks for the question Sissy. Pets are an important part of your emergency plan. Make sure to include food and water
for your animals when putting together your emergency kit (and any additional supplies like medicine or toys). When
planning your evacuation route, you should make alternate housing arrangements for your pets in advance, since pet-
friendly shelters may not be available during the emergency period. Identifying pet boarding facilities that are located
along your evacuation route and outside of the danger zone are important steps to ensuring your pets will have a safe
place to go. When evacuation orders are issued, you should call the boarder to ensure that they have availability. Here’s
a useful checklist for your pets on Ready.gov, FEMA’s website for emergency preparedness.

Thanks for reading!

I’d like to know why everyone thinks that theyd be trying to survive. With the likely percentage of infection across the
land in all the scenarios we imagine, theres a 99% chance that youll be a zombie too!! what makes you think that it
couldnt “happen to me?” why would you ASSUME that youll be fighting them? chances are youll be stumbling and
moaning as well. have fun. ill try to. im at least gonna be a fashionable zombie. Ill wear a hat or something.

Well intersting, whats the CDC not telling us ???? My emergency kit is already made though.

First, I think that some of these people who are upset that taxpayer dollars are funding this are just angry, hostle
individuals who probably are the “rich” and can’t see the purpose behind this whole thing.

Now, I work in EMS in CA., so we here understand Emergency Preparedness in the form of floods, earthquakes, and fires.
But, we as a people can’t underestimate the fact that people do have disease that walk among us, and this could be a
true situation. No matter what it is, although Zombies might be a stretch (you notice I’m not saying there is no way that
this could happen), we still need to be prepared for any disaster.

Use your common sences. If someone walks up to you, looks like death warmed over, your not going to stick around and
find out if they are dead, your going to kill it and run. Just like a flood. If there is warnings that your house is going to float
away, you better get your stuff and leave.
CDC is going to find out about any diseases that is going on and help the population. This whole thing is to let people
know to be prepared. So just do it.

Thank you CDC.

Really people? really? This is the Most outrageous thing i have ever heard….good grief,really?I am saying this as i am
sucking in air and rolling my eyes around….unbeleivably the most stupidous thing I have ever heard and these are grown
people saying this. ..let me just say…if this does happen it IS satans demons that are th zombies and all Gods children
have been called to heaven…get a life !!

I absolutely loved this post! I’m one of those people who believe that anything is possible in this day and age, including a
zombie apocalypse! The tips you provided are great and I’m going to start getting my emergency kit together asap. I’m
going to also add, per commenter Donovan Young, an aluminum baseball bat to my kit as well. Cause we all know to get
away you might have to take some zombies out!

Thanks to CDC for this useful article,

(although some stupid ppl would just laugh and make fun of it …)

i think one vital item is missing in the emergency kit, and that is “Portable water purification tool”,(working on battery,
with ultra-violet effect which disinfects water and prepares it for drinking )

also if the bag, be a “Solar Power Charger Bag”, would be very good, since it can supply enough charge for our electric
stuff (radio, cellphone, torch, ….) durig daytime sunshine.

thanks again for your super article 😉

well zombies are a little far fetched but look at 1918 flu , people scared to go out of there homes . but who knows ???? a
lot of strange thing are happening now i would hide in the basement first for a few days with food an water an others
thing said here but not only a am fm radio but a two way cb radio an a small tv with batterys cell phone s might not work
but keep both don’t forget lights an matches an candles an can openers non electric propane stove camping gear
sleeping bags an gloves an rope and nails an wood to borad up windows if a zombies should get thu an some gas cans
full of gas somewhere you can get to it an extra set of keys to a car no time to hot wire a car if a zombie is at the door , or
the cdc say lets go !!! now!!!!

i really feel sorry for all of the morons who keep asking how much it cost the taxpayers to make this article because the
entire goal of the article is to address emergency preparedness in general. kind of a focus with all of the tornadoes,
floods, and other natural disasters happening on a regular lately. get a sense of humor guys………

but be real. i highly doubt that anyone wouldnt know what to do in a zombie outbreak. alot of people discuss it as
entertainment.

the goverment has been the evil undead for years now. now that we may have a zombie invasion maybe more people
will see this and finally put some one in charge who can actually do something for the country. but all they want to do is
tax us to death,reallytheydont want our brains, just our money.

Very well written. What a genius way to get people interested! Other government agencies need to take note that this is
exactly how you get potentially boring but extremely important information out to the masses. I honestly can’t believe
some people are taking this at face value and completely missing the point that this is the CDC’s way of getting people’s
attention about disaster preparedness. Got your attention, no? But please, while the rest of us are being vigilant and
preparing for any number of possible emergency situations, you go on and keep complaining about where your tax
dollars are going. That’s what matters, after all.

I think this is a great idea. Although I see tax dollars being spent like Bo said in his post, I however see it being spent in a
good way. And to be honest, I did see a bunch on Ninjas hanging out at our local mall last week.

ok guys i highly dout that this will really is going to happen. but if it did it would be soooooo awsome

Really guys??? zobie invasion??? Wow.

i really wanna know where i can get cdc publications like posters and handouts for this subjectfor me and some of my
friends to have
I wish the CDC would politely & publically recognize the reasonable necessity of citizens being sufficiently armed so that
they may better protect their precious & limited emergency supplies from those who would dispossess them of same &
likewise increase the victim’s chances of survival during serious disasters such as the zombie apocalypse the CDC posits
here. For without weapons the unarmed victims are easy prey for the armed predators who will be equally, if not more
so due to lack of adequate forethought & preparation, as desperate to survive as the typical American family of four.

Every one the CDC will try so will other agencies. But no use all would be over run, they would have to leave lavatories
and camps, we have hope. But we have no hope on other but are selfs and the people who r with us.

I wasent sure about zumbies but yes I allways prepare with food in cans watter, medicine and tools like lamps radios cell
phones, and not just me but allway try to tell my family to be in case of an emergency for any kind of dessaster.

Are you guys seriously a GOVERNMENT INSTITUTION?!?!? Was the site hacked? I can’t believe this is what the government
wastes its time on! ZOMBIES?!?!?!? really? I mean, people can’t come back from the dead! And, if it were a disease, it
would be immediately quarantined upon notice by paramedics. I hope whoever wrote this was fired!

I forgot!
Thanks CDC
It’s about time a government agency told the truth.
Even though you had to do it in what others call a silly scenario or a waste of taxpayer money.
I thought it was brilliant using a Hollywood Zombie scenario since so many are brainwashed with Hollywood these days.
Just another sad truth about our world today

I should have been a fiction writer huh?

I wonder if I could get a job on the scifi network?
Heres another scenario.

The Earth falls out of orbit because of a huge meteor storm from the breakup of a distant planet and it’s just enough
trama to our belt to cause severe storms and solar tsunamis.
This creates panic because the tsunamis shut off all electrical power in the world.
They cause further devastation because crops die and people start starving.
All life in the oceans is wiped out from the poison that was growing on the broken planet and that starts stinking all over
the world big time.
Causing disease and pestilence. People start looking at each other as food.
Thus the Zombie scenario again. Not as elaborate as my first scenario but another good example of what could happen
to make a zombie scenario a reality.

Great Job, CDC!

It’s nice to know that while the CDC has done virtually nothing about my illness, Chronic Fatigue Immune Disfunction
Syndrome, and millions are suffering, they are fully prepared for a zombie attack…. and have the time to write an
indepth article about it…on my tax dollars. Way to go guys. Great PR to restore your tarnished credibility. ( NOT!)

People needs to realize this is to get younger crowds to prepare for an emergency, if you notice every bullet point says
“like a hurricane or like some other natural disaster.”

cool i’m ready for the zombies!!!

you all say you’re gonna be prepared for a zombie apocalypse. Other disasters you can, but not zombies. no matter
what, people would never be truly ready for the trauma caused by seeing a friend or family member, someone you love
with eyes clouded over and wounds you know they didnt survive moving towards you. it would be hard to kill(or re-kill)
something wearing their skin. there is only so much the human mind can take before breaking, and if it doesnt get you
immediately it will get you eventually. if it starts either kill yourself (cowardly in most cases but respectable here) or, in a
futile attempt, fight to the last. and if you do try to get out (still respectable) then stay out of large groups, people can be
liabilities, and if you must i say 2 at least, 4 max. people can be liabilities because sometimes they can be more
dangerous then a zombie, the line between sanity and madness is thin.

It’s SYFY!

Hollywood is getting ready to start filming World War Z now. I am sure that movie will be a welath of information!

I had no idea the cdc website could be so much fun!!!

wow, I love this, it is wonderful to know what to do if zombies happen.

well i read many of the comments some people do not get that the CDC is just using this as a main-stream media way of
informing people.. i myself just love seeing ZOMBIE APC. on the CDC website.. thx..

Ignore the naysayers. they don’t get it. I have a 19 year old son. We are in California, waiting for ‘the big one’. I could not
get him- or his friends- interested in the Earthquake kit until now. Bravo! More! More!

I beleive for starters, everyone should watch Zombieland. It puts out some good useful pointers. Next, the outcome of
there actually being a zombie apocalypse is unprobable, sadly i do say so. I wish there could be one…. We will see what
we can do about this 🙂
I’m ready for zombie emergency, as long as they don’t all break into the “thriller” – I haven’t mastered those moves yet…

I don’t suppose the CDC has gotten T-shirts printed up yet? 🙂

Seriously, all of you people on the thread complaining about the CDC wasting tax dollars on making a “Zombie
Apocalypse Prepardness Guide” don’t get the actual reason they posted it. Given what happened in Katrina, Japan, and
more recently, down South, people are usually caught unawares by Nature and all her fury and don’t know how to keep
themselves alive until help arrives. All of this is just basic emergency survival know-how that the average American can
use to protect themselves against REAL emergencies. The use of Zombies is a way to garner attention from the public
who would probably ignore this if it were a typical hurricane or earthquake survival guide and it is going to save lives,
and taxpayer money, in the end when more people read this and follow these basic steps. Please stop being so ignorant
and just be happy that someone in the government has at least a sense of humor.

I have been practicing for a zombie apocolypse, as in (routes, safe havens, safety packs, weapons, and advantage points.)
I have a group together called NZRS ro (Nevada Zombie Response Squad) We will take them all down!

i can’t believe anyone would think of this article as a waste of government money. This might be the only way to get lazy,
media-crazed teenagers such as myself to think about being prepared for a disaster. in other words, DOWN WITH THE
ZOMBIE-HATERS!!

OK!

Can the CDC Post a Preparedness plan for the Total Collapse of the Dollar? Should we be part of a co-op farm outside
the city in order to afford food??

Will a year of food be enough?

OK, I get the whole “emergency plan” and its value. But seriously ZOMBIE?! I felt my intellect declining the more I read. As
a member of a disaster response team, I take this matter more seriously then the majority of you “gamers” and “movie
guru’s”. Whats next, a vampire apocolypse?! What a waste of tax dollars…please tell me there isnt a doctor in the world
that would endorse or research the possibility of this “stupid” event of ever occurring. As if the CDC has nothing better to
address than impossible and fictional events. On the otherhand, it looks as if, I may be wrong…there are mindless
ZOMBIES reading and believing this garbage! Glad my fellow Americans have their priorities straight, no wonder we are
going down the tubes!!!! AND GEEZE…I get it, you hate Republicans, stop using every media opportunity to make it
politics….PSSSST “ITS NOT REAL!”

It took some guts, not to mention BRAINNNNSSSSSS, for the CDC to approach disaster preparedness is such a fun way.

Kudos, CDC, for devising a clever way of bringing attention to a topic most people don’t want to think about!

I am so ready for a zombie attack. I think it is cool other than all your friends and family and possibly even you dying.
Most people think it will never happen, but guess what people it may not happen in your life time but it will happen
sometime.

IF YOU WANT TO LEARN TO SURVIVE DURING A ZOMBIE ATTACK OR EPIDEMIC THEN GO OUT AND BUY THE BOOK “THE
ZOMBIE SURVIVAL GUIDE COMPLETE PROTECTION FROM THE LIVING DEAD” IT HAS EVERYTHING YOU NEED. THE BOOK
IS BY MAX BROOKS.

Brilliant! What a wonderful application of social marketing to encourage preparedness among individuals who might not
have actually considered it prior to the article.
Public Health discussions are now taking place among entirely new populations, including youth, gamers, and others. By
framing the discussion in a manner that appeals to this group, important information is delivered, understood and acted
upon.

As an added bonus, my children now think my pursuit of a DrPH is actually cool.

Thanks, CDC!! I only wish I’d thought of this first!!!

Now think it throu all those people that are just doing this because its the only thing they know, i mean come on a
zombie apocolypse?? HA mabey in your dreams but if its true then all i can say is dont be foolish cause they are people
with souls so every one that you kill spends all eternity in HELL.do you want to be one of them,, to spend eternity in HELL
i mean come on you know.just think about it.

My health teacher just assigned a brochure on safety to make. I think I just found my topic.

HA! And this ‘Zombie” thing is probly set up by them. and there probly make a disease that does somthing to the body
almost exactly how we know zombies. -_-

Great Job CDC and all the people that actually read the article and gave it this much thought. I ran out of time to read all
200+ posts on this discussion, so I am sorry if I am repeating this, but if you want to add one more thing to your Zombie
Kit, don’t forget pet food, leashes and/ or carriers. The last thing anyone wants to do when they are on the run from
zombies or a tornado, is leave the furry ones behind. I read a story about a boxer (dog) that the family couldn’t find
during one of the tornado rampages over the last week. The family survived in the basement, and by the grace of God
the pup was back without a scratch the next day. But how aweful is that to know your dog is out there by himself during
a tornado? I can’t stand the thought of this happening to any of my pets. So I will be stocking on the Beneful and along
with the ramen noodles, and figuring out a backup plan for where they can stay if the zombie stuff really hits the fan.
Thanks again CDC.

it is obvious to me the nay sayers did not read the entire post! I am proud of the CDC for their creativeness in getting out
some very useful information in a format which draws people in and keeps their attention… Bravo!!!

Wow. Zombies hey.

I love zombie movies and all that stuf, but when it realy happens no one wil be ready becous we neva faced anything like
that before.

Remember that zombies won’t be the only thing that we gona have to warry about when the zombie invasion happens,
there could be sycho’s to.

Let’s hope the CDC did this post for natural disasters and not something they did and trying to prepare everyone for
their mistakes!!!!!

This is the best ever. I’m going to get my pack ready.

I have been planning my own course of action since I saw Night of the Living Dead years ago and it scared the beejezus
out of me. Your list missed good running shoes, cell phone, lighter, keep your vehicle in good working order (never less
than half a tank of gas ever) and make sure to bring the pets! Last thing we need is zombie Fido or Kitty….pet carriers,
water, food, blanket for them too.

i would like to suggest that you use the cheat codes. you can find them on any gamer site

Sorry to say this but all you guys are either gonna die or be completely unprepared when the apocalypse comes. None of
you have any idea what you are talking about. Most of you are just gonna go to the nearest gun store NEWS FLASH all
you need are these three books (The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks, The Zombie Combat Manual by Roger MA,
U.S. Army Zombie Combat Skills by The Department Of The Army) and either a safe place to survive in or a plan of how
you can get to a safe place to survive.

Nick is actually the only person here who gets it.

first do something good with tax dallors and second consult with a zombie person like me. you could put stay in/on a
safe place like a roof with zombies or flooding. since you are vainly trying to compare a zombie outbreak with natural
disasters. Do something more productive with your time and our tax dallors.
Are these people actually SERIOUS?!
I mean aside from the motto that “fear sells” and trying to push their “zombie survival kit”, does anyone REALLY believe
this spill?
Just when you think they can’t sink any lower, THEY DO..
Geez, they tought us in the Army that some of these symptoms actually CAN be caused by a nuclear bomb/radiation, but
a “zombie apocalypse”? c’mon!

yes im prepared for an out breck i have my bug out bag ready

Great job guys!

I´m from Brazil, I was wondering… A zombie apocalypse, would be very good for the world, because whould be a chance
to we back to a zero point.

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Anything creative enough to get people thinking about disaster planning is money well spent. I’ve responded to
numerous disasters and am always shocked at how woefully unprepared folks were. I’ve also worked on many disaster
preparedness projects and have witnessed the total apathy that the general public has about disaster planning.
Congratuations CDC for thinking outside the box.

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this isn’t wasting money. the cdc is putting a nice spin on emergency preperation for people. it sure got your attention
though.

Awesome tactic to promote awareness… kudos CDC.

Time to dust off the crowbar and stock up on Spam. Not saying that the zombie apocalypse is going to happen but if it
did, in a weird frightened sort of way, I’d be excited.

Please stop wasting my tax money, CDC, and instead direct your energies towards vaccine safety.

I KNOW PEOPLE THING THIS IS WIERD BUT I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU MY KIDS READ ABOUT THE ZOMBIE THING AND
REALLY PAID ATTETION TO OUR FAMILY PLANS IN CASE OF AN EMERGENCY THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR A FUN WAY TO
TEACK THEM

that is so stupid :I

This is a fun and inventive way to get a new group involved in emergency preparedness. Great idea!

Great communications tool. A bit of humor to get people’s attention, but still sharing solid information. Congratulations
to the CDC for coming up with a creative way to get some solid information out into the world and to start getting
younger generations thinking about “preparedness” for an emergency. Congratulations on a unique and attention
getting campaign.

This is NOT a waste of money!!!Excellent job guys!!! Way to get the word out on being prepared for a disaster. Thanks, my
zombie plan and kit is in place and will forward this as well. KUDOS to the CDC!!!!!

i love it!

I am retired from the Army and Current Army Civilian Employee and we have been preparing for the worst since I can
remember. You got to be ready for anything, Zombies, Anthrax, terrorist. As for the the kit that CDC listed, too basic.
Spend the money on quality flashlights, radios, medical kits. backpacks, tents, stoves, etc. When you look to purchasing
equipment, ask yourself “Can I bet my life on this gear”. Speaking of Gear, you can have all the best equipment in the
world, but if you don’t have a workable plan, it’s useless. Get ready now, tomorrow might be too late. (I also have bets on
the Aliens will get you before the zombies do!)

I my self have a “Zombie Survival kit” and basic natural disaster kit in my home my zombie survival kit consists of non-
perishable foods such as spaghetti o’s beans and that sort of stuff basic first aid kit and a more advance first aid kit
about 6 gallons of water sleeping bags basic fire materials lighter matches fire steel and striker 3 knives a utility knife
SOG knife and a day to day use pocket knife duct tape gasoline a generator and other basic tools such as hammer
wrench etc my food is enough to last for 6 months mostly being cooked by a camping stove my fortified location is my
basement 7 foot thick walls 5 foot think floor all concrete it takes a wooden door and a steel door to get in plus a flight of
stairs and the steel door is locked by three dead bolts and a chain
I watched the show “the walking” dead last weekend with a friend by the way it was pretty fun you guys should check it
out .

I would suggest chain mail. Zombies can’t bite through chain mail, they only have teeth. I could go on as I have thought
quite a bit about zombie apocalypses happening but. You know. I don’t want to.

I note that the zombies don’t eat each other.

How about some make-up so you can look like a zombie?
No need for a gun or bat to “make your escape”.
Escape to where?
We are all going to die anyway.
May as well go out happy.

Millions of Americans are Zombies already, taking meds that are not needed.
Wake up.

When there is no more room in hell, the dead shell walk the earth. I can see that the first ones to turn are the same ones
that think that it’s a waste of money to do what it takes to get people to get prepared for emergencies.

Yeah the CDC can joke about a Zombie out break, but they can’t do anything about the rise of the machines! Terminator,
minus the time travel is way more possible than a Zombie attack, so tell me what the CDC is going to do about that. Oh
don’t get me wrong liberalism is proof of Zombies, but get real!

Hi, I live in Australia and we don’t really have a CDC or anything like that here, let alone one based anywhere near where
I live but my dad has this huge old Nissan Datson Patrol which is basically a truck and is absolutely perfect for a zombie
invasion because it has seats that we put in the back, is the most durable thing around, seats about 7, 9 if your pushing it
and 14 if you utilize the floor space and it is just plain awesome. My friends and I have this whole zombie invasion
evasion plan sorted out and I can reach all the pedals of the car at 5’2″ tall and being the shortest, we should be all good
🙂
I am about to forward the url to all my friends but I think that it great that a government body somewhere on earth is
finally starting to take the threat of a zombie invasion seriously because I seriously hate scary movies and a zombie
invasion would be the most terrifying thing on the planet!… Ta! 😛
Nice to see that a government organization that has one of the most serious of jobs, can show that their people and
have some fun once in a while. And the preparedness kit they describe really is a good emergency preparedness kit in
general. Good job!

PS – on the other hand though: Is there something they know that we don’t? 🙂
imagine if there was a real zombie virus

How could the CDC have missed the impact of AMC’s The Walking Dead, which is set in Atlanta (CDC’s home)? Some
scenes involved the CDC.

where can I get printed copies of your excellent ads/images?

I’ve been ready for the Zombie Apocalypse for years.It will happen hopefully not in our life time though. It even says in
the bible that the dead will rise from there graves. So if the CDC is backing it up along with bible it has to be true.The
best place to start you preperation is the nearest army surplus store,they will have every thing you need. Make sure that
everyone in caravan/Family,Friends knows how to drive a big rig or a big old school bus. Next stop a super walmart and
take all that you need remember don’t be greedy there will be others that need rations. But if push comes to shove you
and your own come first.Then you’ll need a home depot gather as much would ,sheet metal,batteries,flash lights
tools,generators,flood lights,pvc,coper,metal pipeing and concrete.Then hold up in an industrial like wherehouse
structure too prepare for the jurney but don’t hold up to long .I complety left this out sorry your going to need to hit up a
gas station right after taking your school bus/rig.

Your supply list is very good and has helped me with my plan. My plan is to round up about 20 people head to Wal-mart
baricade evry entrance with shelfs and anything else heavy. Make a farm on the roof for an unlimeded supply od food
and use weapons from the hunting section and finally use large buckets/ bens to catch rain water to drink. If anyone else
has any ideas how do make my plan better pleas let me know.

me and my friends commonly disscuse this and have allready planned wat to do
1 more thing to all these ppl saying its a waste of money, you never now wat could happen with all these new diseises
going around and bio warfare and stuff so stuff it thank you CDC even tho i kno yall could have put moore stupp for the
safty kit

OMG, there’s a zombie on my lawn!

even if the CDC did help they would need military support so shouldnt the military also be prepard for this as well?

to post # 266 u play to much plants vs zombies bro lol

Man oh man, There’s Zombies in Las Vegas they have blue hair and frequent casinos.

What a great way to get younger generations to pay attention to the importance of emergency preparedness! Federal
funding well spent. Cudos to all involved.

why/how would the CDC conduct an investigation for the infection? and how will the zombies be are they like old school
zombies (slow, brainless) or new schoool (fast, slowly gaining knowledge/memories)? will animals be a part of their food
chain? will zombies have an urge for our flesh or brains? where will the infection start? I NEED ANSWERS PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!

Chris (20 Jun 11 at 843 pm ET)

you need to watch more movies man too many people die in places like wal-mart yeah it’s ok to drop in and get supplies
but that’s it you need to find a more secure location and make sure you can fortify

This is genius, if you want to educate the under 30 crowd about emergency preparedness this will do it! Genius!!

I was pretty entertained by this, until I wondered how many tax dollars were wasted in the preparation of this article. I
envision a project manager, a task force, dry-erase boards, spreadsheets… awesome use of government time and
taxpayer funds!

i have prepared ive found a wwII fallout shelter stocked it with extra food ammo and supplies and first aid cousns in the
air force got a humvee and a conected riot proof garage above the shelter it houses 14 below with free space and 10
above saftley with animal food also a ventalation shaft and water purification installed lavratories and hygine equipment
riot gear and non perisable food with a renewable water source and a wind turbine and gas and bike powered
generators i 20 people can survive here for 10 years or more also with extra upstars storage mabey even longer.

the infection has got to be flown in – i expect we will need cages at airports – this will be one of the answers for curing
the world wide financial crisis – greece has a long history of zombies gong back 100s of years – they can lead the world in
detection and surveillance!!!

imagine if terrorists used zombies as a form of bio-warfare. we’d be screwed unless we all had one of these kits. SO GO
MAKE ONE! I DON’T NEED YOUR ZOMBIE BUTT TRYING TO EAT ME!

Really good one!!well done ;_)

Just wear a condom. The CDC will love you.

Thanks for you’re comment Ron. We hope you enjoyed the article and understand the importance of being prepared for
any emergency, especially real ones like hurricanes, floods, or tornados.

In response to your comment, we actually didn’t spend any additional money on this campaign. We used existing staff,
resources, and communication channels. We are really proud of the number of people we reached on a shoestring
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Thanks for reading and stay tuned for more from Public Health Matters!

i CAN,T WAIT TILL THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE

Wow, i love how the CDC trys to down play the fact that tere are Zombies. I am sure they are a bi product of some
government testing gone wrong.

A GOOD (Get Out Of Dodge) bag is a must have at all times. This is a 48 hour survival kit listed in this article, and contains
everything you MUST have to survive 48 hours on foot. Make one in a large backpacking bag and keep it in your garage. I
include a lightweight tent with mine 🙂
i believe ,in a real long term disaster there will be the unprepared persons,evil persons,injured or infected
persons.desperation is a motivation to kill for comfort.one should prepare for real monsters.you read about them
everyday in the papers.police only act after a crime,too late for the dead.

well i guess that the cdc dont read the news but 2 real zombie attacks 1 oklahoma and 1 new orleans …sad part is that it
was caused by drugs ……….meth

This is absolutely an EPIC post! Definitely sharing. My parents thought I was crazy fro reading “The Zombie Survival
Guide” by Max Brooks. Thinking I am totally insane for even considering a Zombie Apocalypse as a possibility. Hey Man.. I
would rather be prepared. If it doesn’t hapen, great! If it does, I’m prepared. And guess who will be calling me once
zombies are knocking down their door. That’s right my parents. And just with this post goes to show, it’s possible. Even
the CDC thinks so. Thanks so much CDC! For showing the judgemental unbelievers, it is possible for a Zombie
Infestation.

Listen people. This is about DISASTER preparedness. For all of you morons who are complaining that the government is
wasting money on this, please read it. This is about natural disasters. They are using the zombie angle to get people
reading. If people prepare for a zombie outbreak and, oh I don’t know, a FLOOD occurs, guess what?, they have an
emergency kit!!!!!!!!!!! I’m not a an of the current administration but KUDOS to you good folks at the CDC. Don’t let some
narrow minded people stop you from your good work!!!

Just substitute bird flu for zombie apocalypse and this is a very good article. I for one have never gone to a CDC page and
read anything except travel advisories until this, so it captured my interest. The bird flu of 1918 (aka Spanish flu) killed
more people than WWI, so it is still a real danger. Thank you CDC for still looking out for us.

Nice little posting, however:

Most likely if there was a Zombie outbreak you are looking more towards Night of the living dead, Shaun of the Dead and
Last of the living Zombies, they would be slow moving because of muscle deterioration and loss of a lot of mental
capacity including movement.
So IF there ever was a zombie outbreak, rather than going to a “shellter” or “camp” where IF the infected did get inside,
they would most likely cause an outbreak inside, it’s actually best to wait inside a place you are familiar with, that is safe
for at least the first two weeks, because there would be no blood circulation eventually the zombies bodies would have
an advance level of decomposition and start to deteriorate which would effect their movement more and cause them to
be much slower, which would be easier to deal with. Now, in the event it’s a natural disaster, fallow all the things CDC
has said, if it’s a zombie outbreak … Do your research =)

What if there were to be a virus spread genetically that activated in the 10th year or any year of life, so nobody could
prepare for it?

We’d be screwed.

I think this is a very COST EFFECTIVE way of communicating emergency preparedness! Kudos!

To everyone complaining about WASTED GOVERNMENT MONEY, how else would you suggest the CDC get basic
emergency preparedness info out to the public? When was the last time you got so many hits on your blog? If a fraction
of the hipsters who check out this page actually put together emergency kits, and a fraction of them actually have a
reason to use them, that’s still lives saved and maybe a few less people requiring expensive emergency assistance.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of TAX DOLLARS SAVED (and also lives saved, if that matters at all).

BIG THANKS to everyone working in the field of public health!

Jacob is willing to help with any outbreak

This is frieken BEAUTIFUL, i got teary eyed when i read it. Hilarious. very good way to get disaster info out there. Good
job CDC.

You have got to be kidding me. Really! And we can’t even help those who’s homes are being taken away by hurricanes,
floods and tornadoes. No one knows when the end of time will be. An all powerful being would never let the little guy
know when the final day is coming. Why would He let you prepare. You might as well sit and suffer thinking you are
going to be tortured by zombies and waste you money in the resession on your zombie kit because your zombies will be
your family, friends and neighbors coming to kill, steal and distroy what you do have after the rapture does come and
the anti-christ is the one controlling everything left in the world. What you eat, do, say, buy. What a crock! Blah
Don’t you mean vaccine zombies??? Don’t you people have someone to go inject a bunch of toxins into?… oh but that
would be one way to start a zombie apocolypse… especially since you have identified the virus. I am sure you people just
suck!

Amazing, just before finding this post I had made a game out of making a survival kit with the family. The one we had
need to be updated and refreshed. The kids loved the post. Thanx for the humor but for the real world common sense.

very clever how you named the article zombies so people would read it even though it is all about hurricanes. but all the
same i have my zombie survival kit in my bacement

The CDC shouldn’t just focus on an investigation or quarantine in the event of any epidemic or bio-hazard situation
because many people will lose faith in the government when they aren’t evacuated. Evacuation in any bio-hazard
situation should be immediate.

My wife still does not believe. I’m going to miss her.

aaahhh !. :O this is so awesome . My friend wants to be a proffesional zombie killer when she grows up . ! (:

I am prepared for the zombie apocolypse.

ZOMBIES WOULD NEVER HAPPEN, think about the human body, since zombies are dead, they have no heart beat, no
blood or oxygen is going to the brain, how would the brain function…why would have to shot the zombie in the head and
destroy the brain, the brain is already destroyed. a zombie brain would be a puddle of goo and if there was some how a
way for zombies to still live after the brain shut down, you could simply hide out for a year, the bodies would fall apart…if
that don’t work, move to the yukon, the zombies would never make it, they would be frozen soild….If a zombie bite a
polar bear and it becomes a zombpolbear then i guess your …

Anyone who wants a great training course for themselves and their family shoot us an email. Doesn’t matter if you’re
preparing for zombies or economic collapse, you need to start preparing now.

If ever I have heard a reason to arm all the citizens of the USA this would be the reason.

The CDC is working on an vaccine to innoculate select “important” people when this outbreak happens. Ask yourself why
they would need an vaccine if there was no virus? And why was the vaccine not mentioned in this article?

Well they made the zombie virus and they are working on the vaccine in a top secret lab but the scientists have not been
successful yet. So there will not be a zombie outbreak until they have the vaccine.

Don’t say you weren’t warned.

For all you people out there talking about how we are wasting our tax money on talking about zombies- live a little! The
CDC obviously isn’t serious about the zombies, they want to bring attention to the real problem- emergency (such as
earthquakes and tornados) awareness. And for all you idiots out there freaking out about how there really will be an
apocolypse- get a life. Seriously lay off, if you wanna be prepared then cool but stop stuffing your opinions down the
throat of others. This is coming from a 16 year old girl, and I make more sense than all of you paranoid people. Thanks.

Awesome

wait wait wait…. the government is gonna try to handle this situation???? oh crap…. well… WE’RE BONED!!!!!

Brilliant campaign. Definitely reaching a segment of the population that would otherwise not EVER care to read anything
like this . Brilliant.

I would love to know how many people have actually read this post that would not have bothered with a normal post…
Finally the CDC is providing to the level of a missed audience…

Do you know how many times I have had to explain and interpret emergency warnings to functionally illiterate
individuals? The only problem with this post is that there is going to be SOMEONE SOMEWHERE who is going to believe
that The X-files have discovered the Zombie plot is real and comming our way …

[#289 June 26, 2011 at 7:47 pm ET – Inexistent User :What if there were to be a virus spread genetically that activated in
the 10th year or any year of life, so nobody could prepare for it?*****]

*****I actually think it is there we just are not paying attention to it yet. Ignorance will be the leveler of the playing field.
dryfood, meds and things are all ready to go.

my comment is still waiting modernation… is this conformed enough? Or are you going to deny me this comment also?

“The Zombie Survival Guide” by Max Brooks. It is complete protection from the living dead.
Prepare now……..

This is the most awesome post you all have EVER put out. 🙂 Well done!
Slick PR campaign to catch peoples attention! I’d say the CDC just educated a host of unsuspecting twentysomethings
searching “Nazi Apocalypse” on Google.

This is awesome! my buddies and i have talked about this happening for years now and we have our plan near perfected
for what we’ll do if a catastrophe like this happens. all the other survival kit stuff should be a “no brainer” to most people.
on the zombie side of things me and my team have our community protected. thanks CDC keep up the good work!

For all you people who think this is a waste of money…..get over it! You never know what will happen and it did not cost a
lot of money to put this page up. And if there is a zombie outbreak you will probably get eaten first.

yeah this is cool thanks cdc but i think the government should quit messing with stuff so this dont happen

HEY!! wanna check good way to prepares yourself to zombies invasion? Go chec the animes Highschool of The Dead and
the TV show( dont know if it was canceled) The Walking Dead.
Learn something from them and use it in case of this happens…
P.S: Not joking u should rlly check tht out

I cannot believe that you the CDC would actually post an emergency prepardness plan for what is assume a social myth
“Zombies”. Where is the proof of this virus. This decreases one faith in the validity in the CDC’s scientific research.

Extremely pleased with this post. What an awesome idea for informing the public what to do in case of an emergency, in
such a fun and delightful manner. A spoonful of sugar always helps the medicine go down. Sheer marketing genius! I will
be posting this on facebook, I think alot of my friends will get a kick out of it. You should really make a printable (.pdf)
poster, this would be great for my cubicle 🙂 the [header] graphic artwork is just great!

🙂🙂🙂
zombies are no worry they would most likely be to slow the epidemic would end as quick as it started

1. find a blunt object

2. ration your food
3. find high ground
4. learn how to grow your own food
5. learn how to clean your water
6. get a mountain bike and oozz for your tires
( they go where cars and trucks cant)
7. dont try and save anyone unless u really cant let them die
8. keep going
9. remember what your fighting for
10. keep a change of socks and a second pair of clothes with u

You broke down the topic pretty well; really well written!

This was a brilliant idea. I’m making an emergency kit today and do I remember to look for the CDC site? No. Do I
remember the article about Zombie Apocalypse? YES!

If u are into this …… look up max brooks he is a author ……

ha me and my friends strted talking about what we would do if this ever happend. we would stockpile food

Perfect work you have done, this site is really cool with wonderful information.

for those complaining about there tax dollars being wasted cuz they believe its imposibble ur a idiot cdc did a great job
on this and i dont believe they wasted a ton of cash to write a simple article on solanum virus i believe warning the
public of potential saftey hazards is important including this one u must always be prepared even in this instance they
would not post it if it is not a potential threat and while im running from u cuz ur a flesh eating freak that cant take
advice i’ll be laughing at ur ignorance

With Obama’s issued warning on Tuesday when he said social security payments and veterans’ checks, among other
payments, could be at risk if negotiators don’t reach a deal to raise the debt limit above $14.3 trillion by Aug. 2., We could
indeed be facing a “Zombie Apocalypse.” Think of it, without necessary funds needed to sustain food, medicines, &
shelter the number of people who would be in the streets, homeless, jobless, sick, hungry, crazed.

Im actually a zombie writing this post right now.

wtf dudes???

Brilliant and entertaining way to bring attention to such an important issue. Nice job! And a shoutout to my fellow
Zombie Response Team members!

Is this a joke? Do you Americans really beleave in this? 😀

And you guys wonder why no body takes you serious!
Greetings from Europe

learned a lot from blogs.cdc.gov

If a zombir bites you on the arm, can you cut off your limb and thus be saved from the infection ?

now i know why I’m being taxed 34% by the federal gv

Im sorry. Zombies aren’t real they are like dinosaurs, They lived and died, or they are just a myth. But wonderful report IF
it ever happened.

I love it.. It made me look harder and I usually don’t read the comments. For those that are upset that preparedness is
being address this way… GET OVER IT… this is a great way to get to people, especially young people, to really look at what
they need. If you look around you see Zombies all over the place… at least talk about the impending zombie apocalypse.
Good job!!

this is so funny I will totally use this during a zombie apocalypse hilarious!

This was a very well thought out idea. What a fun way to get people thinking about real disaster preparation. I can see by
some of the comments that are negative – some people did not read it before replying. First of all, the CDC is not funded
by your tax dollars people but if it was you should be proud. Think of all the people who will read this thinking it’s a joke
then realize they do need to be more prepared for natural disasters or anything that could come up. Young people even,
the age group mostly joking about zombies all the time could use this information to save their life if there was an
earthquake or I don’t know maybe if a nuclear power plant started having meltdowns… Thank you for this blog, very well
done.

What happens to the rescue plan if all the CDC folks become Zombies?

With what is going on in DC these days, it appears that there are already a bunch of Zombies in Congress and the White
House….so a take over of the CDC is not too much of a stretch.

If you meet by the mailbox, the zombies will get you for sure!!!!

@ Heinrich Holler — When the zombies come for you–don’t expect the USA to save you.

Please put a disclaimer on this article that this is not true. My son suffers from paranoia and is extremely disturbed that
what is written is actually real. I don’t mind the fun of such an article, but it can be very disturbing for those who suffer
from this disorder.

Please amend this article to show that is fake.

Regards,
Glenn

zombies are real (look outside every friday night) .

You have got to be kidding me…. Zombies??? Really?? Wow… I never thought I’d see the day. This is ridiculous! The CDC
has been watching way too many cheesy old horror flicks. Give me a break.
all the people complaining about our “tax dollars” writing this article, need to lighten up. All the advice in this article can
be applied to ANY diasater situation. Thats why they didnt include weapons in their “survival kit”.

Now back to zombies, I would also include some kevlar gloves(and even sleeves if you can afford them) so you dont have
to worry about getting bit on the hand.

my plan, to melt car parts and other metal, and combined with a thick rubber suit, create something like spartan or
ODST type armor like from the halo series, as id like to see a zombie bite though an arm covered in a couple pounds of
metal

This truly answered my dilemma, thank you!

Great work CDC. We especially commned the idea of evacuees agreeing on meeting places.

The reason they don’t have get a gun on the list is because this is actually a list of things to do in the event of a real
emergency ie natural disaster or terrorist attack. They don’t want armed scared americans roaming the streets or
showing up to red cross sites with rifles and shot guns lol.

if zombie’s really attacked the world that could prove the world is screwed royally!

this could make purple monkey’s and talking elephants cause my giraffe is already mocking me at my window!!
my life would be more fun then it already is cause my cousin is chuck Norris.

my cousin would star the zombie invasion and the world will show how screwed it really is.

Really, people? Lighten up with your retard comments like “umg guyz this iz wazting r munnyz”. I mean really, since when
does it cost ANY money WHATSOEVER to post on a blog? Never. It’s idiot tightwads like you that make this country hell
for the rest of us. Lighten up.

This is wonderful. Now if only we could find a fun and innovative way to stress the importance of reading
comprehension, so that the poor souls who have been upset by this blog post will have some hope of someday getting
this joke.

Or any joke for that matter. Or if we could just get them to stop bragging about how they don’t understand what’s going
on around them, as if abject stupidity was the noblest of virtues…

Your website is extremely great … carry on the work!

I AM IMPRESSED NO T WITH CDC BUT WITH US AND HOW WE HAVE DEVELOPED A ZOMBIE ALERT ? DONT GET ME
WRONG I LOVE ZOMBIE FLICKS AND IM TERRYFIED THAT THIS MIGTH REALLY HAPPEN SO IM PREPARING AT THIS
MOMENT MY ZOMBIE KIT . YOU HAVE CONVINCED ME .

this doesnt make any sense y would u have the cops or fire department or something like thts # they would have
probabaly have left town ive thought about wat i would do if a zombie apocalypse happened for years so if it really
happened i would be ready and i no it
its very complicated plan but not really

Way to go CDC ! Thumbs up for the marketing genius!

For the negative complainers, the CDC really got their bang for the buck on this twist. It is the same basic disaster
preparedness information that the CDC has been making available to the public, but with some tongue in cheek humor
added to make it a little more enjoyable and get the public attention. In trying to get people to read the information
available, this zombie twist hit the jackpot.

In all seriousness, the preparedness information contained is valid useful information. Read it. Understand it. Use it. You
will not be sorry.

Note: I am in no way connected with the CDC.

Awesome post! Zombie apocalypse? We can handle it!

The trailer for the second season of The Walking Dead just premiered at Comic-Con and I KNOW all you zombie-
enthusiasts will eat this up!
Can’t WAIT for the new season!!!

Some garlic and a silver cross might also come in handy just in case.

The emergency preparedness kits should also be useful during the next Rapture scheduled for this October and the
cataclysm associated with the end of the Mayan calendar in December 2012. Start preparing now before it’s too late!

I think that you’ll need to see a psychiatrist

i really think that if a zombie apocalypse does happen i know that would be one crazy thing to really get your mind
around it and react to it, when it comes to something that crazy i really think there is chemicals that could be launch into
out atmosphere and gives the population some kind of weird sickness and such thing could cause the humanity
population to actually turn out to be like zombies running around waiting to get a piece of your flesh and rip it apart but
if does happen i hope that the C.D.C does act fast to something so critical and crazy as something like this i would
survive to the fullest

when i heard about this i flipped out and made an entire emergency kit and i carry it around every were i know all about
zombies so i know good true movies are zombie land.

Sanitation is an important factor to keep in mind since public water supplies might not be operational during an
extended power outage. If water pumps can’t move the water our indoor plumbing quickly stops working.

It would be real nice if you would educate people on Morgellons disease as I have had to bear alot of the brunt for your
lack of education and non disclosure of the “studies” performed at Kaiser permanente’. Thousands are suffering and this
really does not humor me.
You may also want to stop asking people for their psychiatric problem in the Oils spill also. I wrote to Joe Biden and your
head of the CDC sent a tepid response to me that there is no danger in the spill and no danger in the dispersants. I think
you might want to have a chat with the people because we are slammed with blood levels of people with hexane,
benzine, mercury, 2 and 3 Methylpentane above the 95 Quintile, Issocatane and now Cesium 99 this is nothing to be
ignored. People are very ill all over the coast of the Gulf and this is not National News.
I guess these workers and humans are delusional like Morgellons patients.
The lack of help from the CDC I find appaling and OSHA should have made BP have respirators manditory.
This is a horrific lack of oversight and compassion on the part of the CDC and yes while the world is awash in
Environmental Armegeddon you put out an article that you think is cute.
Thanks, there is a real appocolypse coming if we dump one more chemical in that gulf or spray one more barrel of
CORE-EXIT in that Gulf.
Trisha Springstead RN MS

Bicycles would be essential for getting around fossil fuels would definitely run out in an Apocalypse situation. Motorcycle
jump suits would provide decent armor as they can stay intact after an accident it would be hard for teeth or nails to get
through. Brick walls would make a decent defense. Definitely invest in solar panels for electricity main power grids would
probably go down.

ok listen me not cdc i have the idea to learn how to survive in front of this apocalyps …… PLAY BLACK OPS IN THE
SOMBIE MODE ….. HAHAHA XD

TO: CDC
REF: ZOMBIE PREPAREDNESS

I THOUGHT THE ARTICLE ON ZOMBIE PREPAREDNESS WAS VERY INTERESTING, AND IF I WOULDNT ALREADY HAVE AN
EMERGENCY KIT AVAILABLE, THE ARTICLE WOULD HAVE MADE ME MAKE ONE. IF THIS IS WHAT IT TAKES TO GET PEOPLE
INTERESTED IN THEIR SAFETY THAN IM ALL FOR IT. DONT WORRY, IM NOT ONE WHOSE WORRIED SO MUCH ABOUT THE
COST AS MUCH AS THE RESULT. GOOD JOB!

We’re in the midst of the biggest budget crisis experienced by our nation in our lifetimes, and this is how public servants
chose to spend their time (and by extension our tax resources?)

I wonder how many GS-15s it took to put this together.

I can’t wait to tell the Washington Post about this.

This is an old article. I read it a couple months ago. I have seen this apocalypse coming. They will be here soon. Is it 2012?
I do not know at all. All I know is that this has happened before, but it wasn’t an apocalypse.

I agree with Dylan. Dylan, remember, it has to be flexible, and it shouldn’t have any holes that zombies can get their
hands into!

i did not know this will happen im soo scared out of my mind. if this happens then…..
+

this cant happen.

i will be going to wall mart you can close thoes big metal gates they have canned goode generators firearms and
ammunition batteries meds camping and cooking supplies ( grills) climb to the roof after it is locked down all doors and
have 360 degree security you could last there untill the water ran out ( bottles)

I find this article interesting and i find that the people who do find this article helpful to be understanding of being
prepared for whatever happens and find those who don’t like this article to please stop adding rude comments. You are
closed minded and ignorant of the possibilities that could happen, nothing is written in stone and its aggravating when
people post rude remark, if you don’t like it then quit reading it and go search for basic safety precautions for disasters
within your area.
“Expect the best, prepare for the worst”

I am fully prepared but what badge are you guys talking about

This was a well thought out way to get people prepared for natural disasters. I know many people walk around care free
thinking nothing can happen and everything will be provided by the government, well we seen how that worked out after
a few hurricanes.

Having worked in law enforcement for over 16 years I can tell you most people are not prepared for even a small
disaster and rely on the police and fire to take care of everything.

Each citizen should take a little self responsibility and put a kit together with all the items listed by the CDC and
Ready.gov. That way if a family should have to shelter in place until help arrives they can be prepared and sustain some
safety and health and not tax the system should help be slow to get there.

Zombies are a good example to get everyone prepared for a disaster, it makes the idea of being prepared fun and get
your entire family involved. I applaud the CDC for using this idea to get American’s prepared should a disaster befall
their community. Thanks CDC for a wonderful way to get people ready for any emergency.

I’m sure there were several critics that did not like the idea that voiced their opinion on this forum. But it surely got their
attention and likely may save their life one day for making them read something they probably never would have.

Good Job!

Matt,

Thanks for reading and for your blog comment. As we have mentioned previously this blog incurred no additional costs
to the government. We used existing staff and resources and feel that it has completed our mission of informing the
public about important public health preparedness messages.

Thanks!

What a fun, creative way to teach kids (and Adults) about emergency response kits! My boys now have taken interest in
our 72 hr kit, where it is, and what is in it. Government money well spent!

To all of you First Responders, National Guard, and Federal Military,

Remember that your “zombie” emergency plan for your family should not be contingent upon you. You are going to be
up to your neck in “undead”, infected, or more than likely just plain stupid people that refused to listen to warnings.

Unfortunately that means that your family will be on their own.

It sucks but its the life that we have chosen.

SO, make sure your kit is sorted out, your family knows where it is and how to use it, and you have a plan to
communicate with them and/or find them if the situation becomes so dire that you choose to abandon your post
screaming “every man for themselves”!

Most important is to teach them how to survive without you and the importance of proper mindset. If you are the Alpha
male of your house hold, then most likely you have shielded them, provided for them, and protected them their whole
lives. Its time to teach them to protect and provide for themselves.

You are going to have a horrible job of holding society together and preventing anarchy, the least that you can do for
yourself is make sure you KNOW that your family is going to be OK, so you can focus on your job and your
responsibilities to the greater good.

i say, bring em, this country is in a ressesition and zompoc would be the perfect thing to 1: population controll(survival of
the prepared) 2: open up ALOT of job opprotunities after the outbreak and 3: zompoc would be a hell of alot more fun
than sitting around at a 9-5 job or online doing job apps for jobs that dont exist by the time they are seen anyway

Love this so much!!! Its about time !!! We should be prepared for any and all emergencies!!

I havent started yet so I need more time

You people that commet on things such as this with negative comments are just pathetic. In the opening paragraph it
says this is for “example”. This blog is to help prepare for other emegencies, to give oneself an idea of what to do/get
during any emergency.

i am not afraid of them anymore

hey zoombies lets see wat happens after this? just wait and watch

Thanks, the “Zombie” angle got even our adult children interested in Dad’s “obsession” to be prepared for hurricanes,
power outage glitches, pandemic influenza of huge proportions and even ZOMBIE’s which was not on my radar until
now!

Amusing angle that worked as intended! Thanks….from an obsessively protective dad and granddad!

A. Did our tax dollars go to this tripe?

B. This all comes from the organization that for years has been at the forefront of taking our 2d amendment rights from
us.

Zombie defense can only be accomplished through application of accurately directed objects via kinetic energy as a
function of the ejection of lead from a metal tube caused by a gaseous explosion.

“live perpetrators often require 2 to the chest, one to the head, guaranteed to make them dead” Zombies however
require “one to the head just to ensure they’re really dead”

I’m currently writing my own zombie survival strategy and will post a link here when finished. I agree with the saferooms,
preferably having air vents, plants, heavy doors and no windows. However, there needs to be a service that allows areas
to coordinate saferooms so that there is always a saferoom within a 2-3 hour walking distance of another saferoom.
Also, large, strategic bridges should be destroyed and ferries be offered in place so that zombies would be better
isolated to land masses. That’s just my 2 cents though.

Thanks for sharing valuable information about master

Wow, 372 posts! This blog article must have been read by thousands of people after it went viral. I’ll bet a “normal” blog
article on disaster preparedness would not have achieved even one tenth as many posts and reads. Kudos to the genius
who dreamed this up!

As someone who has been preparing (prepping) for a long time and has CERT training I think this is great!

For those of you who think this is real/ stupid/ a waste of money , you all will clearly be the first ones to turn zombie :P.
This isn’t political folks ,both liberals and right wingers are in the prepper movement so get over it.

Great job getting young people to take preparedness seriously CDC!

It’s a joke people , laugh every few years, it should release your sphincter and make you hate a little less.

This is fantastic, being that I typically put out FEMA/CDC pamplets on preparing for any and all emergency issues for the
people who come into my office…(somewhere not too far north of NYC itself) I applaud this. Its a wonderful way of
getting kids and adults to think about how to protect life and property.

LMAO……But then ya never know, this might be exactly the best way to warn people if there REALLY is a Zombie bug!

I am pretty much prepared because I listen to The Survival Podcast, The Urban Survival Podcast, and the Chip Monk
Family Preparedness Podcast. They have helped me be ready for all eventualities. Mostly thanks to The Survival Podcast
and Jack Spirko. Thanks Jack! And thanks to my Dad who raised me with a survival mindset.

Ive been reading a lot about this subject lately and i learned a little more from reading this, thanks for the post.

Bravo! well done to whoever came up with this as a way to get people to read about being prepared. (and an even bigger
‘well done’ to their supervisor who had the guts to green-light the idea)

Looks like your site is getting alot of visitors.

BEAUTIFUL site and great info! BRAVO to the CDC for making disaster preparedness relevant to those who might never
really “get” the urgent need to always be prepared for a natural or (worse) man-made disaster that lasts longer than a
few hours. The closest thing I came to a “disaster” was when the power went out (and stayed out) for over 5 1/2 days in
Cincinnati in early 2008 due to unexpectedly and extremely high winds (thank you Hurricane Ike). I was woefully
unprepared, and so were all of the businesses, urgent cares and everything else in my area; the local hospitals’ power
didn’t return until over 3 days afterward.

I never made that mistake again, and have quite the emergency preparedness kit, though it does lack a few things
mentioned in the article (thx, CDC!), esp. re: the pet essentials. Couching your info in a “zombie apocalypse” scenario only
makes it that much more fun (and relevant) to me. I’m not a lazy teen or millennial slacker or paranoid gamer-basement
dweller – I’m a middle-aged attorney in a law enforcement agency (and my supervisors were the ones who sent me the
link to this!). In fact, we might be putting it in our next “health and safety” e-newsletter.

Put it this way – no one ever died from too much good information! When the zombies are at your door, you’ll wish you’d
paid more attention to this and less to American-friggin’-Idol! And don’t forget – Cardio, cardio, cardio (w/the occasional
double-tap!).

Keep up the fabulous work, CDC!! You’ve made my week; and I’m so gratified to find many compadres that think about
these things as much as I do!! Where’s a zombie response team I can join?? :o)

lol that was great, I laughed and learned what I need to do incase of an emergency

i don’t wish for an event of zombies to happen but ive built as good a kit to survive as a 13 year old could
and iv read zombie survival guide 3 times taking notes etc.
i have a map of my state,city,country,surrounding states, safe zones,pawn shops ,super stores ,gun shops, military
surplus stores,even a map of my own neighborhood that I drew my self i don’t know if that will keep me alive or not but
if happens ill be ready and if i don’t survive than whom ever finds my gear surely will if they are smart enough to work
my gear but if they weren’t than they wouldn’t be alive to find it in the fist place .

What a breath of fresh air! Humor in a bureaucratic post. Keep it Up!!

BRAVO, CDC!!! Way to make emergency preparedness fun AND relevant to a population that likely would not think about
such an important thing (me being one of them, and I’m a veteran and an attorney for a law enforcement agency!). As a
species humans tend to be a “reactive,” rather than “proactive,” bunch. Therefore, they are often caught unawares when
a disaster (natural or worse, man-made) strikes.

I was in Cincinnati, OH in 2008 when the winds from Hurricane Ike knocked out power for hundreds of square miles; in
my case, over 5 1/2 days, and I wasn’t rural, I was in a heavily populated suburb of downtown. EVERYONE, businesses,
hospitals, fire/police stations and myself, were caught completely off-guard. It doesn’t sound like a long time, but it truly
feels like forever when you can’t get even the most basic of essentials, like water and canned food, b/c all the businesses
were shuttered until at least 3 days into the outage (obviously, the hospitals and emergency stations were 1st priority,
then businesses, then everyone else). You couldn’t drive the roads for the first 2 days at least (sparking wires and
downed branches were littering the streets). Needless to say, the traffic llights didn’t work, so you were really taking your
life in your hands to venture out in a vehicle.

It definitely scared me into awareness of how important it is to have the basics on hand, and in mass quantities, b/c you
never know just how long you’ll be w/o the basics, like electric power. We take so much for granted. And zombies (my
favorite horror monster) are a potent reminder of the effects of societal breakdown – replace zombie w/”terrorist” and
hopefully, you get my point. What if you can’t get thru to 911? What if law and order completely collapsed? What if those
societal buttresses were suddenly (maybe permanently?) yanked out from under you? Obviously, the CDC can only do its’
particular function in all this, but you see where I’m going. You MUST be prepared for something like this, b/c there’s very
little to stop it from happening.

So thank you, CDC, you did a marvelous job of shocking the conscience of quite a few people, myself included. Keep up
the fabulous work.

PS – Never forget to double-tap!!

Great article with very interesting information. You might want to follow up to this topic!?!

You forgot to include an axe. Seriously. Not for zombies. For hacking through the attic to get up to the roof. A lot of flood
victims drown because the water rises to the attic, and they can’t get up to the roof.

I must say Resident Evil was one of my best. It has a better plot than most and it more futuristic.

I would also recommend adding a couple of “friends” to your emergency rations. Preferably some that you don’t
particulary like so you can trip them when the zombies start chasing you, giving you extra time to get away.

Great website. What a fun way to get people thinking about real disaster preparation. I can see by some of the
comments that are negative – some people did not read it before replying. First of all, the CDC is not funded by your tax
dollars people but if it was you should be proud. Think of all the people who will read this thinking it’s a joke then realize
they do need to be more prepared for natural disasters or anything that could come up.
Jesus Castillo Como Subir la Masa Muscular

I prepare by playing Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies on a daily basis lol

We are sitting here in the store and wonder what in the hell was wrong with these slobber, sloth like fellow. Then he
pushes back out onto the street and a another customer says “that dude was a zombie!”. He gave us this site address
and told us to read up on the zombie possibility and what to do if they are here. After the last customer yesterday, I
believe that the “if” is actually an “is”. The zombie are here and are now populating the planet.

Thanks for the post. I always enjoy reading your blog.

Keep’em coming more frequently.

Best!

Interesting views forsure, yeah doesn’t seem to far fetched either with all the crazy stuff they can mix up now a days in a
science lab and implement it in a new energy drink or something of that nature. If that happens i plan on staying in my
summer house with all my supplies.

I hope the president is aware of this situation and is forming a committee to look into a possible vaccine to prevent this
from happening. But just incase I got my kit already made.

I’m not sure about you but if such a thing were to happen, more often than not a mass riot would break out before
anyone got their heads straight on what to do to survive such a disaster. And if this were to happen, most government
officials would treat this as someone causing a violent riot for odds reasons or even for terrorism before openly
accepting that zombies are attacking. I love this article and mean no offense but this is how I would see us reacting.
Well…A zombie apocalypse is a particular scenario of apocalyptic literature that customarily has a science fiction/horror
rationale. In a zombie apocalypse, a widespread rise of zombies hostile to human life engages in a general assault on
civilization.In short great post…really amazing…Thank you so much for sharing this amazing info…

i think that we all should take zombies seriously because if yo have built a zsk (zombie,survival,kit) you can use it for any
situations

To any and all idiots (likely all teabaggers) complaining about “wasted money”, think for a minute, if you’re not too brain
damaged. Then again, that goes without saying when talking about such idiots.

How much money did this page actually cost to produce? Let’s be pessimistic and say five hours, plus the cost of
gathering pictures and the time it takes to post it. How much is that? About $300? $500 total? That’s a pittance.

Compare that to the waste of “programs” like “abstinence only sex education” for which hundreds of millions of dollars
was spent. The product of that “program” was increased STD transmission and increased teen pregnancy.

Will this “zombie” warning cause disease? Cause mass panic? Cause an increase in violence and lawlessness? No, none of
the above. The biggest “cost” of this page is the cost in data transfer, the number of times it has been viewed by the
public.

But if the public are reading it, then that was the point: getting people to think about disaster preparation. At the price it
cost, it was a bargain.

I have always been a woman who is not scared of anything.. not even death.. but I AM TERRIFIED of Zombies.. and not
like.. I will cower in the corner while they eat me alive terrified.. Im terrified where if i see you have been bit.. Sorry but
your gonna have to be dealt with, no need to sit and ponder it. I have always had a fear of a zombie Apocalypse..
Religiously and Scientifically it is possible.. I remembered hearing, when there is no more room in hell, the dead will walk
the earth. Not to mention the end of the world apparently coming October 28, 2011. I am pretty sure with cataclysmic
events will cause the release of biochemical virus’s to become air borne as well as in our water supplies.. Basically I am
saying I am trying to find others in my area who are preparing and who are willing to voyage out together to look for an
infection free zone. Which I feel from movies they have hinted us that Alaska might be one of those virus free areas…
Anyone who lives in south florida or is willing to make their way down here to help if the event ever should happen
please feel free to email me at doordie954@hotmail.com I am planning a trip to stock up and start making individual
backpacks with survival kits as well as survival protection per individual. =] ~Angel

i loved this .i came across it looking for zombie info for a art project i am working on with a group at IUOMA ,Zombie
Encyclopedia Project, whose goal is to create a freely available
PDF art-book for download by the general public by Halloween 2011.

i havn’t got to the survival kit ,but i did spead the last 4 hours reading the comments .some people were right on giving
you kudos, for getting our youth active. a lot of comments from the future caretakes of this planet. and the people who
think you were wasting our tax dallors probably did get as many hits as you did and will keep getting hits, just because
it’s a good subject. thanks loved it

This is amazing, it could be realistic, but with all these new flu’s and these super bugs going around…who know what
could happen….right on…M

good article, I like zombie movies are very good

I just checked this out after the earthquake and hurricane. I love this blog entry. It’s great! Thanks for making disaster
preparedness actually fun to read about! 🙂
To be honest if anybody really believes in zombies they need to check in with a mental institution I mean
I watch my share of horror films but I don’t actually believe it would happen in real life
It’s all a bunch of entertaining nonsense. That’s just my opinion. Peace out!!!

The is so fake i’m not stupid!!!

whowwwww whowwwww i cant wait for zombies to come at least therel be some fun in this world

I was never afraid of zombies have in Pelican

the zombie movies or series are excellent

Zombie Apocalypse is coming to Arbutus on Oct 30, 2011. We are having carnival games, food, music, raffles and a
zombie walk through town. it is all to support the Baltimore Animal Rescue and Care Shelter (BARCS) and the Arbutus
VFD.

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Stock up with big jars of cheap wine. I lived thru Northridge earthquake and afterwards, without power, without gas,
without water, for almost a week. Suddenly there is literally nothing to do. So, just post yourself on a coach, listen to
battery operated radio, if you have one, or read a book (hey, remember? there is something like that!) and sip your
burgundy. I guarantee, you’ll discover you never tried better wine than this one.

I’d add holly water against zombies.

i found this to be really cool, but i realize now how incredibly stupid the worlds population is.

Dude, awesome site, zombies freak me out, lol.

Just when I thought nothing would surprise me…. ZOMBIES on CDC! Awesome.
We only wish that in Argentina we had something like that…

I like movies about zombie))I’ve found a useful information about them.

Well In my conuntry at schoool they always teach us what we should take in an emergency situation, here is what I would
take:
* Large Size Backpack (Nylon)
* Bright Bar, 12 Hour (Green)
* Plastic whistle with cord
* First Aid Kit 37 Pieces
* Duct tape (Duct Tape), 50 yards (45.72 m)
* Tool 14 in 1 pocket
* Triple Opener, 1 pair
* Radio AM / FM, Flashlight, Alarm
* C-size batteries x2
* Solar Blanket
* Food Rations of 2400 Calories
* With Water Sachets x 10
* Emergency Poncho
* N95 respirator
* Biohazard Bag x2
* Work Gloves, Leather Palm
* Waterproof Matches, Box of 50
* Candles Emergency Slow Burn (pack of 5)

Thank you so much for such an informative post you have here. You have certainly put so much efort in making your
blogs. Keep it up!

I think it’s very strange, but great!)

Looks like your site is getting alot of visitors.

Chains, you have got to have chains to grip the pavement. After you run over a few hundred the tires start to get slippery
with zombie slop. A good set of chains will solve this problem.

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For all of you that think this page is nonsense, you are obviously missing the point. It’s a fun and humorous way to get
peoples attention to make a safety kit in case of emergencies. I would have never read this post if it didn’t involve
zombies. But who knows… Anything is possible…even perhaps zombies :-p

CDC knows that this will be cool and attractive to many young people. It is a clever and cunning way to sell messages. A
typical sales trick!
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If I get any zombies, I’ll just sick my horses on them, they are tough! I never really thought of this topic till now. Better
lock up!

When the AMC TV show The Walking Dead returns in October, I’m sure there will be more pointers on how to deal with
zombies.

It’s just a matter of time before someone makes zombie harnesses or roll cages and puts them to work going round and
round with a live chicken in a cage attached over their heads so they can turn a wheel attached to a device like a grinding
mill or small electrical generator to recharge car batteries in the trendy hybrid green cars. I know I would. The NO WORK,
NO FOOD rule should apply to them as well.

Woo Hoo! Zombie powered cars.

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Hello
I suggest Admin can set up a forum, so that we can talk and communicate.
Nancy

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You can always get supplies suggested above, but ofcourse, you won’t get far with alot of weapons!!! start collecting now!

I prefer to stick to max brooks survival methods instead of these amatuer ones.

So how do you stock up on prescription meds? Insurance companies won’t allow that!

I have a question for all you Nay sayers, All who believe this is a waste of “OUR” tax dollars… Do you say the same thing
bout the government wasting “OUR” tax dollars on preparing for Alien invasions?? Cause you believe there is no such
thing and believe we are alone in this Universe? then we really need to be spending “OUR” tax dollars on the ignorance in
this country… Believe that anything is possible. KUDOS to CDC.

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i’m not saying zombies are real, but in the world we live in today, it seemslike i see them on the 3 train everyday in new
york… but really, with all the dieseses out there, chemical wepons, and scientest trying to act like god and clone people,
you never know

Truth is when there is one, all of us posting saying we know what to do, atleast 50% of us will probably already be
infected. I plan on locking all the doors boarding up the windows, then barricading my garage, easy escape in a car :), Id
probably end up at a outdoor sports store like many of us looking for a decent weapon and a group of people to work
and travel with.

Zombie are coming back for Halloween 2011 in few days now. Watch behind your doors. Thanks for the apocalypse
zombie subject.

If a zombie apocolypse were to occur just remember to sever the brainstem of the zombie by any means necessary, or
just smack the crap out of its head. To add to the kit maybe steel toed boots in case you are out of weapons and there
are none in sight. Or just run away because zombies are very slow.

Also reading the comments made me realize how stupid society is. And whoever said zombies are fake better check their
research. We have the capabilities of reanimating the dead and the CDC is the ones with the crap to do so…. all of this
could be a hoax but they actually have had reports of zombies in haiti from about 35 years ago. The people were dead
and they were reanimated and walking around. They were not the stereotypical zombie that we see in the movies but
they were documented as zombies. Love or hate this post and think i am a nut job if you want… or look it up and find out
for yourself.

Grraarrrr, I am a Zombie

i have read this and will prepare for this or any other disaster i also found this really cool and funny.

A face mask is always good to keep the virus from spreading through the blood and landing in your mouth in case of
close combat situations,
hahaha
zomibe apocalips
if we survied it wolden’t be an apocolips
ahahaha

big thanks to the author for new)

Excellent post!

In a parallel universe this blog would be extremely hempful. Until the day that Zombie’é take over I know now what to
prepare for!!

Where there is the posibility of a Zombie outbreak it is unlikely that it will happen in the manner we think it will.
Preparedness is a great aspect and in many ways this article brought to light a fun way to get people to prepare for any
sort of disaster. I am glad it was written the way it was and I am disgusted with people complaining over tax payers
money. I mean seriously, I pay taxes, I support learning even if it is through unorthdox means.

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We were watching deadliest warrior, and saw the vampires VS zombies and looked up a guide in case of a zombie
apocolypse. Very helpful. If you guys could make one for vampires that would be good, start working on it.

I understand the Zombie metaphor for emergency preparedness, I think a lot of people posting here do not. Emergency
preparedness is not really a joking matter. This is really just a “what would you do if society collapsed and
police/emergency responders could not respond” scenario, based on movies and pop culture.
What scares me more than the dead coming back to life is the threat of “brain-dead” people preparing for “zombies”, or
worse, voting.

Halloween Campaign! CDC zombie stickers and info with the treats!!

Actually, I just read the book “The Great Influenza,” saw the movie “Contagion” with Paltrow & Damon), and watched the
PBS Influenza 1918 episode online. What can I say? I got curious. I would take zombies over influenza any day. It was like
Voldemort – by 1919 it was that “which should not be named.”

So educate the unwashed masses about pandemics/epidemics with costumes, treats, themes… and post the CDC badge
on your facebook page for Halloween….

Zombies
1918 Influenza (Where Edward became a Vampire)
Contagion quarenteen (for a more modern approach)

I’m ready for zombies, I’m 18 now and I just got a motorcycle, I got my car license in a cheap van, a 1994 toyota hiace. I
no longer use the van now so I welded on some steel screens over the the windows and added a high power multi
frequency radio and television receiver and radio transmitter luckily I have some home made katanas if things go bad.
Also in the van there is a water purification system, a homemade extra large fuel emergency fuel tank. I n the van I used
to have big subwoofers, requiring big amps requiring a big power supply, I ripped the subs and other sound gear out,
leaving the power supply, 4 high output alternators and 10 deep cycle batteries. The power supply in that van used to
power a sound system loud enough to be in a concert, but it’s more than enough for a couple radios.

Well, call it over kill, but this was more of a fun back yard project than a zombie apocalypse, although if there ever is this
kind of crisis, I will be well prepared, but for now imm putting the subwoofers back in

I HOPE THIS IS A JOKE. Because My Worst Fear Are zombies..

Hey this is really very good post. I liked it

What must I do if in zombie I trust, but my parents not.

I can’t make my medkit and protection, ’cause they think it doesn’t exist

If it does happenlogicly it would be more like 28u days later, not dead ppl coming back noway.
An the disease work likely be a form of rabies tht has mutated an took on the appearance of H5N1 (avian) flu with the
way it rapidly spreads in humans.
so let’s say u are immune to it, go u, all I gotta say is hope. U ain’t outa shape cause running is who u are now, yes my
fellow americans I hope u take this to heart we need PT( physical training) cause let’s face it we’ve been a spoiled country
for years obesity is the number one health risk an weu talk bout it like its polio.PUT THE FORK DOWN HIT THE
TREADMILL AN IF UR LUCKY U MIGHT NOT GET LEFT BEHIND. Thnx for reading

P. S.
Survival kits will keep u alive if u think practical wen packing.
Always remember noise and light disapline.
Use battle buddies(buddy system )
be tactical about everything u do.
I can’t stress this enough, in a high stress situation don’t flip out an go screaming to the floor
No matter if its a fire fight, or u missed placed ur keys just remember
SLOW IS SMOOTH SMOOTH IS FAST. If u ever use tht Ull understand.

: this is for the social peterist tht r complainin bout the cdcs concern for a zombie apocalypse.
do u really believe ur taxes went up because of simple informational website? U can stop speaking now. I am in the US
army infantry and if I was a conservative miser I would complain about sum of the stuff they pay us to do, like play
football for hours, or take naps all on ur tax dollaar$. 😉
plus its not them taking it serious its to prove they r really trying
to make sure the covered EVERYTHING so the next time whiny ppl wanna blame sumone an get sumthing for nothing
like they don’t already have welfare it wont be them getting forced into paying unlawful restitution

This is just a way to make emergency preparation interesting! And I like it! But in the event a real zombie invasion would
occur, I highly doubt it has time for government bureaucracy! Most likely during a zombie invasion martial law will be
dictated so it would be best to have an abundance of supplies and protection in your home, and I would advise not
leaving it until the local authorities escort you to safety!

wow:) the one fear that i’v had for the longest time. any time i say any thing on it people look at me like im crazy and now
thire all preparing to. lol thats crazy

super beast got kit just wating for it to happen

this is cool i am a true believer i kind of hope this happens zombies a scary and awsome and i will have to write this stuff
down i made a list of things that would be helpfull
Canned foods, rope, 1 or 2 tents, wood, nails, backpacks, sleeping bags, weapons of some kind, water, compass (2 just in
case one gets lost), rope saw, solar-powered flashlights, water fillter, canteens,lighters/fire starters, medical kit, duck
tape, soap, and other bathroom items.
f.y.i im 14😀
If ur lookin for protection get a shark bite proof suit they sell them cheap online and if they can protect u from a shark ull
be safe from zombie bites and it’s lite weight unlike chain mail which is heavy as hell so u can maneuver easily and get
away with out getting infected by a lucky scratch

I love this! Just too funny! With Halloween coming soon its time to get ready! And if you don’t want to be one, why not
dress like one and hide within the group as the go around doing whatever crazy stuff zombies do?

But all joking aside I think the comment by voice and reason:
I understand the Zombie metaphor for emergency preparedness, I think a lot of people posting here do not. Emergency
preparedness is not really a joking matter. This is really just a “what would you do if society collapsed and
police/emergency responders could not respond” scenario, based on movies and pop culture.
What scares me more than the dead coming back to life is the threat of “brain-dead” people preparing for “zombies”, or
worse, voting.

Now they got it right..

that is so nice i really enjoy read this…..

Some people need to lighten up! At least it got you to the site where you can read more information that you MIGHT
NEED TO KNOW. Take a deep breath and relax…..

I think this is a great posting. Fun and still informative about what to do in general emergencies. A great way to connect
with the younger crowd. This is actually good stuff.

This is great! Hats off to the CDC for having a sense of humor. I truly enjoyed this – thank you!
I love how prople cant see this for what it is: straightforward preparedness info. The word “zombie” is simply to describe
the starving criminal hoards who are going to be looting during a major disaster.

By the way, I disagree with the fact that defensive (or offensive…) weapons are completely ignored. Maybe the CDC
thinks its out of the scope of a minimalist preparednedd article, but I disagree.

I think a full body condom is appropriate for bashing zombie skullz with aluminum and cricket bats, thus protecting you
from evil zombie bodily fluids.

And………..if everyone else is a zombie, who will be around to say that necrophilia is still unacceptable………ha ha (Dr. Evil
laugh)

This is great. Finally, a creative way to get us (at least me) to read about preparing for a disaster. The real zombies are
the poor souls who complain that this is a waster of tax money and miss the whole point of the article. Imagine them
when a real disaster hits…”give me your water…”.

I love that the threat of zombies will probably enlighten more people to prepare for dangerous circumstances than the
threat of a hurricane or flood. Oh cdc, brilliant. So when something bad does happen and you’re thinking “oh no, what
do I do!?” you can be like… “well… I do have my zombie appocolypse bag. I GUESS I could use this.” You’ve all just been
conned into being prepared for actual threats ^O^

Is it true that there a vaccine-zombie link? Just one more reason not to get vaccinated!

Some of these comments are so dumb; I’d consider their authors “The Walking Dead.” What should my kit include to
survive them?

Is there something you guys aren’t telling us? Seems like there have been a lot of zombie articles from the CDC and News
stations lately lol..

Great stuff! Can these products be used in response to rabid teabaggers? I see then wandering through the streets
droning on about the end of the world all the time.

Keep up the good work!

…The real reason for the CDC posting this is because the same tools that will help you survive a zombie outbreak will
help you survive any natural disaster, epidemic or otherwise Sh!t Hit The Fan senatio (SHTFs). Food, water, utility knife,
radio, flashlight fire starting equipment ect. Still pretty humorous however.

All the better if this gets people to prepare for more realistic disasters such has hurricanes and tornadoes.

I have three backpacks(one for each member of my family) in my garage already packed with re-chargeable lights,
radios, various survival equipment, MRE’s, first aid, and a host of other essentials including maps with route plans. When
preparing this, I remembered to plan for my dog. Dont forget man’s best friend when escaping from that throng of
zombies.

There are destination and route plans for contigencies such as wildfires, tsunami, social unrest, and
radiological/biological accidents. Dont forget your Iodine pills and masks. Knowing a bit of history about your area is
always good, who knows when that abandoned mine will become handy shelter in a bind.

Well i mean better safe than sorry but getting prepared for a zombie invasion is borderline crazy, can’t they be focused
on things like cancer and other REAL diseases, not fears caused by Hollywood

The zombies will come!!! Be prepared, have a vehicle with plenty of fuel first off. Keep it near your safety zone which you
should go to FIRST thing you learn of the zombies reaching your area. Have a group of at least 5 people that you
trust(with your life prefreferably) and stay in the safe zone within the area of your safe zone with minimum contact with
the outside, only have 1 access point for maximum safety(make it hard to get to without help from your group). Those
are the basics of what you need to do when the infection hits. If you think im crazy… Good, that just means I will survive
longer, and who knows. Maybe I’ll kill the zombie you 🙂
Hahaha…this is so cool. I never expected a gov related blog, i.e. the CDC, to put up a post on zombies. Any way when you
run out of bullets, is to get a scary zombie costume and pretend to be one of them. And if you do that, you have to
remember to cover yourself with decaying zombie juice so that they smell your human blood…..lol
For those who comment negatively about this post, not to worry… you guys are exempt. Zombies only go after brains.

nice

I would also suggest a change of underwear for each family member. Maybe two.

I am sure that I work with zombies regularly….They are certainly the walking dead as they enter in the morning, and do
not perk up until around 5:00pm as they exit…

Incredible

As much as I would love to agree with the idea of “blending in with the zombies” as stated by Zombie Man in post 492. I
would strongly suggest to not cover yourself with zombie juice as this will be teaming with the virus and therefore you
might as well off yourself because – well you know what will happen!!!

What an excellent way to get people to prepare for real-life emergency scenarios! Whoever thought up this post should
get a bonus. It’s a great use of humor to get a point across. Of course, some people have missed the point; they’re
probably the same ones who spend months planning their Halloween fancy dress costumes but expect other people to
rescue them.

This is great! Each year, I give a little speech to the local boy scout troop on emergency preparedness and living in
Florida, it is a reality more often than not. This web-site helped get the speech off to a rollicking start and turned it into
an interactive learning opportunity. These adolescent males are more likely to put something together in their homes if
they can tell their friends and families they are preparing for a Zombie attack. CDC rocks!

I have been observing that some people on my steet seem peeked and are lumbering about. Is this the beggining of the
end?

the sad part is a zombie (aka reanimated corpse) is a very reasonable idea scientists have been toying with the idea of
reanimating dead tissue for a loooong time and have gotten as far as using electrical impulses to do this temporarily of
course but if something like rabies mutated out of control it is very possible since rabies does affect and takes control of
the brain and use things such as the classic bite to spread the contagion so yes a zombetic like outbreak is a rational
idea.

fake it is not gonna happen only god knows

My house is booby trapped..But still got some finial supplies to collect thanks CDC!!

Play plants vs zombies! the game will teach u how zombies attack in many ways

do tazers work on zombies?

I just love you CDC

!

*faint*, I know zombie invasion could be a threat, but this is one step too much!

good to see a post like this from the gov!

Thank gawd we support such important research with our tax dollars. . .though i will start carrying a bat in the trunk of
my car.

http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/#comment-3780

@Crashemt

I had to link your idiotic comment btw “crashemt”

Seriously? Who cares how much it cost the CDC to makes this, I’m sure it wasn’t much and it was as lighthearted, fun way
to bring attention to the underlying theme of a disaster preparedness kit. Good lord, are your reading comprehension
skills that low? They must be. Anyways, if you were a “huge zombie fan” like you claim, then you wouldn’t have left such a
nitpicking comment. Grow up.
Great job CDC! Very few people would normally read about disaster preparedness from a government website. Those
who would are likely prepared anyway. You just got the message through to a much larger cross-section of the
population. Very smart.

Is the general public that stale stating about tax payers dollars wasted for this? I thought this to be a very creative way to
use our tax dollars to alert people on how to prepare for a disaster or emergency. Also how the CDC works to combat
these situations. Sure they may be using one of the biggest hypes in media right now, but regardless it gets the message
out. The person who wrote it was already getting paid for what they do and they did a fine job if their aim was to get a
message across about real situations using a popular (false for now) one. I’d appriciate it if more government agencies
could be this creative. I’ll be purchasing my zombie task force shirt to help donate some money to help out for real
disasters.

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So this kinda gets me thinking. Maybre the gov. does have some kinda virus that can make someone into something like
a zombie..i am a little concerned now

lol doesnt this post tell us all something, it amuses me that even our center for disease control has taken measures to
prepare us for something they say they know nothing about

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Dude if u get bitten by one of them ur done…. if ur bitten don’t go to ur kit ask someone to kill u… cuz thats how they
spread fast.. and dont trie to communicate to zombies they r just a virus controlling the nerves like a puppet.. and they
feed allllll day and alll night

This is a great way to get youths interested and involved in preparing for an emergency. At least they can identify an
emergengy with zombie-apocalypse and act accordingly.

This is a great way to get youths interested and involved in preparing for an emergency. At least they can identify an
emergengy with zombie-apocalypse and act and react accordingly if and when the time comes.

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I love how they left out some kind of weapon for self defense or protection against the Zombie hord. ie a ton of guns and
ammo. Anyone who forgets that important part of the Z plan will be the bait and food for the zombies so everyone else
can escape 🙂
Thanks for taking care of that part of my plan for me CDC. Now i dont have to sacrafice one of my friends
so i can escape.

I dont think a zombie apocalypse is anywhere near our futures, however the the use of the “zombie apocalypse” to grab
the attention of its readers to in a sense prepare them for any natural disaster was a beyond brilliant idea. Just saying.

I do not believe that any of you guys actually think zombies exist.
Emergency preparedness is not really true, better get ready for the end of the world because we are not taking care of it.

The people who are complaining that this is a waste of government money need to go back and reread the article.

I’m all for eliminating government waste, but this does not really qualify as waste. (At least no more of a waste than
normal government spending)

If you read the article carefully you will notice that it is cleverly disguised message general disaster preparedness. See
references to hurricanes, fires, tornados etc.

Come on people!

awesomee a zombie apocalypse even iff i dont belive in it its going to be awesome i knowee my ruless and imma
survivor for that cant wait but if they run we’ll be messed up you knoww imma get my ninja sworddsss and im 13 yrs old
no liess. i go to deady middle school im an 8th grader and im preparedd 😀
yea right

i highly doubt that will happen juss belive in the positives

I think that this a great way for the CDC to reach out to wider variety of people on how to prepare themselves for a real
emergency. An I also think that some of the people that have left comments about the waste of their on working on this
information are just making themselves sound stupid. It is quite obvious from the way that different types of disasters
are stressed in the article that the CDC is, in fact, just using this spin to get people prepared for common emergencies.
Maybe you people who thought more about the whole zombie aspect should take more time to actually read and
understand the information.

this is so cool! and the survival kit info is really helpful too……

Howdy I am so excited I found your website, I really found you by accident, while I was searching on Digg for something
else, Anyways I am here now and would just like to say cheers for a remarkable post and a all round interesting blog (I
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Wow…For all of you who say this can’t happen…better think again… Let’s all watch what happens as our citizens continue
rising up against this government, protesting inciting civil disobedience and such… They wont beat us or shoot us..they
have other plans… Just my theory…Turning us into zombies doesn’t sound so far fetched to me!

While I agree with the people who are concerned about government waste, I disagree with the target. This post cost no
more than – a very liberal estimate – thousands of dollars. If you are concerned with cutting government waste look no
further than your elected Congressman.

im preparing for when the koalas attack! :3

The zombies are coming

Nice post dude.. I will also support government

double tap….

People take everything so literally! You nay sayers are going on the version of zombies that are portrayed in the movies
when everyone knows that movies are an overblown version of actual events or details or things that either can or have
happened. I think a “zombie apocalypse” is possible but it wouldn’t be actual re animated corpses walking around eating
people but crazy, starving, violent, mentally and motor function impaired people who maybe have a leprosy like
condition is not that far fetched and the high communicability rate in other pandemics are already a reality. Don’t be
naive to how real a situation like this may be… especially given the radiation that is currently in our atmosphere.

~Another Zombie Warrior~

God, I hope this is just a parody and not really real. For real, CDC? Some of your writters watch too much Resident Evil.

the zombie apocalypse is for real and we are preparing for it

It’s a pity you don’t have a donate button! I’d without a doubt donate to this fantastic blog! I guess for now i’ll settle for
book-marking and adding your RSS feed to my Google account. I look forward to new updates and will talk about this
site with my Facebook group. Chat soon!

ok here is an up to date post.im not here to play games or tell jokes .inffection/outbreak has already strarted in brooklyn
new york and its really happening right now as we speak cdc must find a way to control this outbreak before it get wores
asap.

the fact of a zombie out break is irrational …that fact the a zombie is a bag of rotting flesh would attract flies maggots
animals ect. and they would eventually rot down to noting with no muscles to move and thus no way to feed and spread
unless there was a fresh group of 100 zombies made weekly

Zombies are already here; they’re called sheeple, and many of them are present commenting on this very article.

Awesome blog!!!

Great way to get some attention to the CDC, what you do, and how you help people in times of crisis. Seriously, you PR
person deserves a raise off of this one. Now if we can just get the Obama Administration to support it…think Vote
Zombie Zombie Democrat/Zombie Republican 2012…would make for a pretty awesome shirt or campaign
button/bumper sticker

Great to see the CDC finally taking this issue more seriously. If you want to really outlive the zombies, however, you are
going to need backpacking equipment, and it better be if you expect to outrun the zombies.
The last thing you want to do is to leave your town. Don’t leave home unless you have to, pick a place that you know will
be safe near by. Everyone else will try to leave town, so that will cause traffic jams, and will leave you all like sitting ducks.
Basically waiting to get eaten. Don’t go where the food is (humans.)

YES!!! One Day Somethings Gonna Happen, And we have the CDC to thank for prepping us!!!! I Belive it def can happen,
What about Dec. 12 2012??? lol Its Possible!!! But i dnt belive the CDC will be there for us all the way though…its one man
for himself right?

zombies are real! Run for your bunny lives :O

I am very happy we have Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse, and as another person wrote I believe we need :

Preparedness 101 : Mass ninja attack

Preparedness 101 : Godzilla comes to USA
Preparedness 101 : Hostile UFO’s
Preparedness 101 : Mass bunny insertion

But I feel these fall under the military not CDC.

Great job CDC!

I think my manager is a zombie. He smells bad and has a blank look in his eyes like nobody is home. What should I do?

I CAN’T WAIT for the conspiracy theorists to weigh in on this one! WE’RE DOOOOOOooomed! Love it…

I like your site and its layout. You do a good job here; continue the fine efforts.

I think some of you are missing the point here. The CDC isn’t admitting that the zombie apocalypse is now a real threat,
they’re using it as a way to get people to unknowingly prepare for disasters that are more likely to occur. Hence the word
“real” being italicized in the article. With all the crazy diseases out there, I’m sure there’s something that might cause a
zombie-like outbreak, but it’s obvious that people would rather prepare for something that will never happen over things
that happen around them daily.

Great information you got here. I’ve been reading about this topic for one week now for my papers in school and thank
God I found it here in your blog. I had a great time reading this.

I saw epsode 6 of the show the walking dead (3) weeks ago and ive been having nightmares ever since this just made it
worse

I know this is way late but,I wanna read the zombie comic and all I get is a pdf file in scripts when i just wanna read
it!what do I do!??!

well…
very nice post dude, i like it….

Aliens!!!!

I feel that the zombie appocolypse will happen not by a dieses that kill you then brings you brings you back to life but in
fact attacts the nervous system killing brain cells and erasing every sense of being civil. it will bring out the inner savage,
so pretty much making people go crazy.

Awesomeness. Love this.

Whatever you do….. DONT SHOOT BILL MURRAY!

instead of reporting to a Red Cross chapter can’t they make it official to go to costco?

wonderful preparedness guide to have at this time of year.

however, I was sorely disappointed not to see this page referenced under “Z” in the A-Z index!

http://www.cdc.gov/az/z.html

Zombies 101: Never trust any governmental organization during zombie apocalypse.
I love Zombies!

No, James. I think the article is wasteful, having read it.

The “undead” are entertainment, disaster preparedness is not- or at least shouldn’t be. I understand the idea of the
article by Khan was to be fun but I just don’t believe that we should blur a serious viral outbreak with Hollywood horror
movies when giving real emergency guidelines to people who really need it. Should Ali Khan do the next one on foreign
vampires, and how to survive being attacked likened to an Ebola virus outbreak in a third world country with risk of it
spreading here?

See? One subject is fun, the other just isn’t.

This is awesome but they obviously aren’t serious they are just trying to find a more enticing way to prepare people for a
more imminent disaster lol

MAN , I CANT WAIT FOR THIS TO HAPPEN!I’M ALREADY!!!!BRING IT ON!!!!

Just to let all of you non-believers out there know. This will happen! That is exactly why the US Government has posted
this website! If you do not believe you will perish! So get ready while you can and at least be prepared for the worst.

BELIEVE IT!!!

I’ve been to the CDC site MAYBE once before (not my first choice of a web search, right?). But curiosity got the best of me
and I had to see what CDC has to say of this dreadful matter. LO AND BEHOLD I’ve picked up some more tips on
safety/disaster preparedness, and that I can also point out this link to loved ones and friends !! All wrapped in an
entertaining package! It’s about educating ourselves… –MISSION ACCOMPLISHED CDC–

zombies go for flesh, not brains. its a well known fact for any person educated in the world of zombie knowledge.
therefore you i.e. is false.

How You Know that’s really going to happen, I’m A Christian Person So I Don’t Believe in that fake stuff

Is it really going to happen? Is it even possible? Some say No, but as the above article mentions i rekon its coming so to
have your survival kit ready makes sense.

You should also learn survival skills for most major disasters.

It is especially poiniant here in Thailand at the moment where the flooding just seems to get worse and worse and the
rain never seems to stop.

We have all ready ran out of most essentials like bread and water is now getting pretty expensive.

Anyway thanks for the tips, and keep an eye on Bangkok, we might need you very, very soon!

thanks

Mark

For all of you complaining about how much this cost YOU, get your panties out of your crack. It’s a funny way of getting
you prepared for ANY type of natural or unnatural disaster. The Government wastes tax payer money on much
“dumber” things. The one’s complaining will be the FIRST ones crying about the Government’s lack of response if such a
crisis did develop. Also, this ISN’T so far fetched as they DO have the biological means of turning this into a reality…do a
little research. Bravo CDC!

think you guys are really taking this to serious and if it does happen all of us will die nobodys going to live you cant be
the resident evil girl

Armor, lots of armor!

Whatever is stronger that teeth or nails.

Steve
1X57

They sleep during the day. They awaken at night. They are among us, and yet not quite fully human. It’s a … ZOMBIE! No,
wait, .. it’s a BABY! … Huh?

A Baby’s First Book of Zombies is a title for young children and their parents which playfully explores the parallels
between babies and zombies and the process by which parents slowly become zombies during their first year of
parenthood. By alternating between scenes which are very silly and scenes that are just a little bit creepy, young children
can begin to learn the joys of incorporating monsters into their imaginary worlds.

Come visit our Kickstarter campaign at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1002297760/a-babys-first-book-of-zombies!

personally id invest in a couple well made machetes and a hunting crossbow with plenty of bolts.

Nice Post. Thanks for sharing information.

I’m glad I found your blog and this information, it is a good idea to have a place planned for where the family will meet
just in case something happens. I will be mentioning this to the family soon. Thx.

i love this Hurry CDC release sumthing so this can happen already im ready to fight some damn zombies! lol

sean. i do believe you are ignorant to this matter. Of course it wont be “zombies” but a virus similar to the creature.
There are already rage viruses in 3rd world countries cause innocent citizens to become infected and filled with hunger
and rage going ravenous on the village. there have been reports. this is a potent threat and i do think people should take
this serious. with the technology we have today and all the research our government does not tell is is going on there is
possiblity that a virus has already been constructed. no im not one of those paranoid freaks. im a 17 year old teenager
who lives in a tiny ass town called deltona. i do however have a fascination with these creatures. i have researched this
for the past 2 years and have found evidence that a “zombie apocalypse” is possible. wether or not you believe there is
no reason you shouldnt prepare for this just in case. like great mind have said before i shall say it again. “Nothing is
impossible” we do have scientists already looking into these “zombies”. not just in america but in japan, korea, and even
russia. again. this is a potent threat that i believe should be taken serious.
(and if you want to survive, get a damn boat.) zombies cant swim T.T

oh btw. if you want a real guide on how to survive this potent threat. buy world war z. its worth the money. trust me

LOL this is Funny!!!

hey. the zombie apocalypse is real. peace

I thought this was hilarious and creative what a better way to get some very needed info out to people who would
otherwise never read it. Its sad to think that people believe in Zombies and would be concerned about an imaginary
threat as opposed to a real one like a Hurricaine or a terror attack. Good job CDC

Am I the only one worried about Yale’s use of the Rabies virus to kill cancer?
http://www.realclearscience.com/2011/08/30/rabies-like_virus_kills_childhood_cancers_242841.html.

This is totally how every zombie movie starts…

Here are a few more scenarios you might consider:

– rampaging genetically re-created T-Rex (a la Jurassic Park)
– Extraterrestrial invasion
– planetary collision
– worldwide financial collapse caused by incompetent greedy investment banks (forget it; too unlikely)
– nuclear war caused by blithering idiot in White House using wrong phone to order pizza
– Tea Party presidential candidate winning election
– Eton College alumnus becoming British Prime Minister (Oh no, already happened, aaaaiiiiiieeeeee!!!!!!)

I thought the comic was entertaining and educational. I have printed the preparedness guide for future reference. I feel
that the CDC is always looking out for all of us and our families.
Thank you for this helpful preparedness advice. I would like to suggest that it also pays to educate yourself about the
best tactics to take ahead of time, so that in an emergency, when you have little time to think, you will make smart
choices.

I love zombies! They taste great with BBQ sauce!

Mmmmmmm…..

A Zombie doesn’t need to eat your brains to kill you, If he carries a deadly infectious virus that’s what will eat you alive.
But if you have to, destroy it’s brain and get running! (that’s the only way to kill a Zombie I hear) Believe it or not this is all
news to me and I thank you for the Informative info!

We just watched Zombieland last week. Somebody was thinking when this approach was chosen! Great way to get the
message across!

Congratulations for just earning yourselves a HUGE fanbase now. When you start needing more funding, I suggest you
make a more comprehensive list for the Zombie Apocalypse. Trust me when I say that there are plenty of people willing
to pay for that.

Zombie apocalypse, giant earth quake, a meteorite the size of the moon hitting earth, or however it is that the world is
gonna end. Either way, all I know is that I’m gonna survive it, no matter how hard it will be, there is always a way. And I
😛
ain’t ready to die! I still have lots to do in my life.

NBC nightly news mentioned this post in its broadcast yesterday. I doubted it at first, but it is true. OMG.

I think it is time that we see Zombies in the light of “they are (or were) people too” and initiate laws to protect the rights
and dignity of Zombies. We must not let fear run amok and become haters of things we do not understand.

I like zombies …

Oh please I do not think any of that from the zombies and the apocalypse. This is science fiction, and uqe humans have
enough intelligence to sencivilidad and Morino anything other than this.

Manuela Perez

Of course, I have been 4ever.

Come visit my new forum, for anything zombie related. Make an account, start some threads, and help us grow! Thank
you. http://zombie101.forumotion.com/

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LAME! They do this on our money. Shameful!

I honestly do believe that there is/will be a new disease that will end up taking the human race away that servive the
natural disasters. You think its funny. But have you heard of anyone getting sick for months straight? Thinking your over
it but its not gone at all its just slowly going to get worse and you don’t know it. That is why humans are getting so violent
more because they get angry over something so small you will kill the other person, not really biting them or anything
but find something else to use. I believe that the zombies will be the devils creation to wipe out the rest of human race
that worship him. That is just my theory/opinion. I don’t know what will happen when the world ends but I do know that I
have so many friends who have horrible zombie dreams that seem so realistic and a lot of them have the same dreams
together. I say be prepared for whatever, may never know what will happen or how it will happen. Just be prepared for
the worst.

Is it true that the CIA, has intel that a certain govt. is working on bio-manipulation techniques for the mutation of existing
diseases, in order to produce zombie like conditions in live subjects.

I have to get my emergency kit updated. Didn’t see too many zombies on the 31st.

For those who are angered by this article because you think it’s a waste of taxpayer’s money, it’s not about a fictional
zombie apocalypse. It’s about preparing for ANY emergency, fictional or not. This article seems to appeal to the younger
generation and it shows them to prepare for anything, even if it is a zombie apocalypse. Imagine now how many people
have accessed this article and read this? To some of our younger generation people, this could encourage us to have an
Emergency kit, just because we would be ready for a zombie take over. Despite the fact that they made it to prepare for
a zombie apocalypse, they’d still have an emergency kit right? Exactly…
Which came first? chicken or the egg

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All this talk about over population maybe the cdc needs to make a disease to wake up some Zombies. Think about it,
sure would help stop all the useless murdering in the world. Plus all the crazy people in the world would get a chance to
kill something without consequences or would that be called RE-KILLING. Oh well Good luck all

Ya know many ppl are mad about their tax dollars for this but 3 things are wrong with that. 1. The CDC addressed that in
this article so one your dumb and didn’t read it. 2. This is a front to get geeks who know zombies are going to take over
someday to read this so they make money and 3. and acctual zombie apocolips is acctually a very likely way for the
world to end, more likly it will be an infection not zombies but rabies is the closest to zombies we have. 28 days later is
the most realistic zombie movie out there, and yes i know it’s an infection movie but it’s the closest one to real zombies
and most probable.

The survival kit really doesn’t cover zombies that much i noticed, it’s really a joke to them but maybe they really should
take it more serious, if an outbreak happened, and i say outbreak not zombies, could be rabies or rage or any new virus
mutation, maybe swine flue, then it would spread fast and cause chayos if the government or states didn’t step in on
time, We should take this seriously cause it could end the world, if even 50% or even 30% of ppl who read it took it
seriously it would be mission accomplished. Weapons will be needed…Good luck to all of you when the shit hits the fan.
Be observant, aware, and always ready.

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OMFG are u all insane ?? zombie attack?? ccccccc

Awesome!!!! I always thought people should be aware of the possibility of a zombie apocalypse. BTW Bo …..don’t get
ahead of yourself. It’s not exclusively about being prepare for zombies but being prepare for other “realistic” disasters.

Also remember money will be worth nothing! You need a safe blace with no vents! They will smell you! Also be quiet and
if you have a battery opperated radio. get ear plugs and ALOT of batteries!Water, canned foods, including cannedf fruits!
Charcole for cooking and matches out the ass!Remember Zombies go where there are people, so, they’ll seek out
groceries and churches! Sorry, the lord helps them who help themselves! Don’t get caught up with all that shit! Survive!!!
We’ll need to repopulate so keep yourself clean so we can have healthy children!!!! Hord weapons and ammo! Anything
you can get to kill a zombie! Look in your garage I’m sure there are plenty of weapons! Remember YOU have to survive!
Neighbors whonever introduced themselves don’t matter!!!You get out alive, we can make friends later! If I think of
anything else I’ll let you know! We’ll need a special sign so we know whos’ who!!! Gimme some ieas!

Also remember money will be worth nothing! You need a safe blace with no vents! They will smell you! Also be quiet and
if you have a battery opperated radio. get ear plugs and ALOT of batteries!Water, canned foods, including cannedf fruits!
Charcole for cooking and matches out the ass!Remember Zombies go where there are people, so, they’ll seek out
groceries and churches! Sorry, the lord helps them who help themselves! Don’t get caught up with all that shit! Survive!!!
We’ll need to repopulate so keep yourself clean so we can have healthy children!!!! Hord weapons and ammo! Anything
you can get to kill a zombie! Look in your garage I’m sure there are plenty of weapons! Remember YOU have to survive!
Neighbors who never introduced themselves don’t matter!!!You get out alive, we can make friends later! If I think of
anything else I’ll let you know! We’ll need a special sign so we know whos’ who!!! Gimme some ieas!

Oh I forgot! Keep your full! Gas willbe needed to get you out of a bad situation! Weather it be a tornado, eathquake or
flood!..or ZOMBIES! take extra gas in cans in your vehichle! Keep a spare tire too! Never know! Never stop, just go go
go!!!

The CDC doesn’t seem to understand just how dumb the average person is. There are people who actually believe that
there’s going to be a zombie apocalypse now.

I see no mention on zombie brain deactivating devices ie. guns, baseball bats, clubs, crowbars, etc.

I say if zombies strike is to start creating an underground safe house so you dont get eaten but if something more
realistic happens then do what this web page has talked about. But also dont be all uptight and ready for disater to
strike at any moment but to have it in mind and be ready. We no matter what happens will survive!!!!

I agree with Naomi. Underground safehouses are key. If you can’t secure a radio station, go underground!

This is zombies, not rabies, no irrational fear of water!

Thanks to the CDC for the preparedness guide!

Remember how important it is to Kill the zombies!

Join the conversation!

My suggestion for any type of disaster or preparing for zombies or a disease outbreak would be to first have a back pack
setup with plenty of dry food, one of those water filtering bottles with extra filters and purification tablets as well as the
other obvious stuff and a hand gun to defend what you have in the event that you need to bug out in a hurry. If you do
have to bug out, get away from populated ares as far as you can. Second if you are in a good defendable location stay
there and dig in for as long as you can. I live on the top floor of an apartment complex 3 stories up. one steel door
coming in with an enclosed balcony, Easily defendable. Clean water, Food, and Self Defence should be your top priority.

Haha, we started collecting some supplies al ready, if there is a zombie apocalypse. The un zombified peoples real
chance of survival depends on what kind of zombies they are, will they be able to think independently? Or will they be
brain dead veggies? With they literally be walking dead, therefore having natural enemies like the cold, bugs, and
animals? Or will they be humans with sickly skin and just cannibalistic,humans being able to spot hidden doors in the
floor and work out problems? stuff like that..

Im pretty sure everyone is enthused about a zombie apocalypse.-enough said

it’s about time someone said something about it everyone think i’m crazy

Really? Zombie Invasion?

Although i find it HIGHLY possible for a zombie attack to really happen, i think this post is nothing but a way to actually
atract more people to the site and read what they need to do to get prepared for an actuall disaster like hurricanes and
earthquakes, so by using something that many people have an intrest in like zombies, they can (not necsisarly trick
them,because preparing for any disaster is something everybody should do) but just accumilate more people to the site
so more people are prepared,because its evident that disastrs are happening all over the world more frequently. so i
dont think they are taking the zombie apocalypse seriosly, i just think they are using it to make people better prepared
for ACTUAL REAL DISASTERS THAT HAPPEN NOT JUST ONCE BUT EVERYDAY AROUND THE WORLD. so yeah reading this
doesnt get me excited and tricked into thinking that this will really happen, because i see this post for what it really is.

Sorry, I meant “bows and arrows”…. my bad

I *heart* you CDC!!!

I would just go around acting like a zombie!

For the last week I’ve actually took the whole possiblity of a rage virus being real. I think it should be taken more serious.”
Like how do you kill a zombie” I guess I have to watch the movies to fnd that out.

Brilliant and much appreciated. Some clever people at the CDC have provided us with an exception to the rule that our
government is populated exclusively by humorless automatons. As for the one or two commenters out of every fifty that
disapprove: people who think that way are usually the least prepared and the first to be eaten.

Nice to see that there are some in our government that have both a brain and a sense of humor!

That was quite possibly the only way you could have gotten me to visit the CDC website and actually read an emergency
preparedness blog!!

There is a sleeper type support cell in Mississippi if you live in the USA. We are prepared for anything, whether it’s
Zombies or a National Invasion. Nothing and No one will take over Mississippi. In the event of an Emergency you may
come here we will still be standing strong. Mississippi is a big state but we will have a base set up in Hernando and
Booneville. We are currently scouting for four more cities, two in central and two in south Mississippi. If you know of an
Average sized city that will be easy to find, I’m interested.

I love the fact that even the CDC has taken advantage of the Zombie Craze to get its message of preparedness out to the
masses. Good job guys.

well im set, i got boxes of c rations and a few guns in the house,aint non zombies touchin me

wow its really cool to see this movie the ZOMBIE i love watching movie when i get home. thank’s for sharing with us.
This is great. There are tons of other resources out there too. If you prepare for zombies, you are prepared for
everything! My favorite site out there is ZETA – it prepares you in great details for zombies and more.

There are other sites out there too, but this one is funny. But at the same time, full of useful information.

For those who say a weapon should be included in the kit, in general disaster situations, (obviously you know the article
is not actually about zombies as zombies are not real) having weapons can actually be more of a liability then a resource.
First of all people need to be properly trained to use weapons or else they will kill friends and family members by
mistake. Second of all possessing weapons could cause National Guards men to mistake you for a looter and get
yourself shot. It’s better to just let the looters loot your house and wait until the National Guard arrives. If looters get
what they want, they won’t harm you. Plus you can always replace your material possessions once the disaster is over
and you have regained all your financial losses.

Get yours before their gone…

They’re gone…

CDC needs a proofreader.

Again the basic survivor skills are presented as life saver in emergency situations. Interesting post, thanks 🙂
Its good CDC coverd this for other emergencies. My concern is that is the CDC trying to tell us something in one way but
not telling us another way. is this other experiment gone bad that the government is covering up again

If you seriously thing the CDC just did this for giggles and that it’s a waste of your $ you need to go back to school. This is
to hook ppl for EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS. Be it any type!

I have been longing for this day for decades!!!!! If the world were to be ending, then I pray we go out via Zombie
Apoalypse!

Thanks for catching that Leon!

That is very cool, thank you CDC.

Nice article. Its realy good info for me. Thanks a lot!

I have learned something from reading your article today. I appreciate your presentation and knowledge on this subject.
This has given me reason to consider the points you made here and I will be back.

zombies are awsome on games lkie call of duty but do thay exist yes thhay do i saw one in a graveard

I could not think you are more right…

A USAF Major told me of a USMC training ‘town’ where the ‘Walking Dead’ scenario is practiced for real. This ‘Major’ did
the course, it’s real. So why is the Corps taking this scenario real enough to spend money on such a mock set up??!! Just
read that scientist in the Netherlands have modified the Bird Flu……can we say STUPID!! In the event of such an outbreak
causing a Walking Dead situation, large areas had better be just cordoned off with large, high fences. The USN had better
deploy to sea ASAP and stay away from land, far away until air recon can verify a safe return destination.

Its so cool…. very cool…

Thank you for that..

I suggest adding a facebook like button for the blog!

I CANT WATE FOR THIS TO HAPPEN OMFG ITS GONNA BE GREAT!!!!!!!!!

those pictures are scary….i hope that this never happens….blah blahblahblahblahblah

Hello there. My visitors have been asking about this, do you mind if I re-print this on my blog? I will of course give full
credit to this site, and I will link to you if you like. Thanks.

i just wanted to type something.

when will it happen

if you are being chased by a zombie jump in a river they cannot swim

I think this is a great use of humor to get a serious point across. Great job guys. As an ex military guy, I always have some
spare food and water in my house and a “bug out” bag ready to go. Everyone should have one. Whether its a flu
outbreak, small pox, or earth quake…that few days of food and water could make the difference. Great job CDC….
and by the way…. the zombies are coming…oh yes they are….just not yet 🙂
Also CDC….you may want to up your fuel supplies for your generators…we all saw what happened to your facility in the
Walking Dead hahahahahaha

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the net. I actually can suggest blogs.cdc.gov !

For all of you who did not read the entire article, it was not about a scenario with a zombie apocalypse, it was to get
people to do something to prepare for a likely disaster that may face them. Also, if there really were a zombie
apocalypse plan it would include a blunt object and some ranged weapons.

mmmm brains!

I think you guys should give a more realistic perspective on this, such as what would cause such a disease to spread? I
think you should put up more valid information to back up what you have to say.

Help Zombies are attaken AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAh

The most realistic depiction of a zombie apocalypse would be a scenario where a subject is infected with a rabies like
pathogen, only much more fast acting and with a reduced mental function which makes the subject much more violent.
The subject would also need a diminished capacity for pain and complete loss of higher brain function, or else the
subject would not bite and attack others and the pathogen would not spread.
In this scenario depending on where you lived and where the infection originated would determine your survival
strategy. The safest place to be in a zombie infestation is obviously an area with no zombies and where zombies would
have trouble to get to. The place that makes the most sense to me would be an island big enough to sustain a family or
small civilization. For instance if the zombie plague originated in the U.S. I would probably want to move to Australia, or
at least that would be my first choice. However depending on how fast the infection spread they might shut down air
travel, in which case I would try to find somewhere closer. Since I live in Canada, probably Vancouver Island.
Another strategy would be to go far enough north that zombies could not survive the year round cold. This would also
work for the undead type zombie as they would freeze solid in the arctic and be unable to move. Also a bleeding half
dead human wandering through the arctic would likely either fall into a crevasse or be eaten by polar bears….However
that does leave the possibility of zombie polar bears which I don’t even want to think about.

Probably your greatest article on the net..

I can see everyone needing living essentials…but food, water, and medical supplies practically grow on tree’s in most
areas. I would be worrying about self-defense.

I do not mean to put the CDC’s help down, for their hearts are in the right place,
However, they should definitely put personal safety into the equation!
🙂
This is what will happen in 2012…

Here is a hilarious video displaying some zombie survival techniques and study of zombies in their habitat. Most people
love the music as well! what a bonus!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UBwoTFzXhE&feature=channel_video_title

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WOW. I love this article. I don’t think zombies wil come any time soon if they do become real, but natural disasters
always happen.
if a zombie outbreak were to happen, you guys at CDC will be suspect. lol no one is as stupid as you think they are. IF a
natural outbreak were to occur, they would not last more than a week. The heat, the cold, all the elements will do FAR
more harm than good. zombies lose muscle control due to a body that is no longer functioning to preserve itself. Now it
would be more about rage zombies than regular zombies. Then we will definitely know that it was a manufactured
plague

This is clever way to get people thinking about preparing for emergencies. I particularly liked the tricky little Zombie
Apocalypse heading as an opportunity to grab the reader’s attention, threw in some pictures of zombie looking creatures
to show a visual and capitalized on the article to take advantage of emergency preparedness tips for all emergencies.
Since preparing for hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, fires etc. is virtually the same why not put a creative spin on the
issue of making sure citizens are prepared for Zombies? I for one have now included an aluminum baseball bat to my
emergency supply kit. Nice work!

“There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for”
how amazing is it !1!1!

if it happens then come to grand bay middle school we provide safety and shellter

i see this a possibly the start of the zombie apocalypse, why give out i guide now, i belive that there preparing us for the
near futre, is there somthing the govermant isn’t telling us?

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i don’t think many ppl realize this but the cdc isn’t actually taking zombies seriously, it’s just there joking way of grabbing
our attention so they prepare us for a natural disaster. I don’t care what anyone says, a zombie apocolypse and a n
atural disaster are two completely different scenarios and while they do require some of the same goods, like food and
such, you won’t need a .22 during a natural disaster. And i have’t read all the somments but whoever said an aluminum
bat is good for killing zombies is wrong, it’s bend quickly. duh.

ok so i just have one comment……TOTTALLY FREAKING WICKED DUDE!

ok well i have more than just one comment, hehe.
so what you should have on your supply list is a Zombie Bashing Stick. me and my friends are always talking about what
it would me like if/when the zombie apocalypse happens.
once i read this i emediately showed it to my friends and we all agreed on how this post is going to help us when it does
happen.
all of those movies like RESIDENT EVIL are all based on one fact: zombies are going to happen sooner or later.
and the cause is always the same: some jacked up scientist has tried to find a cure for cancer.
well guys, they have almost construcked a cure that has finally eliminated the deathly disease.
during november the medicine that was injected into 2,000 recipiants of cancer cured close to 1,000 of them.
the only side affect was that 50% of their bone tissue had to be taken in order to cure them.
now in “I am legend”, what year did they cure cancer? and what year did all the cured turn into mindless flesh eating
zombies?
thats right, 2012.
be prepared. the days of the zombie apocalypse are among us.
so those of you who dis the CDC’s post and on how you are wasting your tax money on this post, get a grip and actually
pay attention to the
signs around you.
for these days could be your last ones, and before you knoe it, you culd be the walking undead youselfs.

This post couldn’t be more factual.

Very good visual appeal on this internet site, I’d rate it 10.

this was created on the basses of the one percent rule.

that rule states that if there is if an event has even a one percent chance of occurring then there must be a plan for its to
deal with it.

this does means the government takes zombies as a real treat.

sorry there is an error in the above. there must be a plan for the public to deal with it.

POSSIBLE ZOMBIE CAUSAL AGENTS:

(1) Alien (demonic or underground species [elmo kin]) possession / poisoning / viral…

(2) PLANET-X related EMF discharges w/ pole-shift considerations. ( aluminum foil / tin-hat origin )

(3) HAARP ?

Thanks for creating a health related article. You are included some photos it’s so nice.
Thanks
Zonalton Ford

zombies arre cool, NOT!!!!

That is really awesome!!!!

I love horror movies. One of my most favorite movies is about Zombie. Thank you for this great writing about how to
prepare for a real emergency for Zombie apocalypse.

The ONLY reason I came here was because I am watching QUARANTINE … scary movie about zombie outbreak sorta and
they mention the CDC so i googled it and came here

Further up in the comments, there was mention of a need for information on medications and what happens when
taken after they expire. I know that a study was done by the DOD on this, as they had/have a large stockpile of
medication. Where would the public be able to find this type of information, as far as what drugs just lose their potency
and which become dangerous. Also information on the best way to store medications for long term storage would be
great information. I am thrilled to see that some government agencies view being prepared for emergencies is a good
thing… Thanks for the inovative way to get this message out

Thanks for this. I love the fact that something so dry and seemingly boring can be turned into something that motivates
me to start preparing. Tax dollars well spent!

Lol… I really hope people aren’t being serious about a zombie issue… I mean, I can imagine a disease of some type
making people go crazy or something, but moving and possibly running without any blood flowing through the body and
missing vital organs? I’d doubt it…

This article doesn’t mean the CDC takes the zombie thing seriously. The people saying “OMG waste of money-blah blah
blah” need to read and pay attention a bit also… This is just saying to be prepared. Think about it… If you were to
prepare for a zombie outbreak, you’d be ready for nearly everything right? Right…

As far as I knew, the CDC is suppose to spread awareness of natural disasters and so on and keep people prepared, and
by posting this article they’ve brought quite a few people here that otherwise wouldn’t be, and otherwise wouldn’t be
thinking about being prepared. They’ve done their job well with this, and it’s something I feel I can relate with rather than
a bunch of monotone formal banter I’d fall asleep reading about. 😀
Since i don’t exactly see an edit button, I feel like ranting a bit more on here about it… A friend of mine showed me this
acting all serious about it. Until I made him look it over again and notice the part

“You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two
about how to prepare for a ‘real’ emergency.”

Having said “Real” would imply the statements before were to something “Not real”. Meaning, no… Zombies are not
taken seriously in this article. Sure maybe something that makes people crazy, some other more realistic form of
“zombies”. But true corpses… Nah, sorry Johnny lol.

That was a really great article..

awesome and funny zonbie:)

Thank god some bloggers can write. Thanks for this blog post.

Thank god some bloggers can write. Thank you for this read.

This blog is a really great way to get people to think ahead. Remember to get a small chainsaw for sawing limbs in the
middle of the road if you take backroads after hurricanes. Leave some gas in it for the zombies!!!

Lighten up people. It can’t have taken more than $15000 at most to make this comic and blog possible. If it’s making
people think about emergency preparedness then it’s money well spent. It’s certainly better than having more
unprepared people huddling around shelters begging and fighting for food like….zombies….

I have my “GO BAG” all set up….plenty of engergy bars, water and of course…AMMO for the Zombies!

I don’t disagree with this writing!

This has be a topic of extensive debate around my house. I have a n 8th grade son and a 10th grade son. of course my
wife doesn’t get it at all but it a great way to cover the issue of dealing with adversity and challenges.
We would like to add that the preferred mode of transport, a Hummer H2.
a crank up radio. lots of bottled water and beef-a -ronie will get you through the worst of it.
The key is find help, set up a team and work together. This is not the time to go it alone. Groups fight zombies better
than lone warriors.

For those of you crying that this post is a waste of money, it was definitely a clever way of informing people of
emergency preparedness. Do notice the kit mentioned covers many sorts of natural disasters. Plus its a small simple
blog post, and the gentleman that wrote it has done a lot of work to help many people. Also let me say, being prepared
for the most far fetched scenarios is not a bad policy.

The CDC has long been my favorite governmental agency, but this just makes them even cooler; Next, how about a
discussion of the movie Contagion?

Today my friends and I were talking about this and made are plan but not fully no dought we will bring are families with
us. My friend Justin is the leader because he knows how to work well twith all of us joen is the guy who has the heavy
artilary Richard are medic who knows first aid and can fix our car and drive ect: gervy guns man and I the scout long
distance sniper and the guy who knows were to go and how to do it right. But seriously we would stick by this and try to
survive if we were trapped one of us would run if the others couldn’t and let them die or help but if they couldn’t they
would run and once we turn kill us then they would try to go on I would hope if I turned someone would put me down
right there and then ….

I bought some extra cheerios just in case. Who knows, maybe zombies like cheerios.
Jokin aside, this has indeed made me think twice about being prepared, especially since I live in an earthquake zone.

Yes me and my family are prepared we got a nuke cellar with everything in It we got food to last us a year we got water
to last us two years we got weapons like guns ,ammo,knives,and blunt weapons.

To all of you, sitting in your shelters, on cans of food, water bottles and batteries:

Relax, enjoy Christmas time and have a happy New Year 2012!

Same goes to the Zombies…

OMG ppl :’D This is one of the most entertaining public safety discussion’s I have ever seen. Makes me not feel paranoid
about having a emergency disaster locker in my house. Thank you CDC and thanks to all the commenters. Good read

Oh and buy the way Brian McGuiness I think the best transportation if the streets are filled with zombie is a Steam roller
with and enclosed cab of course. Who cares how fast they are you can clear the streets till the cows come home LoL

wow that was great and now thanks to that we put our own kit together but my three year old son does not under stand
why we can not put icecream in our kit.

It is very wise to be cautious and ready at all times. As a first aider, one family should have complete first aid kit and
tools. Even if it is not about zombies or perhaps certain calamity being ready is the greatest defense.
This is a serious matter. While the legend of zombies originated in some plantation somewhere in the west indies, I have
found that a breakout of rabies is exactly what could cause the zombie apocalypse.

hey zombies are not real no way undead could come to life that is profed by sceintist dead people cant just come alive
and start eating brains movie about zombies are fake they use fake blood and the zombies dont eat brains its all fake

This. Is. So. Cool!

Our zombie troops are now moving into the United States. The U.S. army met us at the border but we started launching
Snickers at them and we snuck past. Ha! Ha! Ha! Las Vegas here I come!

Getting into holiday spirit I realised we have to correct our attitude toward Zombies.
They are our fallen brothers and sisters. Yes, they misbehave, but maybe because they are beeing misled.
But, I believe, if we only show our good hearts and open ourselves to them, treat them with respect, bestow on them
warm feelings, they sure will change their wicked ways. So, let’s welcome them to our houses, let’s stop this silly
separation caused by irrational fear, let’s share with them whatever we have. Because this is good. And right.

I foresee the better future, where people and Zombies live together in peace and brotherly love!

” I see dumb people. And they don’t even know they are dumb”. Seriously, this is a pretty amusing way to get people to
plan for an unexpected event. Nice concept, CDC. Thanks for the opportunity to learn good tips via humor.

cool story.

In response to people who think the list from CDC and myself is “excessive” or “unneeded” in the case of a natural
disaster not involving “infected” humans/animals, don’t you think the evil people in this country will be looking to lie,
steal, and kill to survive at will?
ALSO, I think the CDC should add Nuclear Fallout to the list of “disasters” and should add more items such as gasmasks
to the list.
Here’s some more, I forgot a major few

GAS MASKS

KEVLAR or any type of longsleeve, panted, body armor

HELMETS… any kind would be effective, military helmets, construction, bicycle, and/or motorcycle helmets would be
effective.

But of course, when considering my lists you must consider that it will be difficult to carry so many of these items. So it
would be wise to either set up an environment with limited vulnarability either your home or elsewhere and store the
items there. OR getting THE LEAST HEAVY AND/OR BULKY items.

Having a Bunker or an underground area and GAS MASK will be EXTREMELY important and crucial to survival in case of
NUCLEAR FALLOUT

no way!!!!!!!!!

OK. Jerzy, I really think inviting zombies into our homes is a REALLY bad idea. I don’t think it is a separation. Because
zombies aren’t real. I DO love the idea that zombies were used as an example in the making of this blog. I love it. Thanks,
CDC!

I believe it will happen. How do i make other people believe

I am very glad to visit this type of knowledge increasing post. Thanks for this great job.

It is impossible but there is a little chance of rabies

None of us would know what zombies were if the walking dead came out zombies are not real all you geeks just face it it
is not going to happen

Comment 701 is just plain dumb whoever said that does not know about zombies

You’re right, Autumn.

Too much goodness has got to me. Too much goodness is not good.
Cool story. Seriously, this is a pretty amusing way to get people to plan for an unexpected event. Nice concept…

seriously if this did happen i highly doubt that the “CDC would provide technical assistance to cities, states, or
international partners dealing with a zombie infestation”. The only thing i could see happening during this would be
mass chaos, and people storming there local food stores such as walmart, Big K, dollar general, and other stores that
have stuff people could loot, but thats my opinion.

all my friends say zombies are not real but they wont be laughing at me for being a believer during the apocalypse i will
be prepared and they will lose

Remember rules of zombieland.But i watch alot of zombie movies. And shut up!!(if you dont want to get eaten)

im ready i live with my mom And Sister im 13 and a big hunter. i have water medical supplies etc.

This is one very clever article making the vast majority of people prepare for the so called Zombie Apocolypse while
really preparing them for any situation. Well done to the Author!!!

Its always amusing to read these things…. First, this isnt a waste of tax dollars…. the CDC has taken real info and put it
into an arcticle that anyone will read. Secondly look at some of the science the mid European nations are working with….
Re-animation of dead tissue and cells are something they (and im sure we) have been working with. Far fetched…. yes,
impossable….. no.

this is so awsome make you aware that when you’re planning for the zombie attack it can also be for other disasters.
though when you look at the other comments why are some of you think that this page actually cost anything for one
and two its a popular way to get people in today’s socity to actually think of real emergency whether or not it comes in
the form of zombies. people need to actually look between the lines before jumping down CDC back this is a clever and
inventive idea to get people like me to be aware of emergencys aren’t just preparing for zombies it covers everything 🙂
thank you CDC you guys are amazingly clever makes me have hope for government yet.

LMAO…..I really cannot believe that some of you really think we are talking about Zombies here….WOW…that’s all I can
say! Take it for what it is, just a good article about emergency preparedness.

I might be seventeen but I’m prepared for it. My mom always asks me why do I want swords and crossbows and
obsessed with guns. I just told her why she doesn’t think it will happen but me and a few buddy’s believe it will. We want
to join the CDC task force email me to talk more about it. dbro2012@aol.com

all the people who think the zombies are nonsence will be the first to go! nice to know us prepared ones will live longer
because while the nonbelievers are being feasted on the rest of us will be high-tailing it to safety and all ill say to those
people who thought this whole thing was crap is TOLD YA SUCKAS!!!! hahaha

Don’t you wish the world were this interested in AIDS or child abuse?
Why are there no shirts for fat dudes? we need sizes 3 and 4x. I know the first rule in survival is cardio but if we gone die
we can atleast looks good doing it with our size 4x cdc shirt!! E me if I can get one in this size….i’ll pay extra.

Interesting… a smart way to spread the word of making a disaster preparedness kit using a pop-culture theme.

Well played CDC! Also for some people who might have not evaluated this article clearly it uses a Zombie Apocalypse as a
theme to get people thinking of making a disaster kit whether for a Zombie Apocalypse or a Natural Disaster, and I highly
doubt this article was made “wasting” taxpayers money, don’t you see? what better way to (what I said earlier at the top
of my post). Regardless of what the theme is the message is clear (or so it should be) to be prepared for any type of
emergency situation (i.e. fire, natural disasters, town/city evacuation, etc.) that may strike at any moment.

Personally anyone at the CDC could have made this article for fun while still having a purpose, to send a message,
besides I doubt this article took much effort to publish or any money in that case. Anyone, if they have the ability to, can
post an article in their website having done some research on what they are talking about. I myself made a 6 page
research paper on how Bank Bailouts may be good strategy to stabilize an economy artificially in about 5 hrs. Though
anyone with basic knowledge about Zombies can create an article encouraging people to be prepared for an emergency
of any type using a Zombies Apocalypse as a theme.

Notice that there are some clues that the CDC understands that a Zombie Apocalypse is very unlikely-“and hey, maybe
you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency.” “Well, we’re here to answer that question for
you, and hopefully share a few tips about preparing for real emergencies too!” “This includes where you would go and
who you would call if zombies started appearing outside your door step. You can also implement this plan if there is a
flood, earthquake, or other emergency.”(CDC)-on my post it may not appear in italics
but if you were to review the article you will see that the word “real” is in italics stating once again, that a Zombie
Apocalypse is very unlikely. About the third quote, the author uses the situation in which how people should react or do
in a Zombie invasion around your house or community because those same strategies can be applied to more common
disasters or emergencies. For example: you would call a neighbor or a friend if Zombies were surrounding your house
and you are trapped inside, right? This type of action can be applied to you say if you were trapped in a building that was
on fire or that had collapsed from an earthquake.

So, if I may say, the CDC has created an article relating to events during a Zombie Apocalypse to real life emergencies to
send a message to the public (in this case, believers and the younger population or just about anyone who would rather
be prepared anyway) to be prepared!

Where can I find Zombie Proof Ammo cans? I want to store some items and keep them safe for Zombies. I may use it to
keep my GO KIT.

Love the blog

The opening line is clearly implying that this is a matter of “when” not a hypothetical “if”. Look: “You may laugh now, but
….” when it happens not if. CDC the disease control guys are saying when not if..isn’t that kinda scary guys?

I’m going to laugh so hard when all the people who say this is a waste of tax money are all infected by this

what if they figured out a way to make a stronger sting of Toxoplasmosa gondii with makes rats zombies. i mean look
they use rats to test or meds on already and so there got to be some link that could make it happen. read 5 reasons why
it could happen.

did u know the apocalpse is going to happen December 32, 2012?

This is some very useful information indeed. There is no reason as to why a zombie apocalypse could never happen.
With all these new diseases (I’m sure there are plenty more out in the world that are yet to be discovered), ones such as
toxoplasmosis and lab experiments, I’m sure there’s a possibility some type of virus could spread causing a zombie, if
not a zombie-like, apocalypse of some sort.

i dont have to worry about any cardio im a boxer and a big zombie fan so i keep myself fit even though i understand that
the real reason they did this for any emergancy im still making some kind of kit just in case

P.S that kit seems a bit heavy and i think youd be better off travelling light wouldnt you? but keep essentials + dont go to
a refugee camp during an apocalypse thatts the most stupid thing you could do but do go if natural disaster of course
i enjoyed the article

Has anyone made the correlation between what “zombies” act like, to what starving people will be like after a couple
weeks without food?
Stock up and prepare now, before the hoards of so-called “zombies” come out of the cities.

i highly doubt there is a due date on when the zombie apocalypse will occor but one thing i know its that you will need
better help than just the information that the CDC has provided. you will need survival strategies like simpily how to start
a fire or how to make a shelter. if you want to really know how to survive a zombie apocalypse read the book zombie
survival guide.

Year i’am tryin my best 2 be ready.

wow……a government website says to prepair for zombies!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!! I knew it would happen I just need to finish our plan
C.!!!!!!!!!!

David said that the CDC didn’t have a plan against zombies an the i showed him this and he was like “Wow dylan you
were right and I (david) was wronge just like wen you said if a zombie bit u u cant just cut ofthe afflicted area and i
disagreed with you even thou u were right.”

I am always investigating online for tips that can benefit me. Thanks blogs.cdc.gov

You completed some good points on blogs.cdc.gov . I did a search on the theme and found the majority of persons will
have the same opinion with your blog.
do you guys really think the zombie apocalypse is going to happen and i thank you for getting us prepared i have a lot of
questions that need answering and one of them is….is there going to be a cure cause if not get to cracken cause i dont
want this to happen to my family but if there is look up a girl named Priscilla Marie Heflin shes from edmond oklahoma
and i want her to be with me when you guys evacuate the country lol but anyway thanks for the heads up

Zombies arn’t Real

If you’re boy or even a tom-b.,

Aim you 12-gager right at the Zombie.
But before carelessly you pull carbine’s trigger,
Think! Without them our world will be meager…

They do have their special deadly charm;

So what that they may miss a leg or an arm,
Or some flesh here or perhaps there…
It’s what’s inside, as far as I care.

Let’s play the music, small band or big,

I’m into romantic Zombie cheek to cheek!
Let’ start our madness, let’s start dans macabre!
Here I am, take my hand ma’am cadav’r!

Around in circles, we’ll conquer the floor!

Spewing everywhere your mortal odour!

At last music stops… And we’ll go to lie down,

You’ll drop your filthy and moldy brown gown,
You’ll sink your teeth into my warm wanting flesh and
Consuming my body, you’ll put romance to end.

Zombie Apocalypse is to an old people

I think zombies may be a little out there on the horizon, but a completely engineered level 4 containment type outbreak
would be more plausible into the the forseeable future. If an experiment went wrong and somehow the containgent got
airbourne and started infecting humans, we would have some serious issues. Any kind of level 4 episode should not be
even considered, because it would cause so much widespread controversy. I have a saying that should be followed by
everyone, “Hope For The Best, Prepare For Worst”.

I am pretty sure I saw a group of zombies – they are running around Florida pretending to be Presidential candidates!

Should the more affluent help the less affluent? Do you believe in what Peter Singer does..that we should spend that
$500 on charitable causes instead of a new Apple Iphone? Or would a better solution…be something like microlending?
What is your position on the moral responsibility of each of us to end world poverty?.

Been reading this blog for awhile but i have been lazy to drop a comment and say thanks. That ends these days: Thanks
mate!

Ha! This is fantastic. We implemented a zombie insurance company in 2009 and we all got a kick out of this article.

http://www.MyZombieInsurance.com
Zombies don’t care. We do.

Wow this is serious isn’t it?

This is so awsome….i’ve been preaching preparedness for nearly 30 years and i’m also a zombie movie fan. It’s good to
know that people smarter than me have seen the merit of preparing for the worst possible disaster scenario that i can
think of, other than utter world destruction, zombies and putting it to practical use. I mean think about it….if you prepare
for the worst then when something does happen and it’s not zombies….then it prolly won’t seem so bad

AWWWWWWW YEAAAAAAAAA!!! I so expected the CDC to have something like this on their sight. LOL @(^_^)@
i have a plan tht will work well in my opinion….. and CDC didnt do anything. i just want to know what other people are
doing.

its gonna happen sooner or later. now there finally taking it seriously!

well i am making a zombie survival guide for what to do in this type of emergency. ther are 9 categories…
rules
where/how you should live
types of clothes
who should be in your group
where you should and shouldn’t be
did you spot a zombie?
weapons?
type of car and what you should do in any building
And Finally…
your diet
so that is all i have to show you for now… bye! 😀
OMG! If this ever happens I will totally do that. And here I am just hopping I turn in to Alice like in the Resident Evil
movies.

I already discussed this with friends of mine,

we’re going to hide out in our local supply store, where the food and clothes and medical advice is,
at the same time, we’re going to make some sort of tunnel leading to the garden supply store across the road, “there’s
drills, saws, chainsaws!” So, there’s our weapons :>

Another thing, if it was a deadly virus, the infection would only last a few days before you’ll be completely dead anyway,
the infection would’ve killed you.

so, OVERALL.
go to a local store, and camp out there, build barriers and just wait until they’re all dead.

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i will survive a zombie apocalypse.

if the zombies are real then kill me now because im terifide this is not a joke put me out of my misery!

I never saw who won the video contest. Did something go terribly wrong?

another good place to stay is a place with one door because it is easier to protect.

the CDC isnt saying zombies are real, theyre using the title to attract sci-fi lovers to stop watching the walking dead and
prepare for natural disasters

oh my god this is so cool all my friends think there is no such thing as zombies but i know there out there or coming
some day i will make that kit very soon

Here is a thought to the non-believers. They found a fungus that turns ants into zombies, so people turning into zombies
could be possible. If and when it happens it could be man-made, or even something nature cooked up. Just think about
it…

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What people don’t seem to understand is the CDC’s job is to be prepared and help others prepare for the worst. It’s not
wasting money, people are entertained by Zombies and most people are interested. This is a great way to spread the
word about being prepared, as stated in the article, if you are prepared for a zombie apocalypse then you are prepared
for anything. This is no different then what teachers do in classes, they find an interest point and make it apply to the
lesson. I think this is a great way to get people to prepare, and be ready for anything. Thank you for sharing this
information, I hope it gets through to people. And for everyone who thinks they are going to hide out in a store, good
luck keeping it secure because you will have to fight more people then zombies. Everyone has the same ideas, those
ideas will get you killed. Think outside the box, and think every detail through.

i guess some of these people really are not getting the complete point of all this zombie talk. all it is for is to attract the
attention of different groups of people to teach them how to be prepared for anything that could happen on a local or a
global level so why dont some of you people lighten up on the freakin sny comment you have no clue what your talking
about. if youve read anything about the preparedness for disaster an have a half of a brain you would relize that this is a
good artical to read. and for all of those that get it an understand this artical good for youll be the ones too survive

Great idea CDC! Good for you!

Zombies? Is that what we are calling the looters and have nots? How compassionate that we must refer to the realities of
an emergency as an attack from zombies. We have zombies for a presidential administration, be prepared to defend
yourself from the current zombies in our presence, the folks with their hands out.

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I agree with the CDC using zombies or a so called “zombie apocalypse” to attract the attention of the otherwise uncaring
people who don’t pay attention to what can actually happen and then when it does they are crying to others and begging
for handouts because they weren’t smart enough to actually think for a change and always be prepared. This stuff isn’t
rocket science. Things happen all the time and it’s these idiots that are all happy and saying i knew a zombie apocalypse
was coming that are going to be the ones with no family, no home, no resources and left to die on the street because the
rest of us are smarter. If you actually believe that this is really about zombies then you really should look in the mirror
and perform a reality check and get your priorities in order.

I used o be scared but now I am semi ready because all of the beef jerky and venison will be free. I am still scared but I
am pretty thrilled for a 12 year old.

This is awesome. lol I always liked the conecpt of zombies, though I think I won’t survive if this ever happens. Too many
people where I live.

The zombie apocalypse may or may not be real, however the site does draw attention to general emergency
preparedness by using the zombie as one such emergency. Though zombies may not be real, there are real emergencies
that should be taken into consideration by all citizens and making this site is a good way to put some “fun” into a serious
scenario. I got my kit packed….

never seen a zombie,but have met many braindead folks.

does that count?

I always wondered, where do I go in a Zombie Apocalypse?! I mean, its not like I don’t have a good Idea, and I know
where to avoid, but where do you go? Let’s say you have a safehouse(just the place your at, maybe a few people), and
there are zombies outside, but your safe and have a good amount of supplies. Don’t you always have a plan to go to a
final safe zone, like zombie-free. In other words. Ok, just because am safe now, in this place, doesn’t mean I wanna be
here for ever, like where can I move on to as my ultimate goal, a safer place. For one, I live in South Florida, so I’ll tell you,
you dead if you don’t have a boat. Ok, there’s Miami, and Ft. Lauterdale, but what about the majority of people living in
suburbs a few miles farther inland. For thoughts of you who don’t understand, go to google maps, and look at the
satellite image of the east coast of south Florida and that huge mesh of city after city, is what am talking about. Oh, and I
live in Coral Springs (if you don’t know where it is, type it in on google maps), so am surrounded to the east and south by
suburbs, and after that, cities. To the west, Big Cypress National park, basically the Everglades, litteray on the western
city limits. North, north’s a smaller town, called park land and after that, guess what more suburbs and big cypress! Wow,
I feel surrounded, so this is why I ask, were do I go? There’s two highways out of south Florida, I-95 on the east coast(not
an option) and one called the Tami-ami trail, which goes from Miami to western south Florida, or in otherwords, Another
city! I really hope I get good suggestions, and please don’t say “go to cuba…”. Great an Island full of refugees(soon to be
zombies) from Florida.

To Christian,

Take a glider boat and disappear into Everglades. But not before you let Zombies sense where you’re retreating. They’ll
go after you and, hopefully, will end up as gators’ fodder.
I think it’s exellent plan.

I agree with some of the lower comments but you should always carry a flash light. Also you shouldent camp in small
places because you might be cornered. Always carry a small thing of value and extra money incase of a run-in with
somemore “surviors” or to bribe with.Avoid these places: Hosbitals, malls, super markets and Contact with other people.
Good Blog though!

If there truly is going to b a zombie apocalypse, everyone will panic. Its best to avoid crowded areas and be ready to kill,
mentality is a huge part of survival. Be ready at home, in the car and on the go, always have a plan a, b, and c. I’m only 16
and i’m already prepared for any disaster to hit California, after all any disaster kit can also be used for a zombie
apocalypse kit. Also DONT FORGET TO WATCH EACH OTHERS BACKS, many times someone will mess up on any
important job, even in modern warfare people still mess up. Ba alert at all times, trade off keeping watch at night and
help each other out. Setting up a small trustworthy community of people who are local to your area is also a good idea,
but make sure they are trustworthy and share similar goals and interests as you. Tell the wrong person what you have
prepared could make you a target for a raid.

machetes are not a bod idea. they are light and very affordable,plus no ammo needed.

All this coming from the same clowns that were unable to prevent the swine flu from spreading the way it did, the delays
in the vaccine etc.
If this ever happened the world would be doomed!!
The CDC is a joke.

You cant be serious with this zombie crap

ok so like if there really is going to be a zombie apocalypse which i don’t belive is going to happen but just in case i’ll be
ready for them. Most of these dumb people out there think that if zombies suddenly appear that they should go protect
their loved ones. well thats mistake #1. And also even if ya’ll say that theres going to be a zombie apocalypse that doesnt
mean that theres gonna be one. Try to understand that ther will NEVER be a zombie apocalypse.

This was not a waist of tax dollars they are trying to find a fun way to get prepared for a real emergency.

When I read this article…makes me think of zombies = cannabals. Crisis sets in and people go hungry and starve..they
become cannabals to survive. Something to think about..this Zombie Apocalypse!!!

Watch out, people!

There is a Zombie plant inside CDC! They are the ones doing so called “moderation”. You know what that mean, do you?
They are comiiing…

@ Aislinn

Well, zombies doesn’t necessarily mean the undead coming out of their grave to eat your brains. There is A LOT of
biological warfare going on behind closed doors. What leaks out to the public is just a glimpse of whats really going on.
And besides this biological warfare, flu’s and infections are being messed with everyday. Recently the bird flu. There was
an article about that being contaminated with something and turning into a deadly virus. They are one deadly virus away
from creating that virus that will turn humans into something like zombies. So if some people do not believe that the
“Zombie” apocalypse is going to happen, lets start calling it a virus outbreak. Cuz that’s exactly what it will be, WHEN it
happens.

First of all, I would like to thank the CDC for acknowledging that a Zombie Apocalypse is a definite possibility and needs
to be treated as a potential threat. Although a zombie outbreak is highly unlikely, it’s still possible. ANYONE who thinks
that a lethal super virus is impossible is a complete moron. It IS 100% possible and everyone should be prepared for
such an event. With that being said, thank you CDC for getting people involved and prepared for a pandemic in a fun and
entertaining way. CDC, you get an A+. 😀
I REALLY BELIEVE BUT HOW MANY PEOPLE WUD BELIEVE IT ENOUGH

zombies noooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

im fat and the zombie wont eat me. I’ll eat the zombies!!!!

How can you make a cure for something that not real or happen yet? What are they hiding……
Well done, CDC. I’m a University Emergency Preparedness Officer, and the Zombie Task Force will be a great way to “sell”
Emergency Preparedness on campus… BZ!

ask dr.gener from the walking dead

Thanks CDC… now what equipment would i need if probed my aliens?

bring on the zombies

i seen a zombie please be aware i dont see any more if you see them then call at 4804959281 ill tell you a safe place LAY
LOW dont cry turn off lights and cover windows

I LOVE ZOMBIES!!!!!!! eat them for breakfest, lunch and even dinner. DEAD ASS!!!!!

Awesome! Glad CDC acknowledged this. I know most people think zombies are a joke, but experimentation with viruses
DOES happen. You never know, you’re little town could be the next Raccoon City and we could all be living the real
“Walking Dead.” The world is becoming more advanced; anything can happen…

Another idea is to go somewhere icy 24/7; the low temperatures will deteriorate/freeze the bodies making them slower
and less able to get around.

I’m all about “doomsday prepping,” but this is a joke. Our Gov’t has nothing better to spend our tax dollars on?

Absolutely well done. You made emergency awareness fun. I never really focused on being prepared for the unexpected
and now I am kicking myself for not doing it sooner.
Now let me count the number of people who complained that you are “wasting funds” because they don’t have a clue
what your true intentions were.

ene my ne mo catch a zombie by the toe if he bites let him go e ne my ne mo. Just never ‘”hold back on a zombie attack”,.
if you love them dont decide not to kill him or her they’re already dead, and their in a better place so no matter what
dont hold back. you may cry you lost a loved one, but you survied 1 more second.

Zombies are not attractive. UNLESS YOU HAVE A THING FOR THE UNDEAD

I’ve been in a few disasters and war zones, so my patients depend on me when there is a weather alert. I’m the “go to
girl” for disaster preparedness. Everyone will be happy to know that we will have a zombie preparedness plan as well as
hurricane, blizzard and tornado.

Hoping for a hot chick if this could happen.

you never know whats going to happen anythings possible but in a lot of movies the cdc will close off the infected area
so no one could get out even if your not infected and they just destroyed the whole place killing everyone so the
infection wouldnt spread do you think they might do that if there was a zombie apocalypse?

make plan A.(don’t get bitten, kill the infected, don’t make friends with strangers) and B.(don’t break plan A)

this is a joking thing about the zombie apocalypse but it is getting sane people attention about the coming economic
collapse. prepare for a year to 2 years of nothing much on store shelves while the USA gets back on its feet, the
“zombies” u will first have to dispose of are the people that did not prepare , coming in large groups to steal the food and
water and armament you have stored up. after that the feds will be coming to do the same in the name of “government
protecion of the people”, but will do the same thing and cart you and yours to interrment camps ie: FEMA camps the
CDC is trying to get you to prepare for it. nuff said ?

Anyone who believes in zombies has nothing to worry about, you have no brains to begin with! Start spending more time
trying to solve REAL problems.

I think this blog post is inappropriate. It terrified a special needs 6th grader in my class who really has himself convinced
that a zombie apocalypse is going to happen today. I taught him in a study skills class on how to identify reliable sources
on the internet that .gov websites can generally be trusted.

I get the joke, and the purpose of the post. However, not everyone does. The fact that this is a joke should be more
explicit on a CDC website.
A zombie Apocalypse!!! WOW! Now I know why there are so much stupidity in the World! Mankind has been around for
centuries and never has there been Zombies but all of a sudden it is just going to happen! You people need to get a LIFE!
Instead of waiting for DEATH! So yeah let’s stock up enough food and water for a few days…. and then what oh Yeah we
can live minute to minute like the characters on “The Walking Dead” waiting for the moment we will be eaten by
Zombies. Who in their right mind would want to suvivve so they can spend the rest of their lives killing Zombies! That is
messed up!

zombies arnt real but this is good for hurricanes and tornados

good site!! You should start many more. I love all the info offered. I will stay tuned.

Face it, prepared or not in any situation idiots loose. I feel like I’m around zombies all day. Justin beber is googled more
than world events that matter, and people can’t even remember a phone number with out a cell phone, I’m sorry CDC,
your scare tactic to inform the great citizens of our Country, and act like you care probly won’t go far. Besides I could
think of a dozen things off the top of my head that would make your “prepaired kit” look like a gift bag from toys “r” us

but the main reason for zombie attack might be something els also right ?
well you cant know
but the only one thing that you should do in a zombie attack is that save you and only your self that is the best thing i
think

this is BS thier is no freakin zombies who are going to attack us. Shut the heck up about it pretty please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thier is no such thing as zombies who are going to attack us. You just wait and see. I hope you all look back at this and
laugh that you actually belived this.

First of all I would like to say awesome blog! I had a quick question that I’d like to ask if you do not mind. I was interested
to find out how you center yourself and clear your thoughts prior to writing. I have had a tough time clearing my
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This is awesome… lol… Thanks so much for this!! Made my day Karl

heeeeeey hoes

This is really funny…lol…

Zombies made significant inroads in the society already. Especially in places like Frisco, West Hollywood in Los Angeles,
New Orleans, San Antonio Texas, New York and other big cities. We, still unaffected, must increase our efforts to resist
them and stop their invasion.

Remember, there are more of us!

If a zombie apocalypse will occur, then why are kids still being taught knowledge that will be rendered obsolete?

add gasoline to the list helps alot

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In the event of a zombie apocalypse, MOVE TO THE COUNTRYSIDE! IT’S THE ONLY PLACE THAT WON’T GET NUKED!!!!!

Perhaps the presence of prions in the human genome will contaminate the zombie food supply! So, as Monte Python
sings, “Always look on the bright side of life” there may be an up-side to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease!

This is a Government Website. They’re not just doing this just to get other people prepared.

Do you understand how serious the CDC really is?

They know something we don’t.. com’n you and I both know the gov’t doesn’t tell us everything..

Africa is having some disease called the ‘nodding disease’ almost zombie like people wanting to bite and start fires. The
CDC and WHO is over their. They can’t find a cure or a cause of the problem.

Maybe this is they’re way of sending out the signal? and think about this.. you’re like

“ZOMBIE APOC??? CDC POSTED THIS?? IM GOING TO TELL MY FRIENDS!!@!@ :D:P:)”

^^^

That is exactly! what they want you to do.. spread the word.. its so out there that people will just want to spread the
word and get prepared.

CDC knows something

Gov’t knows something

be smart.
get prepared.

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about it? This may seem funny, but it’s a huge disappointment. Unfortunately, natural disasters may not seem ‘cool’, but
that doesn’t give anyone the right to exploit public media to attract an audience.

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Zombies are NOT REAL wake up people

hey…. zombies aren’t real. You are just a bunch a fag virgins who live with their parents! btw you guys will be locked in
you basement thinking theres a zombie attack, and you will end up having sex with your friend.

I am making a bunker at my house now with my friends Jon, Zack, Jocob, Brandon, Kyle, Austin, Autin again and etc.
Thank you CDC!!!….

hello, I´m from argentina and I don´t speak good english. I wonder if in the coming years or now be zombie pandemic
begins. Thank you for the information. It´s very interesting!

This was really helpful! I’m using some of the information for a story I’m writing, and it’s looking better now!

Evey Easter we encourage this Zombie uprising!! IT must be stopped!! LOL!

people, the only food material that would last until you decide its time to munch the rest of it away, is honey. honey
never goes bad or “expires” so it is the ideal food for an emergency kit. put a few bottles of that, a few mags, a battery
radio/flashlight, and water in there and your set for eternity, or til you die.
all you need is food/ water/ / a good car/ gas/ gas masks (oh and also a shelter. (: peferbly away from gravyards and
poupilated areas! oh and please zombies are transmitted by mad cow dieseace well get ready to fight! oh and if your
beat or you got bitting your dead just kill yourself ! now back to the comments/.

love it…this is great….. happy surviving

Why would the CDC be ready for a zombie apacalypse??? They know that something could happen and they are the ones
that are going to release the virus.

I dont see how people can laugh this off as a joke!!!!!

With all the weird disease’s in the world and the crazy people messing with reanamation of dogs
And the plain and scary murdering crazy people in the world. Not to forget all the countries that
Hate america, and our way of life. Yeah i dout we will have people yelling brains and eating our brains lol
But toxicins induced into the body that could make a person go absolute crazy or mad. Kind of like someone
On PCP Unresponsive Crazy Super Strong.
If you go by all zombie movies made Its always was cause by virus, chemical, radiation, and parasites
If the CDC says to look out just in case. I dont think they would joke about something on the National level
“”””people climb on top of your house and let the sniping begin””””””””

dose this mean you have created a zombie biological weapon

i think people should take precautions during the apocalypse like “what if they run, of what if they can’t see?” i think we
should try those out

Well it seems a lot of people think this is just unlikely….

Take a moment and think about everyone that did not think about mad cow disease, Black Plague, Bird Flu, should I go
on? WHY is this not probable and unlikely? It is better to be prepared than to not be. I myself have dreams about this.,
but yet I have had a few dreams about UFO’s. when we know they exist EVEN if we did not actually see one. You should
prepare for “what could happen” instead of This is UNLIKELY!!!

The CDC is doing this as a plausible “case” AND IMO would be better to be prepared for a case that is possible.
Do you go to the store and by food for a week or more? What about other house hold items? IF past Civilations and
history have taught us anything it would to be prepared for the “unlikely”

Do Zombies burp after eating human flesh?

I love this article. It grabs the attention of many people and educates them on the importance of emergency
preparedness. Fo those who think that the cdc wasted tax payers money, i disagree. This is a fun way to educated people
and the overall message is valid.

Let’s not forget diplomacy skills when dealing with zombies. Don’t leave this valuable tool out of your “emergency kit”.
Let’s try and reason and negotiate with the zombies. Convince them your brains do not contain the necessary social,
religious and political neuro-transmitters they crave. But if that fails and violence is your last option, be careful, because
if you shoot too many of the same “color” zombies, your fellow survivors will probably cast you out for being a racist! If
you don’t have a gun in your kit (The CDC deemed them un-necessary) then just throw cans of cream of mushroom
soup. Make sure you hit them in the head.

The Zombies do not bother me ! I am do not like the werewolves . You might be able to blend in with Zombies but you
will have to grow a lot of hair to blend in with the werewolves !

What the heck happened to the Apocalypse 101 video that came out last May or so? I can’t find it anywhere and was
wanting to show my kids.

@arlaw #79, and all the other morons posting about wasted taxpayer money, and the stupidity of this campaign. I work
for the government, and have seen taxpayer money wasted first hand, this is not one of those cases. Clearly you can not
appreciate the humor in this awareness campaign, or in everyday life I would guess. I would hate to know you, such a
boring life you must have if you can’t find the value and humor in something such as this. Many people under 30 have
never even thought about emergency preparedness, until The CDC posted this. I guarantee this has made thousands of
people think about preparing for real life emergency, and it has managed to do it in a very clever way. I am guessing the
CDC was not trying to reach people like you, but more the younger people, with a sense of humor, that maybe could use
a lesson on the topic. You guys criticizing are really just complaining to complain, is your life so boring that you track
down things that are not geared towards you, just so you can post a comment whining about it? (The answer is yes btw)
r u 4 real.when does it start.WOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!zombies here i come

When the apocalypse begins and the CDC “helpers” arrive, how will I tell the difference between the Zombies and the
“helpers”?

Honestly, I havet started preparing but researching movies I have noticed a very important pattern that I believe
everyone should know. Haven’t you noticed that while everyone I running the news has not stopped running in the
movies. This gives me a feeling that one of the safest places to go for a while would be a radio station. Plus learning
Martial arts Is quite handy and learning how to handle a gun. Paintball Is good practice.

Lol don’t believe it so I don’t think it’s going to happen lol.

I think a katana should be added to the list.

Ya’ll really believe something like this could happen. Wow!! Naive much?

“Make a list of local contacts like the police, fire department, and your local zombie response team.” That’s hilarious.
Good article though. It really opens the eye to the possibility of a zombie apocalypse and how to deal with it.

to all that are complaing about tax dollars being spent this is a way for CDC to come across a younger group to realize
theres other issues to be aware of as if you didnt notice in this blog they said hurricanes floods, etc… when a person
googles zombies this shows and it catches their eye they read and thats what they want you to do!!!!!!!!! its a great idea
because i read it

Wow are you serious, thew cdc posts this up. it has to be serious. Dont be surprise when DEC 21,2012 hit and and people
are outside eating people. SMH I think ima start preparing lol.

they’re just trying to prepare us for other emergencies

I think it’s great what the CDC has. Not only have they informed us on fictional doom, but actual doom as well. Although I
can’t completly deny the existence of Zombies because ANYTHING is possible. This is a great way to help everyone
prepare for any kind of natrual disaster.

But I’d like to enlighten you all on the “12-21-12” that the accient people who created the calender did not count leap
years.. etc.. I believe we’ve had like 500 and something leapyears.. therefore the world would have ended like 8 or 9
months ago. Google it and prove me right. If a zombie apoclypse happens it won’t be this year;) Wonderful days breh
<READ THAT;)

Yeah, its better to be prepared than sorry. Thanks for the tips just to be ready in case this will really happen. I feel
strongly about it and I take pleasure in learning about this topic.

This is a helpful links and everything good to be prepared for everything and anything…

when might this happen?

what if mad cow dies. started the zombie apocalpys?????

Finnaly! My friends think I’m crazy since I’m always prepared for the apocalypse! I never thought the CDC was prepared!!!
Thanks CDC! But in the movie Quarantine the building was put under quarantine and they said everything is gonna be
okay but they just left them there to die… But life isn’t a movie so CDC IS HERE TO HELP!

“A “zombie apocalypse?” Is this for real? My tax dollars funding CDC nonsense? What’s next, Preparedness 102 – Mall
Ninja’s Unite? Give me a break.”
LOL! Some of you are thick, this article is all about how to prepare for ANY disaster. Its quite a brilliant and effective
move if you think about it.

how is a zombie apocalypse funny it is a serious problem. And thank you CDC i am now perparing a kit and a plan if this
becomes a problem in the future

Cool Post, Man

@Avery: For the Video contest winners, please check out: http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/10/are-you-
prepared-video-contest-winners/

im a zombie
i know some guys who are a pretty frigin awsome when it comes to stuff like surviving a zombie apocalypse. some one
should invent a sign that you can put up on a building to let people now your ok. That way people can work together to
survive. i just have to say that the CDC better invent a cure if a zombie apocalpse really did happen

Lmao; this is pretty much a waste of time, Zombies are not real.. If they where, you’d see me hiding in a tree.
I often used to freak out when i first heard about this “Zombie Apocalypse” but get real, As much as your freaky, geeked
up, stupid, xbox playing minds want to believe it is true. It is sadly not.
Sorry to break the terrible news.
Have more sense you guys!!

im completely ready for this but i still dont think its going to happen in my life time

this is so fake there is no way in hell that there would be a zombie apacalips spend your time on somthing more usfull

@Nikole: Thanks!

@TK: Thanks!

i think tht turtles are good too. And i yhink tht eating raw zombie flesh

You no at first its not the zombies you need to worry about its the guys in uniform shooting anything moving NOT
wearing a uniform. 😀 But in my opinion everyone shold head south and find you a nice small island 🙂
Ruslan Steininger “this is so fake there is no way in hell that there would be a zombie apacalips spend your time on
somthing more usfull”
@ Ruslan ……like learning how to spell and punctuate properly

Thank you CDC for re-contextualizing important information with a little humor. As it turns out, these supplies you
suggest, yeah, they’re just a good idea anyway. I appreciate this use of my money.

The people who are claiming this will never happen and making fun of people because “zombies aren’t real” are really
sorta missing the point and are mostly on their way to being zombies anyway, not to mention highly ignorant of the
things the government spends money on already.

How much tax money is being wasted trying to force personal choices out of our society. I’m betting these are the sorts
of people who totally feel that’s money well spent. I’m betting the expense to discover if a baseball player used steroids
resulted in more expense than this campaign has.

I will be happy to fall back to my “amusing zombie survival kit” when something else happens. Water is water… it’s not
like I would be reserving it just for a zombie apocalypse. “Oh no, this is a terrorist attack, we can’t use those cans of food
until there are zombies”.

Think… for goodness sake

is this real ? did they spot somebody infected with the T-virus or what?

i totaly believe this. i am completly redy four thiz. wil hapin becuz mi ex prudooser/ex yf turnd into a zomby. i shot her
hed of becus she wus being annoying and mean. i found out that she wus a zomby aftur i cild her.

I watched deadliset warrior and found the websuth by finging iot with pausing.

I met a hobo on the street the other day. I invited him in for coffee. Soon after proving he was a zombie he grabed hi
coat, and left. He was nice…

If this happens be ready because in every movie and show the government falls first.GOOD LUCK.

lol its about time someone that can actually have an impact on people says something about zombies, whether it
happens or not you should always be prepared

@ AJ THANKS

And i always thought zombie apocalypse was code for the liberals, silly me.

As a health care provider, if this truely is the position of the CDC then why has there not been a mandate for training on
this? I think that there should be. We are required to train for everything else…..
I agree with the healthcare provider 100%. This can help,people out by teaching them self-defes e and teach them
different strategies on how to get the hell out of dodge and how to let these zombies have it at the same time.

Personally it is about time people think about all the possible senarios of the apocolapyse. within the past decade and
two years we all have been more aquainted with the undead, the point of this is there preparing us for the inevitable and
the cdc are the ones who are going to herd all the mainstream population into detention centers scattered throughout
the US. Relief centers and areas dont have electrified fences and razor wire facing inward, also they dont have stratigecly
placed watchtowers or the proper term called crow`s nests.If you care about the safety of your friends and family dont
trust local law inforcement in uniform and above all any government lapdogs including army, navy marines and spec. op.

Great idea! Alway be prepared! Greetings from Switzerland!

Soooo…are these going to be fast or slow zombeies??? Cuz that makes all the difference in the world!

Everyone should get ready its coming and it won’t stop until you are dead get out now !!! Pray to God and have things
straight with him and maybe just maybe he will save your soul.
May the odds be ever on yur side my friend

My 2-cents, I’m not worried about zombies but being prepared just makes sense.
1. Get to know your neighbors, you’ll be surprised what you can do when you combine resources.
2. Extra batteries on hand, there will be no electricity, no computers, no cell phones after about 1-day.
3. Charcoal Grill, you’ll need to do something about the food thawing in your freezer, my suggestion is a block party. You
can also heat water for personal hygiene.
4. Plastic bucket for city dwellers your sewer system will be shut down, it gets ugly after a day or so. Fill the bathtub with
water for flushing this also can be used as a last resort for drinking water. Don’t live on the first floor or low area, once
the pipes fill up with sewage it start coming up throught the plumbing.
5. Fill your vehicle with gas expecially if you have a generator. There will not be any gas stations open for business.
6. Help out when and where you can, be a part of the solution and not the problem.

My lessons from Hurricane Fran.

my grandma wont beleive it till it happens.I told her that she will be VERY SORRY is it does happen.U see i am a Boyscout
and I am PREPARED.like our motto says BE PREPARED

This is just a hurricane/ tornado survival guide that has the word zombie implanted…nice try CDC youre still behind the 8
ball

Just to make a quick note.if you are in no troble(zombie,disaster) study the facts.What if a zombie sences are dead,only
hearing,there is no point in hiding right.

CDC pretty smart…. many people won’t even read this until you put zombie in it! I know of 3 people who did read this
now since the CDC put zombies on their site

This might be good information for my research. If I use it, I’ll be sure to link back to you and mention you as a resource.

That is really fascinating, You are an excessively skilled blogger. I’ve joined your rss feed and look forward to looking for
more of your excellent post. Also, I have shared your site in my social networks

Thanks a bunch for sharing this with all folks you actually know what you’re speaking about! Bookmarked.

even before reading this i and some freinds are ready for any type of zombie attak. it has even been proven that there is
a virus that kills it’s host then only reives the brain and other organs that are needed to surive. the zombie actually rots
to death…again. look up the author Max Brooks, and his book the zombie survial guide. –U.Z.H.

Be prepared for the Umbrella Project, also get a gas mask and a suit, double barrell for double tap….T-Virus might
come…lots of water/food and battery pack, long range 2-way radio, led 3000 lumens flashlight…..

Various civilian organizations should have ZOMBIE Response teams that work hand in hand with the military!!!

kind of freaky the CDC would post this…sounds like a premeditated outbreak
im scared now
If memory serves me correctly.. The Soviet Union or Germany experimented with reanimation of the dead back in the
40s. They first experimented with dead dogs. Once reanimated the animal survived for several days. The next
experiment was done on deceased human soldiers. After the human body had been dead for days they reanimated it
for over a half hour. They were trying to create the “perfect” soldier! They were made to give up on the experiment
though. However scientists have been experimenting with reanimation for decades and will continue to. I truly believe
that a Zombie Apocalypse could happen! Maybe not today, next year or even 10 years. But it will happen! Well done CDC!

Love it! A year later, and still people are reading and commenting. Who’d have thought that something like this would
not just resonate with readers, but get them thinking.
As a general roundup, there’s a couple of points to consider. First, as a number of people have mentioned, if you have
prepared and have the things you need to survive a zombie apocalypse (or any other type of disease situation which
may lead to a breakdown of society), you have a number of things that others may want. Things they may kill for. Be
prepared to protect what you have if it is necessary.
Second, if you’re going to bug out, you have to consider what the disaster is when making plans for travel and meeting
up again. Choke points such as bridges and tunnels are likely to be clogged, meeting near a river may be somewhat
dodgy in a flood, just as meeting in a forest ain’t so good in a wildfire situation, or meeting in a mall during a true zombie
apocalypse.
A final point, what most people fail to consider in an unexpected emergency is that it is, surprisingly, unexpected. You
really have to check your assumptions: think about the little things that you take for granted. You don’t want to be the
one dashing into the store, leaving behind the famous last words “Don’t worry, I’ll just be a minute…”

Thanks for the inspiration on starting a new blog… Zombie Apocalypse…!!! and great warning….. 🙂 good thing we have a
axe, kitchen knives and some small knives….

So, where were you when patient zero showed up in Miami, Florida?

Per the Miami Herald today…

“The officer ordered the naked man to back away, and when he continued the assault, the officer shot him. The attacker
continued to eat the man, despite being shot, forcing the officer to continue firing. Witnesses said they heard at least a
half dozen shots.”

if the ZA was virus related or bacteria of some sort were all fraked. head to the open seas and learn to swim. water, duct
tape and a copy of your ss card will do you no good my friend. buy a HOUSE BOAT !!!!

Proof. The duties of the CDC have now been officially turned over to the staff of the National Enquirer. It is all starting to
make sense now. First the hoax about Swine Flu, now this……….

So we are to store food, water, tp, toothpaste, etc…..but I thought you would be labeled a terrorist for doing these things.
I am so confused!!

First Zombie Attack, Miami May 26th, 2012…

This article makes me have SO much more respect for the CDC. Way to eschew bureaucratic bore. Glad you guys are
looking out for us.

Kind of freaky to say a man had his face chewed of by a naked man in miami on saturday, he was shot several times but
continued to eat his face. He even growled!!

Fore the people who want baseball bats and chainsaws ?

you like zombie blood al over you and in your eyes and mouth or wounds ?
Lock yourself in were brute force wont get them in.
and waith it out
dead flesh won`t be walking around long due to maggot`s and other animals like vultures.
Let alone the normal rotting under the sun.

Are you kidding me? What were you thinking when you posted this? The CDC has just lost some credibility in my book.

THERE WAS A CANNIBAL ATTACK IN MIAMI BEACH!!!!!!!!! Zombiessssssnlriknqeb;

Did anyone read about the man eating another man’s face in Miami on Saturday? They said he was shot several times
and actuall growled at the officer.
IT HAS BEGUN, in Miami!

You know, maybe you should forward this post to the Miami PD. I mean, they had trouble putting down a facce-eating
zombie!

Its has finally happend people……yesterday may 27 2012 at 2pm in miami florida police responded to a call of two men
fighting. When an officer arrived on the sence a naked unidentafied male was on top of another male and he was eating
his face…..witness’s state the officer order him to back away from the man and the “suspect” turn towards the officer and
grawled at him and continued his attack so from a range of less then ten the officer fired one round at center mass and
it had no effect on the “suspect” so the officer was forced to fire 4 more rounds before he finally drop dead…..when emts
arrived it was reported that the victem had over 75% of the fleash on his face missing and was still alive….officals say the
attack was brought on my “cocaine psychosis” but we all no wat the truth is….ive curntly packed up and left florida
headed to my fater inlaws house in the mountains of colorado were we have all of the supply we need to be the final
surrviors and for u none believers go to Fox.com and type miami shootings into the search engine itll be the first thing to
pop up

if a zombie Apocalypse happens you dont stay in one place you get some friends,supplys and a car and dont stop driving
camp out for a night an then when u get up u get back in the car and leave again and i know that cars run on gas and ur
thinking if u run out f gas ur screwed but just google how to make gas out of wood and then ul have an infinite supply of
fuel for everything

Non-believers, don’t you think that if the CDC posted something of this nature, it MIGHT be true?
I’m pretty sure the CDC knows more about this sort of thing than all of us. They are the Center for Disease Control, after
all.

In the news they said that in Miami there was this man who was naked and bit a mans face off and the police shot at him
once and he didn’t stop and they kept shooting him until he was dead they said it was cocaine that drove this man
insane,but i think it was a chemical virus or something related to the matter.the man (the one with his face bit off) was
taken to the hospital and I think it won’t be long until something big happens I might be wrong but if there are
roadblocks in the Florida’s border i wont be surprised,the bad thing is I’m in Florida.

Well if they move like those from “Night of the Living Dead”, we’re cool. If they move like those from “I Am Legend”, we
may be toast. Side humor.

Any idea when this is going to take place? Was this incident in Florida the beggining? And also are condoms still effective
with zombies or should you just avoid sex with them all together?

what if zombies come, whenn theres a hurricane AND a tornado?!?!?!!?1//1

Man, this is just so cool, dudes!

Yeah, and the next thing you can waste millions of dollars on is what to do in case the Dark Lord Sauron invades the
country with a horde of orcs. Stop throwing away tax-payer dollars on this $#!t. Because, you know… it’s make-believe.
There’s no such thing as zombies…

Don’t trust the CDC. This is complete bullcrap. They don’t want to save us from zombies, they want to make us into
zombies. I smell a man-made virus a brewing.

All I have to say is have Zombie action plan even if you don’t think you would ever need it. The plan can be used for
natural disters……You be happy you came up with a plan and know that your family is safe. Just sayin………………

Bullcrap, all you need is a pair of special sunglasses. They not only make you look cool, but they make you invisible to the
zombie eye. Trust me I have pair!

I can’t believe some people are angry that you spent 10 minutes to make an entertaining blog that has information that
can help in a non-zombie situation. What idiot would actually think “millions of dollars” was spent on this? At least they
are safe since they don’t have any brains to begin with. One thing I would add though. Make sure you keep a friend with
you that its fed that you can outrun or easily trip!

ok so the CDC now has a plan for zombies….its a sign people start preparing cause if they didnt think zombies could
happen they would do this…..for real they know its GONNA happen thats why they made it…..think outside the box i
have a plan but not sharing cause less people means survival for me….your weaker is numbers in my opinion stealth will
be your best asset…avoid the confrontation of a zombie at all costs…..take high vantage points to scope out your route
and to see whats around…..if you can find some kind of radio transmitter put a signal out for help and wait for a day or
two and keep an eye where you say youll meet incase its a set up if someone hears it…thats all for now

Zombies, zombies, zombies. Thanks for being awesome!

Guys we just had one in Miami our imaginatio can be true. Virus can mutant in hard way to see.

Alright well a great idea would be to get a boat and sail around till you find an island that is deserted and then start
rebuilding the human race one baby at a time.

To Jeff who wrote the post above mine… This was actually a clever spin on how to be prepared for natural disasters… Did
u see anything about weapons? Didn’t think so! And u really think they would tell u to meet at ur mailbox out front in the
event of a zombie invasion oh wait they also said or fire…. Learn how to read. this was put together fairly well allowing
readers to gain knowledge on how to be prepared in the unfortunate event of a natural disaster… Some people just
need to learn tO read between the lines also this should have stated that an epidemic of the such is quite impossible to
keep radicals from really believing such allibies. That being said I thought this would be good to help educate youngsters
on emergency preparation…

Ok i’m kind of worried now about this whole zombie apocolypse thing? is it real? or is it just fear from too many horror
movies should we worry about diseases that are “REAL!” also certain illegal drugs make people weird out and become a
drug induced zombie. i need some info please? thank you

Katie horton

This is moronic, viruses reproduce off LIVING cells. It is literally impossible for a corpse which has no life in it to come
alive.

Not to mention the fact that if they are buried and then come alive – they’d have a hard time getting out their grave.

In case you all haven’t heard there has already been a case were a dead person, which had been dead for several hours
due to heart failure, came back to life and attacked the doctors at the morgue. He bit one of them at which point the
other doctor hit the “dead ” guy on the head, putting him down. Later during the autopsy they found a type of parasite in
the patient’s brain. The point being that the body was beginning to decompose when he came back to life and the
doctors seem to believe that the brain parasite were responsible for his reanimation. This occurred in Hospital
Procardiaco, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 1998.
There have been several more cases reported since.

This is great!!

Fantastic way to use entertainment & humor to encourage emergency preparation. Hope to see more entertaining tie-
ins to other entertainment & cultural offerings, deftly stating what some believe, and encouraging the preparedness the
CDC desires. Plus the bonus of using a “disaster” topic that is unlikely to happen – preventing some of the avoidance
coping mechanism that so many have. Excellent! Maybe something on the “21 December 2012 Apocalypse” would be
entertaining too.

zombies DO exist this is the 5th attack in miami alone (many more around the world) JUST TWO DAYS AGO and even
though there WAS a victum submited in the hospital AND on the news, the hospital DELETED all records of the Victum
being submited after words and is no word about the victum. Google (zombie attack in miami) you will see the images
for your self! The zombie was shot in the leg looked at us growled then CONTINUED TO EAT THE VICTUMS FACE after
words was shot in the back then was mad and ran at the cops and took ANOTHER 3 shots to the chest befor he went
down.

To everyone yelling at the CDC about wasted taxpayer dollars:

I’ll be barricading my safehouse and stockpiling, while I enjoy the fact that all of you fell victim to the Zombie Apocalypse.

Also, you quit wasting my tax dollars on your government incentives, federal grants, any and all tax breaks and write offs
and get a sense of humor.

Isn’t this an official government website? Haha, its cool though. Its good to get people prepared, thanks CDC. You should
add a list of weapons as well. Might I suggest: Aluminum Baseball bat, crowbar,
ok. so is it just me. or does the cdc have nothing to do with hurricames or tornados. why would a disease control agency
care if if we are prepared for a NATURAL DISASTER. i would take this as a joke if it were on a preparedness website. but
the fact it is on a disease control website makes me think there is more to it. ya. pandemic. of zombies. they know
somethin we dont obviously. so ya. get prepared.

Why did you repost the April 2011 Joke CDC.

Has everyone forgotten that the CDC was over run in every single zombie movie ever made?? How much help do you
think they will be…and im pretty sure the zombie virus will come from the CDC anyways.

Yep there was a zombie attack in Miami Florida and from what I hear one in Texas now not too sure on that one. I don’t
go on hearsay but man I saw the pic of the homeless man with his face eaten off. Poor guy. If I was him I would ask the
doctor to inject the death stuff in my IV.

omg…is this true!!!???….me and my family love zombies movies…but these could be true???…….even my baby girl told her
father today that a sword that he has was to kill zombies….my son will be happy to see one he always play to be one and
loves walking dead series and hes 5 yrs old….the world is getting crazy….but if the cdc is saying this there could be
somthing true about it!!!…. (:

K if this is an absolute real threat, make sure to look at “Zombie Survival Guide” by Max Brooks. If it’s not a real threat it’s
a good read anyways.

Here’s a theory on the recent “zombie attacks”… maybe they are trying to convince us that they do exist so that people
stock up on firearms and gear up with survival supplies so maybe we stand a chance if our government turns on us and
tries taking us out of our homes and into fema camps or whatever the plan may be? I bet a lot of people are preparing
for a “zombie attack.”In an odd way it makes sense… I think?

you guys are dumb -.-

read at the end, “Have you begun preparing for a zombie apocalypse? Or maybe you have been preparing for a more
realistic threat like hurricanes or the next flu season?”
its obviously fake x)

Come on now, people. Take this post for face value. As a member of the younger generation, I thought this was a really
cool way of approaching a subject my generation doesn’t necessarily care about, emergency preparedness. this was a
great way to target an audience that normally would not be interested. Props to the CDC!

This is probably the most stupid claims of the cdc. I wouldnt mind killing zombies but you have to be realistic

I applaud the cdc on this because people are fascinated with this and what better way to use the zombie apocalypse to
make people be prepared for emergencies such as flood, hurricanes, tornadoes, and eek zombies!

this is either fake or real.

my mom says don’t worry girl it will be alright
WELL IT ISN’T!!!
I WATCHED LIKE SO MANY ZOMBIE MOVIES THAT I CAN’T EVEN COUNT HOW MANY I SAW!!!
Now here is the advice THAT IS SUPPOSED TO HELP!!!:
2. MAKE AN EMERGENCY PLAN
3. MAKE AN EMERGENCY KIT
4. FIND SOMEWHERE TO GO IF THE ZOMBIES INVADE YOUR HOUSE(like game vault)
5. MAKE SURE THERE IS FUEL IN YOUR CAR IF YOUR GOING OUT OF THE STATE OR ANYWHERE ELSE
6. PACK USEFUL STUFF LIKE MEDICAL STUFF
7. MOST IMPORTANTLY!!!! STAY ALIVE 🙂
I find it hilarious and odd that the CDC posted this over a year ago as a joke. Now there have been several “zombie”
attacks and the CDC has put out a statement that there is no impending zombie apocalypse. Very odd. Either it’s a case
of something coming back to bite you or a grand cover up.

It is so reassuring to know that the CDC has the time and resources to dispense information on a zombie apocolypse?
How insulting to the American people! Are you poking fun at the very genuine fear and anxiety people are experiencing
after what we know happened in the Miami attack; as well as the young man whose heart was eaten?
What is wrong with the CDC? This isn’t even remotely funny. I am a registered nurse who has spent 11 of the past 17
years working in the emergency department. I have witnessed first hand the effects of drug abuse…insanity, suicide
attempts, dead children and the list goes on and on. Drug abuse is not a joke…just ask the families of the victims.
I live in South Florida and I can tell you we are NOT laughing!! Does the CDC consider a man losing 75% of his face
because of a drug crazed maniac, funny and worth assigning an enitire blog page including “survival” tips?
I am calling for the immediate termination of whoever authored this blog (assistant surgeon general, maybe?). This was
done in VERY poor taste. The CDC poking fun at what is a very real and threatening trend in this country is just
disgusting.
How about using the time you spent on this blog to actually help solve the problem?
CDC you are a disgrace….

I appreciate that the CDC originally posted this a year ago with the intention of getting people thinking about being
prepared for all kinds of emergencies, but I personally can’t help but ask myself with all the recent ‘zombie’ activities in
the news, “Do they know something they’re not telling us?” To all you people who are fussing over the CDC waisting time
and money on this blog: If it helps teach people how to prepare for devastation, then how is it a waste? It has served its
purpose.. But really though, with all of the recent craziness, I’m getting ready regardless. I’m not crazy. I’m just not an
idiot. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it’s probably a duck right.. Well following the same logic: If it looks like a
zombie, attacks and eats humans like a zombie, it’s probably a zombie. A zombie apocalypse is possible!!! With all the
different chemicals we put in our bodies everyday, it would only make sense for there to be some dangerous outcome.

Wow really? Let’s prepare for zombies? Why not godzilla? Its nice to see what great lengths our government is going to lie
to us and scare us into doing.

Why no mention of defensive and/or hunting tools such as firearms and baseball bats? The list is not complete.

If there is any emergency especially a “Zombie Apocalypse” I expect my State and Federal Government to take care of me
and provide me with emergency supplies and equipment.

i am 40 yrs old & have been interested in survival preparedness since i was a kid. i have always pitched preparedness to
my family, and no one ever is interested. not even my 17 yr. old cares to go over & update the emergency gear once or
twice a year. this article makes the topic interesting & fun. anything that helps families get ready for any emergency isn’t
a waste of time. i think zombie squad is a great idea.

I wouldn’t sugest an aluminum baseball bat, perhaps wood, gotta be able to drive the nails through it. lol

Any thoughts on the recent string of cannibalism?

The sad thing that all of you are thinking that this is for the “zombie apocalypse” is that it is actually the CDC’s way of
getting prepared for a natural disaster in a constructive way. How many people clicked on this link just because it had
the words “zombie prepardeness” in it. But I guess by being prepared for the zombie apocalypse at least you are
prepared for anything else to come your way. So in closing, touche CDC, touche.

I love the idea of using something in pop culture like the Zombie Apocalypse as a way to educate people on things such
as emergency preparedness. Keep it up, guys!

Real of fake, the point is : It could Happen. Be Prepared for ANYTHING.

With mankind constantly producing drugs, it is possible. “Zombie” doesn’t necessarily mean “walking dead”. It can also
refer to someone who is so doped up on garbage they act like the zombies we see in movies. Dead flesh has nothing to
do with it.

This wasn’t posted last year as anything more than to help draw people into becoming prepared for natural disasters,
disease outbreaks, and the like. I certainly enjoyed it, even though I’m always tried to be prepared for anything.

Considering the ever increasing use of drugs and crime, not to mention how viruses and bacteria can mutate? I find it
entirely possible that between them all, an outbreak of “zombies” can happen. Look at the news. We have people eating
people. Call it Cannibalism or a living ‘zombie’, it doesn’t matter. The truth is, it CAN happen. Never Say Never. It is
definitely better to be safer than sorry. I don’t believe dead people will walk, but I do believe people can turn ‘zombie’
when they’re stoned out of their skulls.

I for one, have a plan in place in case of ANY emergency. ‘Zombies’, quakes, floods, fire, invasions, outbreaks. I’d rather
be prepared and know my family is as ready as we can be for anything. Besides, even though the movies are fake, there
are still lessons to be learned from them.
Special announcement. Zombies are fake. Even if we really, really, really believe they’re real, they’re still fake. It was a
movie folks, and not really a good one. Also, vampires and Star Bellied Sneeches are fake too. Believe in them all you
want. There’s no such thing. Not even Santa Claus or the Easter bunny believe.

They can’t cure the common cold and you trust them with this madness?

Stop smoking bath salts and there will be no zombies lol

I agree with the CDC entirely. If you are prepared for zombies, you are prepared for anything. I’ve been saying that for
years, and felt so strongly about it, I decided to start a business providing people with a source to Stay safe. Stay alive.

Ok, so whether the Zombie Apocolypse is upon us or not; The CDC made this page for general awareness for the public
about disaster preparedness.
I’m not upset that some of my taxpayer money went to the creation of this page. It IS a very good way to inform a
younger, and less interested generation of good ways to prepare for a natural disaster or otherwise. So all the angry
bloggers, lay off…. and if you were so pissed about the CDC using our tax money and wasting your time, why bother to
read this in the first place?
And just so everyone knows…. the brain holds an electrical charge for up to months after one dies… so there is a good
possibility that some form of biological warfare could stimulate the electrical charge in a corpse and reanimate the
already dead. because, as you all know, the brain is responsible for EVERYTHING we do. So, there ya have it folks.. don’t
write off something you yourself can not disprove.

I can’t believe that the cdc has not pulled this from their website and made a national formal apology. It make you
wonder is this a real pandemic or not? Where is the updated news about Ronald Poppo? I called the cdc a month before
the incident in Miami happened and the lady that I spoke with assured me that this was not a joke. Why won’t the
government admit that something is going on, because they don’t want us to panic and turn on them and each other?
Oh it takes only one infected to get into a fema camp then everyone is toast literally. A person with rabies can portray
characteristics’ of zombies why don’t they mention this.

Whoever came up with this deserves a HUGE raise!

Preparing for a zombie apocalypse is hard! Especially when you don’t know if the pathogen is airborne (gas masks) or
transferred through bites. (fluid transfer shielding, splash guards, rubberized kevlar fabric clothing) I already have a tote
for my Hurricane evacuation, and another for my Meteor impact kits. I’ve dedicated a whole section of my garage to my
various kits, just to be sure.

Um..

I’m thinking that apocalypse means this is going to last a little longer than a few days. . This ain’t no flash flood, or
earthquake. Self defense is as important as the batteries for the radio.

Better safe then sorry I guess. I have always thought that this could be possible. About a two years ago I had a nightmare
about this actually happening. In a way it sorta is because of that drug MDPV aka Bath Salts. Crazy.
It should be interesting to see what else will come to be.

If there is a zombie apocalypse coming I suggest you head out to sea but dont go as 1 group, maintain distance at all
times. Go by boat, head for an unpopulated island and take fishing equipment, a packet of seeds and a syanide tablet.

Don’t get confused haters… This blog is very logical, the CDC is simply using this oppurtunity to tap into a segement of
the population that they cannot normally reach… These are dollars well spent and the goal is obviously for serious
disasters and the need to have an emergency kit… duh.

Start playing Resident Evil games and use them as practice. That’s our technical survival guide.

A tip to the CDC if there is a zombie apocolyps comming check if the microb can carry a small electric charge

Because that could be the way it would restart part ofnthe brain

In response to: Venessa

You should pay closer attention before going off on some beligerant, ignorant tirade. This blog was made over a year
ago on May 16th, 2011 11:48 am ET. This blog was not made after the Miami incident, it was made almost exactly one
year before the recent attack in Miami. Your entire comment is thus futile and a waste of time.
Hello! They already live among us, people who smoke bath salts and eat faces, etc off other people…extreme meth
addicts…let me tell you from personal experience, they lose their humanity…but this is a GREAT disaster prep article…if
the drug problem in this country doesn’t get under control…it can only get worse…

There’s obvious motive behind this posting…. Not saying that it’s smoke in mirrors or even going to happen. Sometimes
the less we know the better in my mind. In all realism I think this blog posting may have helped concerned citizents
believe they’re safe. But when NATO’s trying to poisen you the CDC won’t even know what to do.

I have to say bravo CDC i love that you are using a method to reach us as the younger generation in an area that is
interesting to us to secretly, in a way get us honestly thinking about the worst case senarios and preparing, even if its as
🙂
a joke were still thinkin so again way to go its nice to know that atleast some entities of the government are still
somewhat human with a sense of humor…..and ps to those throwin a fit about this….just shut ur mouths. Whether
realistic or not atleast it has people thinkin about safety which is a very incredible accomplishment. Oh and P.S.
according to my university professor of biology here in Harvard, a mutated strain of the rabies virus or mad cow disease
could have zombie like capabilities. FYI viruses actually do mutate most dont realize but bird flu and swine flu are both
the normal flu only mutated, although unlikely, its not as farfetched as you would think so educate yourself before
coming across like a jackass.

Mock the government’s attempts to warn you and bicker among yourselves, but we are here now. So many brains and
many unused. We become impatient.

If one of your EX’s shows up in FULL ZOMBIE Mode………………… Is it THEN ” PC ” and law abiding to Whack her a few ”
Good One’s ” or not allowed ?
I have a few that I’m 99% POSITIVE will continue to be FLESH EATERS and are GOING to show up !
Your thought’s ?

This is great. Got a backpack set out and ready. I suggest studying the Walking Dead or any other educational film of that
genre

I noticed that some of the comments about the emergency zombie preparedness kit were just very rude that the CDC
would come up with this. I think it is wonderful. I am a full supporter of the zombie squad and for anyone who does not
know what that is let me tell you. A while back a group of friends were all sitting around and watching zombie flix. They
started talking about what they would do if they were ever in that situation. Totally hypothetical of course. From there it
grew. The zombie squad is very big in communities helping people to learn the things to do incase of any type of
emergency. This is what the CDC means by having a zombie apokolipse preparedness kit. It helps to teach people what
to do incase of pandemics, earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and all other major disasters such as terrorist
attacks. I think it is great and I hope everyone involved keeps up the great work. I am always open minded and gun hoe
when it comes to learning new techniques and suggestions on how to servive and keep my family alive during any type
of emergency. YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT COULD HAPPEN OR WHEN IT COULD HAPPEN. People really need to wake up,
pay attention, and get themselves prepared. This day in age no one can be 100% sure that nothing will ever happen. We
need to be prepared and ready. Thank you to all of those who are spending their time and effort to educate people to
keep themselves safe!

Hmm, zombie apocalypse I think anything is possible at this point. Like they say anything you can imagine is real. I guess
you’ll also need guns&baseball bats you know to shot or hit their head. And I wouldn’t stay in my home to hide from
zombies, I’ll seek a secret shelter where there is not a lot of windows maybe underground or some where unpopulated
and make a barricade around it.Stock up on ammo, non perishable food, water,etc. I guess I watch to many things about
zombies.

National Incident Management System

I have some unique questions regarding application of ICS, especially as it applies to Zombie Apocalypse Survival
Training.
Our company’s internships are very much about reawakening college students, and reskilling them both for the
challenges their generation faces, and for jobs with cutting edge firms committed to building that future.
NIMS question relates to a system that assumes resources are available, and just need to be appropriately brought to
bear for any particular acute disaster/incident.
My question is for a chronic incident
If the mess is out of food, supplies are out of food, and there is nowhere any can be purchased for the foreseeable
future, where in the NIMS structure does the responsibility lie to go out and organize the growing, processing, and
storage of it to feed the communities. Think Katrina, think much larger scale, and think much longer duration.
What does this have to do with CDC? Food security is needed for healthy population is needed for survivability.
Being prepared for any reason is better than not being prepared at all. Everything the CDC is putting out is everything
you need to do in any disaster type situation.

remember the whole resident evil game series was based on a powerful agency like CDC who made a VIRUS that turned
people into ZOMBIES… we’ve been prepared (conditioned) for this since Night of the Living Dead…

First thing, What if an EMP is detonated within the atmosphere? It will wipe out everything thats electronic without
warning. Second, What if the zombies are runners? Third, Medications is the best thing you can carry because currency
will lose its value and barter will be the only system of trade. Finally, Its never a good idea to stay held up in one location
keep moving every few days, the longer you stay the more these zombies stockpile on your location. Keep your head
held high always be on alert and try to stay out of heavy situations. As always, Have a nice day.

Maybe thr “zombies guide” is really geared towards the collapse of thr economy. Afterwords, the streets will be full of
people starving and eating everything in sight while the elites sit in ivory towers eating steak. Maybe THAT zombie
apocalypse isn’t so far fetched. Maybe this isn’t a joke…worth considering.

Beware of zombies in the Himalayas.

Thanks for posting this. It is a humorous look at a serious subject, disaster preparedness. With so much extreme
weather these days, never mind the zombies, look to the skies in the form of tornadoes, hurricanes and so on. And as
you are preparing, be sure to make provisions for all your pets!

Lately there have been news on a man eating another man’s face off in Miami, a man eating his son’s eyeballs out in
California. These incidents are caused by a synthetic cocaine / acid. Now if a virus mutated which is likely since viruses
tend to mutate at some point, could the zombie apocalypse become a reality? It’s always better safe than sorry. I actually
purchased a ninja sword just in case. Call me crazy lol.

Another thing to ponder about, as population density increases, resources decrease. With lack of food, I can see
cannibalistic behavior arise. Population is something that is hard to control. Humans have screwed up the world by
killing off insects etc. that play an important role in our ecosystem. People overbreeding having 4+ children. Land keeps
getting torn down to create housing. Seriously, WTF are we doing to the earth!? Younger generations growing up with
crap media making them think they NEED things when they are WANTS (stupid housewives shows, kardashians, jersey
shore, etc). Priorities have seriously become screwed up. How many people do you know could live in the woods and live
off the land? Younger generations are not educated in this area and those who attend Boy Scouts, they get picked on
and made fun of in schools so they stop. Media is screwing up our children’s natural instincts. Wake up people and start
teaching your children the most basic principles in life!!! Oh wait, most probably can’t teach their children b/c they
wouldn’t know where to start!

I tend to think, the possibility of SHTF will occur. In our society, there is no such thing as natural selection. Population will
just increase, jobs have decreased, people will become desperate. We alone are like zombies, we’ve destroyed the world.
Once every country reaches the billions in population, we are all seriously screwed. It might change as the government
will need to do something about the population, people will find it “not fair” that they cannot have more than 1 child etc.
WAKE UP, your birth certificate did NOT say that life will be fair.

People need to THINK b/4 they act. Families such as “Kate and only 8″… Ignorant people breading like crazy.

We are just setting us all up for failure…

I am not concerned about the brain eaters. I am concerned about the mass exodus from cities that have NO idea how to
survive on their own, their only option will be plundering any thing in their path. Say the electrical grid takes a big hit no
power. Everything is run by electric. What are they going to do but leave the city. Or an epidemic, terrorist chem release
these things are REAL and totally OUT
SIDE of governmental control. There will be NO immediate help from the government. Look how well they did during
Katrina or the rodney king riots. These type of things are the reason our forefathers had militias. The true militia is NOT
the dumb azsed hill billy it is every citizen willing to stand together to protect and help each other. Read the constitution
The federal government is only in chare of stopping an invasion

typical of a goverment run website…food water important documents….nothing about weapons or ammo to save your
family with lol what good is impotant documents when ya got people who wanna chew on your face off chasing ya oh
thats right thats what dialing 911 is for
Get out of big cities 7 days of food and water for each individual in your party find
most secluded area available and become as self sufficient as possible
been prepared since 1981

In the movie “Wings of Desire.” what the angels admire most about humans is our art and stories. It easy to grasp the
threat of a zombie war; beside, we live in a digitally-lobitimized world were we have an ever increasing average BMI
feeding on a starving world. We are zomboid! The concept of using a global zombie incident prep website administered
by a government agency is ingenious.

I fear the our destiney will be much more fearsome than hords of slow moving dead people.

Ok IF a zombie apocalypse happened…. just kill the first people who are infected. If all else fails and the undead become
too powerful and over populated, I would go to a tropical island that way i will have plenty of food like cocanuts and little
critters and water supply such as fresh water streams, never heard of a zombie swiming. Unless zombie’s become
smarter and learn how to fly helicopters or drive boats I should be good, Also before you head to your island go to
walmart pick up canned food (just in case) and get some guns, from sports section, (although no automatics) and fishing
poles/nets. get a whole bunch of medical stuff like- asprin, band-aids, cut cleaner, and medical wrap. instead of freaking
out i was just stop, think, and then act. I hope my post buzzed a few thoughts in your */|\brain/|\*<–(don't let Z-O-M-B-I-
E-S have)

Thank you CDC. And for all of you older or otherwise unimaginative people out there, I believe this is an excellent and
thoughtful way to relate a cultural fad to a real life potentially emergent situation. Also, as a healthcare professional I
believe that nothing in medicine is 100%, viruses and bacteria mutate all the time. Who is to say that there is no way this
could ever happen?

All your kit listed is fine and good, but what about the means to keep it when someone who did not bother to prepare
decides that they need it worse than you do?

this is great, i have a gret fear of zombie so this willhelp me prepare!thanks

Have they gone mad, this is insane talk about not trying to start a panic or anything. I like the idea and everything but
why choose zombies as a way of advertising lol, this does not do anything to quell peoples imaginations and fears. Surely
there’s a better way of advertising, or perhaps the CDC is really getting the general public prepared for something.
Governments and organisations usually let out little snippets of information before an event or occurrence. I am
shocked to say the least, if it is just advertising its a real strange way of doing it; and not uniform to, or the standard
practice that serious organisations usually take. My head is boggled at this one.

Don’t bother preparing for zombies! They are simplly not real. ut there is honestly nopoint in preparing unless the govt.
starts going insane and starts tests on humans while trying making zombies. Itmay be smart to prepare for a hurricane
or earth-quake, but zombie apocolypse… not happening! Hey whats that in the doorway… aaaaaaggggghhhhh ZOMBIE!

long last the government lets the threat be know theyve known for years but we arent suppose to know about it dont let
them fool you its real it was probably designed by scientist

It’s nice that the cdc wants to inform us ox this but we’ve all watched the movies who always. Dies First the government
sigh protect ur family and ur country don’t trust the government if somthin like this did happen it would probably be
there fault, and most important of all were all still americans we need go stick together I ain’t gonna lie I’m kinks
prejudice but if this had of a situation happened im willing to set qside ky differences an fight a Americans and they our
country back on track have a great day an god bless us an an god bless America

in response to Donocan Young’s post on May 16, “I might suggest adding a baseball bat, preferably aluminum, to your
emergency kit as well. It doesn’t require ammunition and can be highly effective at clearing a path through hordes of
zombies whilst trying to make good your escape.” Aluminum bats tend to work well for a little while but after a maximum
of about 20 strikes, depending on your strength, they will start to bend, distort, and become utterly ineffective very
quickly. Read Max Brook’s book ‘The Zombie Survival Guide’ for a lot more detail about surviving against the undead.

And for those of you who don’t believe that the zombie apocalypse will ever happen, here’s a little tidbit of information
for you: Its quite simple for an 11th grade student to genetically engineer a bacteria that is resistant to multiple types of
antibiotics (like I did for my science fair project). Just imagine how someone with the knowledge could create something
like a genetically engineered virus to be a zombie virus, or how easy it would be for a biology grad student with access to
a university laboratory. 🙂 So far tests are coming along nicely. Although the transfer from an infected subject to a clean
one is proving difficult. More subjects needed for testing. Any volunteers?
I’m actually kind of scared that this may become full scale… I don’t mind death, but I don’t like being eaten alive. But just
to add on, whether or not it has already been posted:

Baseball bats (Doesn’t attract any zombies; noiseless)

I also had the idea that there should be a ‘basement’ shelter that can hold thousands upon thousands of people. Have
loads of food and drink, maybe a working restroom, and beds. Like, incase there ‘was’ a zombie attack, people could go
underground…

In every city/town…

Kind of like ‘Fallout’ the game.

zombies rip people apart, there wont be anything left of the ‘victims’ so the zombie race will die out real quick because
‘new zombies’ arent being made.

your welcome and have a nice sleep

As you are aware from all the Zombie movies, Its the governments that create the Zombies by trialing substances in
humans that we dont really need. There goes organic – non GMO nutrition for you lol So we get pumped with chemicals
that were probably pushed through by government labs regardless of the risks to depopulize the Earth and maybe sell
some Zombie kits while they at it to make a profit.

But hey, all Im saying is government needs to stop testing chemicals on humans and start cleaning up the mess they
created in the first place.

oh and leave the 500 000+ dead bodies of the swine flu victims alone please. We dont want Zombies! lol

I think by the end of 2012 there would be Worldwide Epidemic or zombie Apocalypse as one might say, and the U.S.
Government is Covering it up like they did when Roswell happened and other things that shaped modern America.what i
think is that when they issued this article was because they were afraid that the virus would of grown and spread to the
public, so they wrote the following article to show the people that it was close to happening but it didn’t. either that or
they were working on something and something went wrong but they stopped but since it was a close call so again they
made this article.

What about self defense?

There are commenters who do not seem to be aware that this is a humorous way to get people involved in emergency
preparedness. Wow. I am amazed how many are taking the post literally (really, more than one is A LOT), and
complaining about our tax dollars paying for it.

It’s called ‘tongue in cheek’ folks!

But on a more serious note: When the Zombies of the Apocolypse are chewing on those folks’ heads, maybe they’ll
realize “Hey! The CDC warned me about this and I shoulda liste….gaarrrggghhhh…braaaains!”

It is really a nice and useful piece of information. I’m glad that you shared this useful info with us. Please stay us up to
date like this. Thank you for sharing.

See Orson Welles in War of the Worlds. Gotta go now and eat a homeless man’s face – see ya!

Normally I do not learn post on blogs, however I wish to say that this write-up very pressured me to check out and do it!
Your writing style has been amazed me. Thanks, very great article.

ha! they didnt approve my post! there was nothing bad in it at all. just info they dont want people to know about! them
not accepting my comment tells me ALL i need to know!
i will not go to one of them “camps” they call “safe”

It’s in reality a nice and useful piece of info. I’m glad that you simply shared this helpful info with us. Please keep us
informed like this. Thank you for sharing.

no such thing as zombies be realistic!!!!!!!!!

hey guys i would just like to say that, get a good fortified base, food. Dont be a jerk and become a bandit. You dont have
to kill people and take THEIR supplies there are plenty of other places to scavenge.

thanks for the attempt to get people thinking. i once saw a few dozen people needing water really bad. not everyone
lived through it, some wish they had not.

Excellent article! Bonne contination à vous 🙂

why will they said there no zombie apocalypse why every thing u see now it about zombie

Im not gonna kill them, Im gonna Frank West them

I would like to add that the Bible speaks of a time when death will be taken away, during a time of judgement in Rev. 9
This by zombie definition is not the same thing , however there are some things happening during that time which could
possibly be compared to this so-called zombie apocalypse . ( BRIEFLY ) The 5th trumpet sounds and demons are released
from hell and allowed to torment men for 5 months. During that time men will loooong for death but it will be taken
from them. I can imagine some people so screwed up by thier attemted suicde. They will not be allowed to die. It will be
terrible for all of manklnd. Some no doubt WILL LOOK LIKE ZOMBIES !!!!!

. I would have lots of Twinkies, and any other foods that don’t expire, Coca Cola, coffee and water for food and beverage
supplies. I would also heavily supply isopropyl alcohol, hydrogen peroxide and disinfectant wipes for medical supplies.

I also read somewhere that it would be a good idea to rip out your carpet and wrap yourself up in it using duct tape… the
zombies would not be able to bite through the carpet possibly allowing you to walk right through a crowd of them.

To Fran who said “no such thing as zombies be realistic!!!!!!!!!” All I can say is “Well duh, not until the Zombie Apocolypse
happens”.

Thanks CDC for the warning and the laughs. And to all the people who commented about this article being a waste of
time, get over yourselves.

I think having some means of defense would be a good addition to this list. Whether it be a bat, pistol, shotgun, bazooka,
tank or a slingshot, you need something to keep the pesky zombies off your front lawn.

CDC Zombie Apocolypse Guide to cover actual crysis events. Brilliant PR job! Bravo!

It’s nice to know, that the CDC has noticed this rise of hysteria about zombies. It’s understandable though seeing all the
things that can be done with science and how movies keep urging the thought of one experiment gone wrong and bam!
Zombie Apocalypse, maybe Hollywood should cut back on zombie flicks. (I don’t favor zombies and I am so unprepared
for anything). Best plan head north to -xx degree weather and survive.

YOU NEED ANTIBIOTICS FOR THE APOCOLYPSE!!!! PLEASE PLEASE LISTEN!! YOU MAY MAKE IT THRU THE WHATEVER
ENDS THE WORLD BUT I CAN GAURENTEE YOU WONT MAKE IT THRU AN INFECTION!!! GET ABX!!!! STOCK UP! NO ONE
TELLS YOU THAT!!

If you want to read a practical guide to surviving the zombie apocalypse, check out this guide

http://www.zombieguidebook.com

As the artist who helped create the CDC’s Zombie Pandemic graphic novella, I have to say I’m about as surprised as
everyone else at how viral it all went.

It was covered on CBS News, ABC News, Huffington Post, The Colbert Report, LA Times and a host of other news and
entertainment outlets around the country and overseas. My cover art is everywhere right now so on behalf of the
creative team behind it, we’re quite thrilled despite what some of the detractors are saying.

Even Max Brooks (the upcoming Brad Pitt film “World War Z” is based on his book) came to visit us and get a copy of the
printed version of the book and the producers of The Walking Dead loved it as well.

I think it was a brilliant campaign so hats off to Dr. Ali Khan. We had fun, too!

I believe keeping at leat enuf food and water kept put away for up to 2 weeks. do not touch it. Keep Canned Goods, and
all water. Anyting that spoils Enjoy it while you can. The LQP-79 virus is too blame. Friend of mine seen a Convoy of
Hazmat Vehicles & National Guard Drive through their city. Not speaking a word. Then I seen a video of it on youtube.
Something is going down. Why would the government let a Viral Bio weapon like LQP-79 hit the streets? START TALKING!

This is very interesting and im not to suprised there is a possibility of it happening. Although in many different movies
there are different kinds of zombies. Such as slow moving and stupid zombies from Dawn of the Dead, or would they be
much faster and smarter, such as I Am Legend (Even though I Am Legend enemies aren’t classified as zombies).

Totally hilarious. The zombie apocalypse is coming and we all better watch out.

i have my kit made and im ready for the apocalypse bring it on zombies i will be waitning

Great post. I was checking continuously this blog and I am inspired! Very useful info specifically the closing section 🙂I
care for such info a lot. I was looking for this certain information for a very long time. Thank you and best of luck.

I believe we need to know where to go. That’s why I bought the iPhone app called Zombie Strong Holds. It has places that
people have uploaded that is the best strong holds to go to if and when it happens. It turns out there are a lot of people
building their own strong holds. Like for example one guy is building an underground bunker that will hold 80 people for
2 years. So if you have an iPhone/iPad or iPod check out Zombie Strong Holds.

Not to be a cynical susan here, but how do you make a list of supplies for a ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, and not chainsaw

….Really? How can you be afraid of something that does NOT exist? It’s just another way for the government to get
people into a panic. Honestly, which would you sooner prepare for? A flood or an apocalypse? Obviously for the one that
will ACTUALLY happen. All of these zombie movies (Resident Evil, Land of the Dead, Night of the Living Dead, ect…) has
put all of these ideas into your heads that gives the idea that there’s going to be an apocalypse? Honestly, this is not
something that has been around as long as REAL emergencies. Natural disasters don’t just pop out of nowhere like this
whole zombie thing did. WHich by the way, a zombie apocalypse should NOT considered a natural disaster. Quit wasting
on your time on something that’s not going to happen. Quit believing everything that the government is telling you, and I
agree with comment #1111, Chainsaw is more likely to happen than a zombie apocalypse. The government needs to
stop wasting money on something that WILL NOT HAPPEN. Do something more productive with your lives.

As “cool” as it may sound, and how fun it is to talk about; there could never be zombies. If you get bit bad enough or get
eaten or whatever your arteries and vains won’t be able to carry blood to the brain making it impossible for function. So
it is physically impossible for zombies to ever exist. (I know… Captain Buzkill) I just wanted to let and kids know who
might get on this website and be worried or afraid of the chance of them. 🙂
Ok, first off, this “Zombie” thing is a ruse that the CDC is using to promote safety in real life situations. It’s not real it’s just
a way for the CDC to communicate to us, the people, while relating to the fantasy world that has taken a huge come back
. . . zombies. It’s a way for the CDC to get us to think in a case of legit danger.

But wait… why did the CDC put something like this up? Just a minute ago I read that the CDC did not believe that zombies
were EVER going to happen. It make angry because my young brothers think the at we are all going to die from zombies.
Do you honestly think that the CDC can save us all and kill the zombies? Noo! By the time they figure this out, and the
zombie attacks will be on the news, it would have already spread on to some other person who got bitten, and went
away because they thought the person who bit them was just some pshyco.
And what if the zombies start somewhere else? We are all screwed. I am terrified, and don’t even believe crap like this.

people should remember that almost everything is possible even zombie apocalypse. All it takes is right kind of virus and
it would cause that to people… But if you really would see zombies walking aroung in streets most people would panic
including me.

Apparently, the stupid haven’t learnt anything in a year since this first appeared. The CDC is not predicting “zombies”, it is
using humour to get people to prepare for disasters, natural and man-made, whether fire, nuclear, drought,
earthquakes or whatever.

Of all the teabagging twits and “There are no zombies!” moron, I doubt any of them have actually prepared for anything.
In all likelihood, those are the morons most like to expect the government or “jeezus” to save them.

Wrong. When there is a disaster, you likely can’t call for help. Those who survived ARE the help – just ask the Japanese
who helped each other immediately after the tsunami. It took hours and days for help to reach some places.

Don’t forget lighters and/or matches!

lol love the zombie makeup :XD

can’t believe you guys are falling for fictional scenarios now…go back and do some VALID research on the phenomenon
of REAL zombification…it’s drug-induced!

I know you need a radio but a Radio and CD player? I suggest adding Michael Jackson’s Thriller CD to the list, the Zombies
may dance for you.

I suggest on that list to add a machete youll need one. for chopping zombies or getting past**********.

Thank God for the Rapture! because thats where I hope and pray to be before all this non-sense starts to happen. I
believe in the grace and mercy and I am covered with the blood of Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. Pray people…..IT
WORKS!

What if you are surprized by a zombie while you are trying to find a “safe” location to stay?

HELP IM IN A ZOMBIE APOCALYPES IN TOTONTO PLEASE HELPVJ

that
was
SCARY!!!!
LoL
oO
when i first saw it it was creepy!!OO
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I don’t need any of this zombie training stuff, if zombies come i’m jumping off a bridge. I know people say they are going
to be survivors but just think of it this way… Whats the point of surviving if there is nothing to live for? Society will be
wrecked and the world will be a living hell.

nice post.

Tonight’s the night!! We’re talking ZOMBIES on tonight’s episode of ‘Night Terrors’! We’re going to discuss the pending
zombie apocalypse as well as the ‘Zombie Survival Dash’, characteristics that make up a zombie and how to prepare
yourself for when they arrive!! We’ll even be taking your questions and comments about zombies via emails and calls, so
start thinking about what you want to discuss!!

if a zombie apocalypse did happen (and i’m guessing it will) i would grab medical supplies, clothes, food and water,
portable radio, my two hand guns, metal bat, surgical mask, extra ammo, back up ammo, and more back up back up
ammo.

my parents would probably freak out and want to go wherever the government is, or they rely on the government for
help! (witch is a horrible idea!!)
i’m also guessing that they would try to lock us all in the house, (another stupid idea!) and they would hope that by doing
so, they could wait for the whole thing to end…..

i don’t want to sound like a bitch or anything, but if the apocalypse really did happen, i would only have one thing on my
mind: “to keep me and my two little brothers safe!”

honestly, my parents would not survive a week in a zombie apocalypse! 😛

but “me”, trust me! i know how to survive out there! i’v been preparing myself ever since i was 10! and i’m now 15 years
old!
plus! i know hand to hand combat! as well as karate, and ti kwan doe! (i’m a 3’d degree black belt in both!)
so, encase i dnt have a weapon, i can really on my martial arts training! :))

is this real…i mean sireously if it is prove it

The CDC is not wasting your money. we live in a world that we have slowly taken over but there are still many things out
there that we don’t think about, zombies are one of the many things we don’t think about. i am grateful of the CDC to
post this because i believe they wouldn’t post this “just for fun” and if they did then that was just a cruel joke. and to add
to this post be aware of zombies because they are unlike any monsters. zombies will come to you, they will find YOU,
with most monsters you have to go to them and hunt for them in their land. and always remember the most dangerous
thing about a zombie is that of the body decomposition if they just died and say they were “re-raised” by a voodoo-er
most people wouldn’t be able to tell if they were just a disoriented person or a zombie.
Am I the only one frightened by the fact that the CDC has this? Is the government cooking up something?

This is an interesting way of getting people to prepare! Honestly I didn’t know about until now and have been preparing
almost my whole life!

No buddy needs to BRAINS sorry about that dont worry abuot zumbies trying to eat your deilicious sweet brains

from the desk of a zombie

Let me know when the ninja’s unite!

Perhaps not so stupid article. Perhaps CDC knows that zombies are possible because CDC (or some friends) are creating
the zombie virus. It is a possibility, please don’t take me to Guantanamo paradise for writing my opinion. Create the
problem and then offer the solution, that is the trick to win the game (like Mr Bush did it in Irak, for example). No doubt:
It is impossible to be more insane that these guys.

um…why would they post something up unless it was possible it could happen? Thier getting ready, so should we. With
technology and science, this could happen very, very, soon.
Fear the living, kill the dead.

#16 is increndibly dense and stupid.

is this really real ?

I mean really is this possible if yes I guess it’s time to prepare for the zombie apocalypse

Did anyone stop to thjnk that the zombies the goverment is refering to could be starving people. Our economy is about
to crash, hyperinflation, dollar devaluation, food shortages, and finally no food are not to for off in the near future.
Finally, social unrest, riots, and starvation that will lead to starving violent people. So get ready and prepare because the
zombies are coming.

It’s the first time when i’ve seen your site. I can understand a lot of hard work has gone in to it. It’s really great.

This is coming from the country that declared pizza a vegetable. lol

Nice waste of my hard earned taxpayer money. You should all be fired for this nonsense.

The zombies are already here and you may be familiar with them. It is the line of blank vacant expressions you see on
your living room couch. It is the line at the grocery store filling their carts with fake food, washing it all down with cheap
beer. It is the line at the movie theater to catch the next zombie movie. It is the takers, and the greed-mongers. It is the
terror broadcasters and doomsayers. Wake up. Live while you still can.
Bring something to the table – quit bitching – wake up.

The zombie apocalypse started this week! In Charlotte, N.C.!

Who knew the first officially sanctioned pictures of zombies would include Billy and D’arcy from the Smashing Pumpkins.

I really can’t believe that you are wasting my tax dollars on this cow feces!!!

Sounds like you’re planning MARTIAL LAW, you worthless feds. So… according to “Homeland Security” we are terrorists
for having a week worth of food or water. Are you trying to make everyone a “terrorist”? What’s up with the mixed
messages? I think this needs to be reported as suspicious activity. DISSENT IS PATRIOTIC

The CDC is using humor to push a point and I agree with the approach.
I write manuals for equipment and I use humor to keep the subject interesting to the reader, such as a allegator lasso in
the spare parts list.
The Zombies will be there but they won’t be dead these will be the people who didn’t use there brain and will be looking
to steal yours which you used to try and survival. Survival is basic to all and you must protect yourself at all cost.
The only thing CDC fails to advise on real true survival, There are 3 thing 1. Life 2. food 3. shelter I’m not sure of the order
but close enough.

Don’t believe the hype, people.

This is just great…just horrbile. Been watching horror movies years ago when I was a child. At that time, I once imagined
what it would be like if we really had zombies around and I went on imaging how I would survive.
And now I’m reading this article in a government-owned website. That’s bad, really bad.

Gosh, such a politically-correct emergency kit for a zombie apocalypse- no mention of bringing along any weapons?

Nice start on the disaster preparedness list. Like so many others, to the naysayers and complainers about the
expenditure involved, this is not about zombies. The CDC says in the article, there “may be” some kind of disease agent,
now or in the future, the effect of which could resemble a zombie. However, this focus of the article is disaster
preparedness.

For anyone wanting a simpler description of disaster preparedness, think extending camping trip. Pretty much the same
list of requirements.

I admit I came to this page looking for “CDC bashing” tools when I saw the “zombie” tag. I changed my mind after reading
the article about disaster preparedness.

My comment to the CDC: I hope using the cultural obsession has brought the message to much wider audience. Thank
you.

What weapons are best for home defense?

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I think some of the people on the website have already had their brains eaten by zombies. As someone already said, this
is intended to be a funny way of getting people to prepare for real emergencies. Maybe I’m in the wrong place; I’m over 8
and my IQ is more than two digits. Don’t be so gullible!!!

WELL MANKIND DOING TO MUCH….I THINK THE CDC WOULD HAVE A LOT TO DO WITH THIS IN A CONSPIRACY….GOD
WILL NOT BE PLEASED….I THINK THAT’S WHEN GOD WILL STEP IN………

This is a BLOG, somebody wrote it on his OWN time. How did he waste taxpayer money if he did this on his free time,
eh?

change zombie x aliens = ok

Thanks for the great post and please be sure to check out this site!

The government knows something! We set out to do a documentary about America in the 21st century. However,all
these government alerts and exercises back up what we already found, that America has become overrun with Zombies.
So for the next year we plan on traveling the country making a documentary series about zombies and zombie culture in
America.

A family wont work well together you guys need friends

Mark Wright

I honestly think you completely missed the point of this web page.

Let me guess, Tea Party member, yes?

I have to say that for the last couple of hours i have been hooked by the impressive articles on this site. Keep up the
great work.

This is really a waste of time.

Are there gonna be zombies, or not? Who knows for certain? Events during the summer definitely had me leaning
towards a potential zombie apocalypse. But will it happen? Who can say? This blog and Preparedness program,
regardless, is informative and will get people thinking seriously about health and safety. Let’s face it, disasters are
happening all the time. Better to be safe than sorry!

Of course, all of this is just to cover-up the fact that the CDC and Illuminati have already started the zombie apocalypse
as part of their secret war with the Masons. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!!!!

Beware still the cdc wont be invincible just remember my words

For those of you who dismiss zombies as not real I have two words for you BATH SALTS! That cannibal guy in Florida had
to be shot like 18 times before he stopped eating that guys face. Bath salt zombies are said to have almost super human
strength, if that junk spread like crack or meth we might really have a problem. Here in L.A. its already starting to look
like the zombie apocalypse or we’re being inundated by pirates but so far that’s probably just a result of this recession.
Regardless its good to be prepared. just sayin!

how to survive the zombie apocalypse is a better instruction manual

you can find it on amazon.

Please tell me you didn’t spend taxpayer money on this…

It’s rare that you see a federal agency do something clever.

Nice marketing, and nice work. Clever way to get people to prepared for disasters. Cheers.

I would add a bottle of distilled spirits. Beyond being a nice way to pass some long and stressful hours, liquor can make a
great anti-bacterial and pain killer.

STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT TAXPAER MONEY SPENT ON THIS

This article probably cost about $25 to produce. $100 if they were excessive. Please tell me how much of that money was
YOUR taxpayer money? One cent? Maybe as much as FIVE cents? My word, such a waste!

In addition this is a great article about preparedness for any situation.

So if all you can do is nitpick about how you nickel that you would probably ignore if you saw it on the floor was spent on
a disaster preparedness article with a little bit of humor in it and a focus on a subculture then perhaps you should move
to a country where there are no disater prepareness articles for you to have to pay for.

the best weapons in case of zed are ones that are easy to find and replace as well as light so frying pans, hardwood 2×4,
sharpened sticks, and good old baseball bats work best if you have fire arms save them in case of the living who are evil

i think the zombie things are real because of the videos i have seen im scared of it and i dont know why nobody believes
it? we should do a practice or school or something just to get prepared search extranormal/ zombies on youtube and it
will scare you to death all the zombie captions they had found.there is even a forest full of zombies in well i forgot but
just watch that video and u will find out

The CDC is talking about “What If” Situations and to prepare for them They are using Zombies as what they perceive as a
light hearted way to imagine some sort of disaster scenario. No where do they actually say The Zombies are coming they
say Get Prepped. Thats all

whatever it takes to get folks motivated to prepair!

I am afraid that some folks are talking and spreading rumors that there is a real zombie appocalypse forthcoming….not a
tongue in cheek scenario. And no one as mentioned it is a campaign by the CDD to make us more prepared for a
disaster.

I see everyone talking about the Zombie out break and saying that this is awsome that the CDC is on this topic. In my
thought it will be a very fun but very bad at the same time. We as a human race will be put to our biggiest challange of all
time, it would be called population control. When the out break accures there will be a country wide panic. The first two
weeks or so would be the main out break, than would follow the survial time. What would be the first reaction of all man
kind as a group when something like this would happen. Let me tell you, it is called Utter Chaos. When this happens the
world as we know it well vanish and never be the same again. The zombie out break can happen in many ways such as
air born, shots, or even a sonic wave to disable brain funcations. To survive this out break you will have to know a couple
things besides a normal med kit and food and water. You will have to learn how to use had to hand combat cause
eventually you will get face to face with a zombie and have to fight. This out break will spread extremly fast no one will
be ready for the speed of it. There are many comments about if they will run, walk or even be scared of water. If you
ever get the chance i say find out and test some ideas that you have but be safe about how you would go about finding
out. My name is Spencer and these are a couple things that I think, if you would like me to make more comments please
let me know. I love the thought of zombies and what will happen.

Ok, first of all, does everyone really think that a goverment agency would make a web page on how to live against
zombies just for our amusement? Really think about it, they are “putting a pretty face on it” so to speak. The CDC is not
going to talk about a virus or disease that they think is “fake”. They know something we dont, while “they” are making a
joke out of this, there is probably something really to worry about. Next thing we know they are going to make videos
showing us how to survive a zombie attack and play it on national TV, just like they use to do during the Cold War, “How
To Survive A Nuclear Attack”. I think its not if the dead will walk, I think it just a matter of when.

The fact that some one would say ” We’re gunna take care of if” is funny. Not funny Ha Ha. The other funny. I’ll trust my
supplies for my family and my BOOM STICK more then passive CDD. Plus look at what’s happening to the earths
magnetic poles plus the galactic plane Earth is going to go through before zombies are thought of as a problem. I would
welcome zombies any day of the week. Hard to shoot space.

I even took put the poster on my college dorm door in order to raise awareness!

This was actually fun to read and that is something, coming from a government agency. I would say this was money well
spent. To the people who did think it was a waste of time and tax-payer money, all I can say is it got your attention, didn’t
it and assuming that you did read it, then the message was effectively delivered. Way to go, CDC!

LOL seriously CDC, this is a joke right ?

I got better plans for flattulens.

Do you even know anything about this ?

SO I guess this is just a joke and you dont really have any plans, since this seems stiched together (badly) from other
sources unrelated aswell from the z.

I heard they just found that the appendix is the Zombie organ. Once removed you become invisible to zombies and if
bitten can’t be turned. So I got that going for me.

this is retared!!!!!

ARE THEY FOR REAL???? dont get me wrong i believe in the zombie apocalypse, but i wasn’t expecting a website like CDC
to post something about it… either way thanks CDC when i’m crushin zombie skulls and surviving i’ll be thanking you
guys. :^)

What if we ourself needs to attact the zombie? we must prepare to attact not only to run…

So is this the LQP-79 virus?

Ok, if anyone on here is serious and actually believe that the Zombie Apocalypse is real, i have to say that I feel sorry for
your lonely, friend-less lives. 2nd I like how this post has a very mock feeling to it. Although I wish that it was not made
because it only reinforces the idiotic idea of a Zombie invasion. The dead cannot come back to life. The dead cannot
walk. Someone posted about Rabies being possible. That is the only way a “zombie” can ever happen. To which that is
already taken care of because there is a cure for rabies, as well as isolation of infected people will utterly kill off infected
rabies carries.

Again, the media and entertainment play off this irrational fear of Zombies and they become rich, filthy rich off the
stupidity of misguided and deluded people. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good zombie movie. The Walking Dead is a
fantastic series. Dawn of the Dead, Zombieland…great movies. But that is where it ends. They are movies, and any
person that cannot understand the difference needs to have all entertainment stripped from their lives, as they are not
mature enough to handle them.

Now as I said this post has a very mock like feel to it…and if that is true then I commend the CDC for their humor that we
all thought was non-existent. However, if I am wrong and the CDC really believes this…then I have to say that I am greatly
disappointed that my tax dollars have been wasted on this ridiculous posting. And I must say that we are truly doomed
as a Country. We are leaders and the people that we look to are as stupid as the typical person….we are truly doomed.
And not because of Zombies….but because of inadequate leaders and idiotic people in power of our safety.

cool!! can you make a Z-Virus? lol XD,cause my dream is killin’ all the zombies XD

I guess its fake until a zombie appears in front of my house and tries to sell cookies!

this is stupid zombies are not real

Not that I am a believer in zombies like in the movies coming back from the dead…however I am now a believer in
people taking bath salts and acting all zombie like…who is to say that are water is safe from terrorist attack? What about
a scenario of bath salts in our drinking water then things would be a disaster if it did. Nothing is out of the realm of
impossbility to me anymore…better off safe than sorry. Being prepared is best!

Dang I know some people are worried about the money being put into this, but we honestly need to start broadening
are outlook on this. I mean look what happened in Maimi. I don’t know about you guys,but I think this really mighy
happen so I think this page helps a whole lot.

so stupid zombies are not real

I don’t know about you guys but I am a huge fan of the series “The Walking Dead”.
After watching this, somewhere in the back of my mind I wonder, “what would i do at a time like that:.
My brother and I talk constantly aobut A Zombie Apocalypse. Sometimes i kinda wish that there were one. Just saying.

Well if it is not a joke dont you think the CDC would know more then you????????????????? I do and look at Voodoo and
look it up.

Please bring back the zombie T-Shirts PPLLLLEEEAASSSSEEEE!!!!! I had no idea there were t-shirts! I want to order 12 now!

im alredy perpared see you all as zombies

this is stupid

To the people that want to knock this blog….get a grip! You are completely missing the point. Although the CDC has put a
modern pop culture twist on this, it is still just basic emergency preparedness. The CDC just mande it fun with the
“Zombie Apocalypse” thing because that is what is popular at this time. Whatever time that was spend on this by the CDC
staff, I am sure was minimal, because all they had to do was take the disater preparedness article, insert “zombie
apocalypse” a few time and viola!

The only ‘zombie invasion’ im worried about it a rob zombie invasion… I’LL BE HERE ALL WEEK FOLKS!! :p

This is awesome. Simply hearing about this page earned the CDC new respect in my eyes. Also, I realized that my home
probably does not have as much water as we should have in case of an emergency, while entertaining my love for
zombies (or rather zombie related things).

its better safe then sorry its just like the pentagon has an aliien invasion scenario its better to have one and not need it
then to need it and not have one

they should give out more info about this because we are talking about the end of the world here

I swear to Dracula I thought of this before Shawn of the Dead: why not just (voodoo) doll yourself up to look like a
zombie and then act like one…..you will totally blend.

the zombie apocalypse invaded Canada’s House of Commons 8 years ago when Stephen Harper became Prime Minister
and destroyed humanity through his corporate tax cuts…..too late to prepare for that one now

Great way to premote preparedness! Just wish we could still get the t-shirts. That is a real bummer.

Bring back the shirts!!! If you make them, they will sell.

I’m with Daisy- PLEASE bring back the shirts!!!

After reading through [too] many comments, it occurred to me that a great many people didn’t get the reason for the
article, despite it being stated up front and plainly. While reading is a prerequisite to being a rocket scientist, it is not, and
never will be rocket science, nor the real and multifaceted studies that go into preventing, mitigating, and managing
pandemics.

Hint #1 is that this was about how to plan for a “real emergency” was the word REAL being italicized in the last sentence
of the first paragraph. I even quoted it.

Hint #2 is when the same phrase, in the second section, is used and real is italicized again.

Hint #3 is all the name dropping of other real emergencies — littering the article like mountains of newspapers in a
hoarders home — for which these planning tips are also useful.
There are other hints if you missed them, please re-read the article.

Zombies don’t come from just voodoo. There is no real cause of it. The Voodoo zombies were originally slaves, and the
owners brought them back in order to have them continue working for them. There are also beliefs that the Voodoo
zombie didn’t even exist. That the slaves where only really malnourished lifeless. So they apeared to be dead. According
to Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide Deck: Compleate Protection From The Living Dead, the zombie that
we know come from a virus called Solanium. It’s not quite known yet just where the desiese comes from or how it
happens, but it will happen. And we have to be prepared…

If this wasn’t such a waste of taxpayer dollars (and Federal employee time) it might be funny.

But seriously, doesn’t Obama know that there are really NO SUCH THINGS as Zombies? They’re fictional movie
creature/characters….

Why is the Federal Government wasting millions on this silliness?

And if they wanted to raise awareness about other disasters, why not RAISE AWARENESS about them???

My tax dollars are paying for this shiite…..

In case of ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE I have found the “double tap” method works great.

I think that weapons of any kind would be more useful. Also a hatchet for cutting wood for building, some cement
mixtures, and also a bugout place to meet with family

Think about it, other countries are reporting “zombie-like” activity. Then OUR government starts talking about zombies.
I think they made a zombie virus. If so we are all screwed. Except for people who take this seriously, like any other
disaster. They posted that for a reason. ZOMBIE TALK+ PREPAREDNESS GUIDELINES= ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE!
DO THE MATH PEOPLE!

why would they tell ya to meet outside how bout keeping some sort of way to meet on your roof of house safe up there
you listen to stuff like that you will be dead

The people who are whinging about wasted taxpayer dollars are missing the fact that 95 %+ of preparations for zombie
apocalypse are useful for natural or man-made disasters, and that this presentation probably increases compliance by
well over 100% — best use of taxpayer $ that I’ve seen in a long time! Bravo, CDC! You’re saving many lives, even if nary a
zombie is ever seen.

Live long and prosper.

if you guys know anything for the zompocilipyes youd hav 2 watch the Walking Dead because youd hav to kill off ur best
friend and/or worse…ur self but just watch it…it helps

can you drown a zombi

I agree with some of the comments. If talking about a zombie attack can get people to prepare for emergency situations,
then good for the CDC to think “outside the box”. We all have to prepare for any kind of emergency that could hit at
anytime. Whether it be medical or a natural disaster. A gun and/or bat would keep away zombies or an intruder trying to
get to you and your family. Everybody needs to plan to take care of themselves, because if a big disaster happens
(Zombies hehe), the government can’t help all of us. In fact, we may need to help our neighbors.

Yea it’s great that the CDC is trying to prepare the population for any kind of mass disaster but seriously, zombies? Why
are they preparing us for an event that revolves around beings from stories? ZOMBIES AREN’T REAL… There is as much
chance of there being a zombie outbreak as a vampire out break or some other ridiculous fictional monster. This article
is honestly just a waste of taxpayer dollars and government time.

It could happen u never know

hm i wonder whats its like to be a zombie.. it doesnt sound to bad, O.o well i do NOT to get eatin alive…im prepared
soo………BRING IT ON!!! XD
While some people are complaining about their tax dollars being wasted on learning hos to survive something that isn’t
real, I feel the point to all this is to get people in their 20s to start thinking about emergency preparedness. If you
mention flood or whatever they aren’t going to be interested. Zombie apocalypse they’ll read and maybe learn
something being prepared for any eventuality.

All things are possible, I think its sad that so many people think this will be a fun thing when it does happen…. it will
happen during the three days of darkness, and will be more devastating than anything mankind has ever seen on earth.
Matthew_24

You all who are complaining about wasted tax dollars will be screwed whenever the loved ones you once knew are
running at you trying to eat your face.

i dont think it would be a good idea to meet up with your family at the mailbox if your house is invaded by zombies
lol,also i recommend to have some sort of weapon that you can attack from a distance like,bat,machete,sword,etc
because the closer you are to a zombie for example if you have a knife to take down a zombie you will be closer to it and
have increased chance to be infected.

Now we can be ready for this Friday. Thank you, CDC!

About time our government took this threat seriously. Considering everything they have their scientists experimenting
with, especially things that should just be left alone, you never know what could happen. Also, although the comment
was made last year, Scott M is somewhat correct. If the Zombie Apocalypse does happen and they are anything like Zack
Snyders zombies, then we better start practicing the Zombieland Survival Rules. CARDIO!!! He did mention however that
we wouldnt have to worry as much if they were anything like the Romero/Brooks zombies, “slow, lumbering zombies”,
and if not for the Romeros remakes of Day of the Dead and Land of the Dead, i would agree with him, but we have to
take into consideration that, although they may be dead, and more likely brain dead, they may still be capable of some
level of intelligence and learning, ie. in Land of the Dead when the “zombies’ leader” figures out how to use a gun and
climb fences. Yes its improbable, but not impossible.

TL/DR – Not being serious, fun way to get people to think about a serious topic.

I think all those that are posting things about tax dollars being wasted, along with those posting things like, you need a
weapon for a zombie apoc. or other things like that, miss the main point of this article. This entire thing was made as a
way of getting people to plan for a disaster. But, my guess is that no one is going to read this, since the last post when I
wrote this was number 1230. I had stopped reading around 200. Mainly because for every good post about the CDC
having come up with a very clever way of getting more and more people to think about having a disaster preparedness
kit ready, there are ten either bashing the CDC for waisting their tax dollars on a ZOMBIE scenario guide, or those saying
that they forgot to include weapons. People, understand that this is a way of spinning the normally dry, stale topic of
disaster preparation in a way that many people will find funny. I didn’t even know that this had been made until I saw it
on XBOX Live Dec 20, 2012 around 2300 Eastern. This was a brilliant idea for the CDC, and I’m glad that someone at the
agency saw that this might be a great way of getting people to think about disaster planning. It’s just a shame that so
many people think they were being serious when they said Zombie planning. Thank you, and Good Morn/Day/Eve,
whenever you read this.

I really hope for a zombie apocalypse(I am 11), so I can show my family that I can beat the crap out of those zombies.
CDC-You get a ******* 7 star out of 10(Don’t let staff leave or be sucidal if it happens like on the walking dead)
New Resident Evil movie gets 8 out of 10 mabye 7.5 out of 10

I don’t even understand how I finished up here, but I assumed this submit used to be great. I don’t realize who you are
but certainly you’re going to a famous blogger if you are not already. Cheers!

max, about your post, number 1225 on November 19, 2012 at 8:16pm ET
you say Zombies aren’t real, well at the moment there not but it is possible that it could happen and you say a Zombie
outbreak is about as likely as a Vampire outbreak, but the thing is years ago (and i mean YEARS AGO) there was such
thing as Vampires. I’m not just suggesting that a Zombie out brake could happen, I’m saying it REALLY could happen, I
don’t know much about it but sometime between 1870 and 1890, (I can remember the exact date but it was definitely
between those dates) there was a minor Zombie Outbreak in London. I don’t know how the sorted it out or got the
Zombies away but I am 100% certain that the Outbreak DID happen. Soo yeah, that’s all I have to say 😉
Best money the government ever spent. At least you guys came up with an out of the box idea to get people to prepare
for hurricanes, floods, storms and power outages, whatever. Glad to see someone actually has 1) a sense of humor and
2) the imagination to press an important issue. I commend you for your efforts.
I just read a comment praising the CDC for thinking outside of the box and preparing people but, the people need to
think outside of the box. Sounds to me the government is working with something that could possibly one day be used
to spread a zombie virus… CDC has a section that explains what to do during other disasters why would they add this
without proper reason? Think about it, the military was doing exercises using people dressed and acting like zombies
recently. Always ask questions, do not believe everything they tell you, we as people have given too much authority to
the government in the name of safety… Just my thought, have a wonderful day! 🙂
Honestly I want there to be a zombie apocalypse because then there would be no cause to truly have to do anything.

can someone tell me what is the best place to build a base? i have designs of a human survival colony just in case the
zombie apocalypse happens. buts in going to be built at the border of Colorado. and i live in Kentucky. well maybe i can
move the colony a little closer to Kentucky. and it took my family 3 days to get from Montana to Kentucky.

Well i know how to survive in a zombie apocalypse. you need doctors, soldiers (preferably armed civilians), a radio, tons
of fresh food and water, medical supplies, a place for a base (i have a design for a colony. just in case this happens),
some sort of transportation (walking is suicidal! you need a car to make a quick get away from zeds), leaders, farmers,
local police, fire extinguishers (just in case there is a fire at your base), weapons, ammunition, a map of the surrounding
areas (you need to get to know your surroundings with a map.), don’t forget you need to barricade your base. fences
with barbed wire will do. but a brick or concrete wall will do. but build it fast!!!

There are different ways to prevent a zombie getting you. Zombies relies on smell, hearing, and
movement, they hardly see well they move fast here are some steps to help you during the apocalypse
Step 1: camouflage smell of body
Step 2:bring a backpack with ammo, pistols, food, water.
Step 3: keep silent ,move slowly to a close by car (semi truck, or pick up truck)
Step 4: find a close by police station go to swat team wing and get riot Shields , high grade shotguns, sniper rifles, assault
rifles and get in a swat team armored truck.
step 5: is plan to go to a nuclear shelter.
Step 6: find a ham radio or a radio for a emergency broadcast
Step 7: take shifts around bedtime,wakeup at 7:30 am take 2 or 3 hour shifts

i am a big fan of zombie stuff and i have a kit packed. I have 4 people in my family and all of us are prepared. i love
zomibes.

I am so so not perpard I am only a kid and all I have is a pocketknife,a gallon of water, close and a jurnoil. I believe in a
zombie attack but i need to get perpard.

I have been surfing online more than 3 hours lately, but I never found any attention-grabbing article like yours. It’s pretty
worth sufficient for me. Personally, if all site owners and bloggers made excellent content as you probably did, the web
will likely be much more useful than ever before.

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round for this information, you could help them greatly.

There is a saying, if it quacks like a duck, chances are it’s a duck… and sometimes the truth lies in plain site.

soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo creapy

Horror movies like Zombies are very interesting to watch, yet sometimes the movie becomes so exaggerated and
zombies become cannibals and eat people’s flesh.

The CDC is a national treasure- a sense of humor while focused on saving lives. Thanks for doing what you do- you’re
heroes to us all!

Wow, so the CDC just dropped a few notches in my book. So much for credibility.

I think some of these people been playing too many video games and watching too much TV, get a grip.

Just wanted to share that Kings Mountain Historical Museum (in Kings Mountain, NC) hosted a free public program this
week based on the CDC’s model – in conjunction with our current exhibit: “Say Ahh! The Incredible Medical History of
Kings Mountain,” and in partnership with our local library’s Summer Reading Program. We talked about the real-life
historical pandemics that contributed to the zombie culture, and had a retired fire fighter talk to visitors about how
prepping for a zombie apocalypse can help their families be prepared for more likely disasters like severe weather,
epidemics, fires, earthquakes, and terrorist attacks. Participants surprised us by coming dressed as zombies! Thanks CDC
for helping us reach a younger audience and serve our community.

Dear CDC,

After reading this blog post, and the subsequent plethora of halfway sane sounding citizens going on about movie
monsters coming to life and attacking the planet, perhaps you should make an emergency preparedness plan for such
evils as Frankenstein’s monster, Dracula, and the Wolfman. I think you have a few crazies left feeling a little foolish,
perhaps a bit chagrined, that such government entities have given their deepest fears no true creedence. I beg of you,
please create emergency preparedness drills for vampiric bat attacks, mad rampaging monsters that fear fire, and long
dead Egyptian corpses that might shamble into your bathroom and become mistaken for toilet paper. Perhaps someone
out there will thank you for taking their fears seriously, and, oh, I don’t know – create an emergency preparedness kit
that will work just as well for a power outage as it will for a long dark evening fighting against the Transylvania Terror?
Because quite honestly, I’d actually love to read some of the posts written about it. The ones complaining that you just
educated someone how to survive a flood by using zombies or other supernatural monsters would be up in arms.
Because how dare you, oh great, grand, and glorious CDC, educate the populous using pop culture mythos or
nontraditional means. For shame. You might have just saved a couple thousand lives in the long run, but how dare you
do it without first boring us to tears and rapping a stick against the desk a few dozen times to keep us from nodding off.
Shame shame shame. B-)

I love zombie movies and this was one hell of a funny article mate 😀 Cheers! Yuno
Add gun/bb gun/ sword/ bat to list. THX

What ever it is and where ever you go take a backpacking tent with you !!

honestly i sleep with a 44 magnum strapped to my leg and a glock in my bedside table so if anyone or anything comes
near me they aint getting away alive

A good emergency plan under the guise of a zombie plan, but as a zombie plan, it SUCKS!!! NO weapons? Add a rifel w/
ammo, a machete or axe. Dumb zombie plan.

To the people who say stop wasting my tax dollars, you are clearly missing the point. The job of the CDC amongst other
things is to reach the widest audience about preparedness and in creating a clever and humorous campaign more
people will prepare for emergencies and more lives will be saved.

Thanks, CDC! You protect us from imaginary zombie attacks, but you drop the ball when it comes to preparing airports
and hospitals in a timely manner to handle Ebola.

A little tip: no matter what you read or see on youtube, never use a shotgun. If you’ve played The Walking Dead, you
would know why. They dont kill unless you’re at point-blank and point it at the back of his head. Use an AK-47 and a
sniper, .223 or.308.

GO CDC!!! YEAH! Who’s played COD-BO2? CDC is bada55!

Just remember…Rule #1: Cardio

this is a good idea because if your prepared for the zombie apocalypse your prepared for tornados terrorist attacks
chemicall attacks and radiation leak or contanimation

For those who worry about your tax dollars– blame Congress not the CDC. I am sure that Congress tasked the CDC to
put out information on emergency preparedness and funded the effort. Congratulations to the CDC for a very effective
public service campaign! Very good information!

This would have been great if you hadn’t have utterly screwed the pooch with supercilious arrogant statements with no
basis. CDC leadership has embarrassed us all by asserting that the center would ‘Stop Ebola in its tracks’ before accusing
a heroic nurse for having ‘breached protocol’ (as if a minor protocol breach would really result in an infection), and then
giving permission to a febrile Ebola nurse to catch a flight because her oral temperature was not yet at the rectal
(arbitrary) threshold for fever. If an average doctor or company made these breaches, they would be sued and tried for
criminal negligence.

The CDC leadership should resign in shame. How dare you pretend to be our competent line of defense.
You are a waste of money, a waste of space and your arrogance is a danger to our society.

SHAME SHAME SHAME

A kitana sword like the one used by Michonne would also be a tactical weapon that does not require ammunition. I
almost bought one at Texas Comic Con and those suckers are sharper than most kitchen knives.

Why do so many of you not see the point? This is not a waste of money, it is getting the message out using a popular
social standard for today, maybe you would prefer readiness framed in prepping for urban bombing of WWII?

Zombies are just an accepted “catch all” rather than a section on surviving a pandemic, another on a super volcano
outbreak, another on extinction level space object impacts, another on financial collapse… If you prep for a zombie
outbreak, you are ready for just about any disaster you can think of. That is all it is, prep for the worst and your are ready
for the rest and done in a manner popular right now. How is that a waste of money?

When survivalists groups are formed will politics play a huge role in determining who they let *in* or *out? The reason
why because I lean independent seeing thru the corruption of both political parties being backed by the bankster cartel.

In other words I am too poor to be Republican but too rich to be a Liberal.

I have a bugout bag ready for the zombie apocalypse or anything else. I also have a tactical belt.

Stupidest thing ever…. Even though the probability of something like this happening is zero to none, all of this stuff
would not help you survive. Like how you not sen a zombie movie before?

Such a very useful article. Very interesting to read this article.I would like to thank you for the efforts you had made for
writing this awesome article.

To people who say stop wasting my tax dollars, you’re clearly missing the main reason. The task within the CDC among
other hobbies should be to achieve the greatest audience about readiness too just like developing a clever and
humorous campaign growing amounts of individuals will get ready for problems and even more lives will most likely be
saved.

nice

To be honest, the items you are suggesting is only half the kit you REALLY need. In the event you become ill such as an
infected cut or injury not incurred from a zombie bite, you’ll need some antibiotics of some type. You’ll also want to add
some pain medications to the first aid portion of your kit. During a “Zombie Apocalypse”, you’ll need to be armed.
Someone mentioned an aluminum baseball bat. Big knives are another type of reusable weapon. My daughter has the
gist of it: a good crossbow with as many crossbow bolts as you can manage. (Thinking in the manner of reusable
ammunition.) A set of razor sharp samuri swords, axes, tomahawks. But a smart, responsible person also knows the
value of a firearm in said “Zombie Apocalypse”.
So on that note, a legal sidearm with perhaps a box or two of spare ammunition should be added to your kit as well.
Then you want to make sure you have plenty of protein goods in your kit as well. It may be longer than 72 hours in any
emergency situation. Water, some type of protein bars, and stuff that won’t spoil in storage. Always put some cash in a
ziplock bag and put that in your kit as well. If something happens to the electric grids and there’s no electricity to run the
lights, computers, or the country’s defense you’ll have to rely on cash to purchase needed items. In the case of a “Zombie
Apocalypse”, cash money would be useless.
Have a prepaid cell phone in an actual emergency in your kit. The rescue units can trace a cell signal and come to your
aid. During a zombie outbreak, you may have service to an extent but it won’t last long.
Make sure your vehicle is gassed and ready to go. If you know your area, you can get to safety several ways. Most people
are going to take the main streets and interstates to try and get out of the city or they’ll rush to the nearest military bases
for help. All and good, but even those facilities will be overrun and filled to capacity rather quickly.
The best places to be are outside the cities. With so many people in the cities, there will be panic and chaos. Map out an
escape route that keeps you off the beaten paths. Side streets, alley ways, and sometimes through a field, or park.
Once outside the city, if you have somewhere to go, such as friends or family in a small unaffected town, you would be
safe. During a zombie outbreak, you’d want to get out of the city because of all the people who could become infected
and just like in the movies, there could be millions of the walking dead in just days.
And outside of town, you’d see them coming and could deal with them appropriately.

Nice!It helps me to prepare my emergency kit!But…Is this a joke?

I love zombies

If i were in a zombie apocalypse i would grab a machine gun and I would say “time to die.”until they are all dead and I
would say again and stay dead.”

the ppl on here bashing this, saying its a waste of tax payer money, stop posting stuipid stuff like this need to lighten up.
if they were just posting on what to do AGAINST zombies, i could say, ok you have a point. but they are not. they are
talking about EMERGENCY situations (ie: hurricane, flood ect.) overall. they are giving tips for all situations. get off your
damn high horse and grow up. they are making it fun to read and plan for emergencies. kids or teens will read this, and
automatically love it bc its about zombies, but they are actually learning survival at the same time, without realizing it. get
over yourselves and let ppl have fun.

nice job!
we’re doing this at school in our gifted class!

In my family the basic essentials include toilet paper and hand wipes….LOL Thank you for the helpful information : )

We just had a 7.1 earthquake in Alaska, scary stuff but I knew that my Zombie Preparedness backpack would get us
through! Thanks, CDC!

Remember!!! Double Tap!! (see the movie Zombieland for reference. Woody Harrelson is great!)

This is nothing but plain old stupid. The only way that this would actually occur is if the government intentionally has the
CDC doing research for their own use and are keeping it top secret from their own citizens. One day the government will
regret keeping all their dirty secret from their own people, and the government will be the first to die before the rest of
its country. And I won’t be surprised

The zombies would be easier to kill than you think…

Also if they 28 Weeks Later then I’m outta here. Because the zombies running wasn’t enough.
And, in case of Resident Evil, destroy head or burn them and also avoid Jill’s Sandwiches…
Would be easier to make baited traps or make barbwire fences, just saying.

It shall be a Zika Zombie Baby Paradise. Why don’t you go vote on that you hand kissing baby shakers. Next time they
should let the Killstone whack this Eight-Ball planet. Zippity doo duh……

Brainnnnsssssssss…….uuurrrrrgggghhhhhhhhhh……..delicious sweet brrrrraaaaaiiiinnnnnnnns…….

I think it’s pretty cool to see the CDC doing something like this, especially reassuring that if this ever DID happen for
whatever reason, they would respond and treat the same as any other disease outbreak (to an extent). It’s reassuring
that if it ever did occur, we at the least wouldn’t have to deal with the CDC sitting on their butts denying the possibility,
just because the idea stemmed from a mix of movies and twists on legitimate cultural events. Sure, the ideas originated
in entertainment, but as long as the idea holds a conclusive likelihood of occurring and a base in science, there is no
reason why the chance couldn’t be taken seriously. It’s the same reason we prepare emergency kits. Even if we live in the
safest, unlikeliest place to be hit by a natural disaster, there is nothing wrong with being prepared.

I for one will be preparing my magazines and duct tape armor 😉

This is a great approach to the topic of preparedness. Way to be tuned in to the trends and use that to get some great
information out! Anyone who thinks this was a “waste of tax dollars” is ridiculous and would likely complain about any
approach taken to write an article about the subject because it came from the government. This was a welcome change
from the normal government message, the “tax dollars” were still “spent” at the same rate regardless of how the article
was written. Thanks!

I read this several years ago and came back for a lark and see that nothing has changed. Not the page, but rather the
rightwing fanatics still whining and political gainsaying about “government waste”, and the ignorant acting as if this really
were about zombies.

How much did it cost to produce this page? A few hours of work and buying some stock photos, probably a few hundred
dollars in total.
How much conversation has this page generated about PREPARING FOR DISASTERS – fires, floods, earthquakes,
tornadoes, hurricanes, etc.? A ***massive*** amount of response and word of mouth. In terms of “bang for your buck”
and getting the message out, this thing has been a massive success.

Like four year old zombies, it’s beginning to rot and will eventually collapse, but while it was around it managed to
spread pretty far.

Crowbar best weapon, never needs reloading, doesn’t break, can open doors and unlock doors and even keep doors
shut and anyone can use it, no formal training needed, just swing away!

What if people in CDC gets infected?

I would not be surprised if that Zika Virus leads to some sort of rabies virus leading into eventual zombie-like symptoms.

Even if zombies were to happen they wouldn’t last vary long. There are way to many things going against them like;
freezing cold, blistering heat, and so many others.

I want it to happen
I demand it to happen (walking dead “tv show” type zombies though)

Nice Post!

I can’t tell if the CDC is playing a joke on us or actually being serious. I guess “zombie prepareness” also falls under the
spectrum of containing serious urban unrest. Maybe I’m just a pessimist.

Shared your article here at http://www.zombiegeardude.com. I think my readers will enjoy this “official” statement by the
CDC. Cheers

I’ll make sure to keep myself prepared for the apocalypse. The information just given to me will be perfect for future
causes. Thanks for the tip! 😀
I don’t think that we should even have a website for this. This is STUPID!!!!!!!!!!! There are No zombies. News Flash!!!
Zombies are not real. We shouldn’t use our tax payers money to this DUMB website. Zombies are
fictional!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! VERY UPSET THAT THE GOVERNMENT WOULD MAKE THIS WEBSITE!!!!!!!! IT IS VERY
STUPID!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This site isn’t stupid you all are, the point of it is not to provide information on zombies. All the information and
suggestions they provide are general and apply to all emergencies and disasters. FEMA posts the same stuff none of you
care about it because its not about zombies. You all just proved their point for doing this.

It’s great to post there that know how to make zombie

Hi Ali, Nice article thanks for sharing.

nice to see how many people are actually in to the zombie apocalypse stuff.
i’m coming out with a book soon you guys should read it okay see ya

Great article, it is necessary for all

For all those who think this is a waste of time or a joke I ask you to take a look at some of the diseases and outbreaks we
have these days. Then you have people eating flesh due to drugs and mental disease. So how in the world can you sit
there and know whether this will or can even happen. They said “that will never happen” about a ton of things and those
people are wrong now. Just saying being open to possibilities and never ruling things out that seem out of this world is a
good approach.

I am sorry to say, two universal axioms are true for this topic: “You are falling on deaf ears” OR “You are singing to the
choir”.Ether you know or you don’t care there is no middle ground.
Very nice try though, Zombie lovers or Zombie haters, prepers are prepers. (we are the chior,by the way)

Being prepared is always a good idea. And if it doesn’t happen, guess we have extra food, extra clothes, extra metal bats,
awesome guns, and bows and medical kits. I don’t think it is such a bad idea. So we teach our children to watch the
world, and to help others, and to safe their lives, if any disaster happens. We are going to be ready for earthquakes to
zombies.

Thanks for informative article to share with us

I want people to be aware that I recommend wearing protection from bodily fluids. If a zombie virus was transferred
through bodily fluids would it make any sense to smack a zombie with a bat and get blood all over yourself. If I were
forced to engage in close-quarters combat I would at least have some sort of eye protection with long sleeves. We have
all been taught that viruses can get in your body via your eyes,nose,mouth, and cuts. Which is why we should wash our
hands before touching our face. I only wish for people to remember that you have to think solutions through. Prolonged
close-quarters combat would tire you out considerably fast that is not to mention that approximately 80% of Americans
do not get their recommended exercise. Running and killing zombies all day is going to put a toll on your body. Just a few
things to think about.
From Israel 😉
Is this real like will it happen sometime

For all of those complaining about the CDC believing this nonsense and wasting tax dollars…please learn the term
“tongue and cheek”. It’s not real. It’s a creative way to get people thinking about emergency preparedness. If this gets
people attentive and making preparations for real emergencies then I’d say it’s tax dollars put to good use.

It is pretty funny how they turned a fictional zombie apocalypse scenario into a preparation guide for actual possible
disasters. Who knows, maybe if one does happen then the plan they listed will work perfect.

This article is great and very helpful. I never realized all the things that go into being prepared for any disaster. This
article really will help me in the future! 🙂
After reading this, and taking notes I feel super prepared for any kind of emergency!!

My pack:
Water
Life Straw
Fire Starter
Portable blanket
Machete
Shotgun/ rifle /pistol
3 packs of ammo
lock pics
fire axes
scalpel
pain killers
Aspirin
bandages
FOOD
and a HUGE camping bag
Make sure you have certain people and know how to operate a gun. Mind you your life is more worth it than some
aspirin.
I wish you best of luck.

We’re doing this at school, and it’s super interesting!

Others were concerned about taxpayer money being used for the CDC’s budget; the CDC assured the public there was
no additional cost for their zombie apocalypse blog post.

I read this about 18 months ago because I heard the CDC had a Zombie Apocalypse Preparedness guide. It’s purpose
was effective, I now have a well stocked “bug-out” bag/kit as well as “bug-in” supplies.

While others may think I’ve lost my mind (or paranoid) for getting prepared, I’ll be the one laughing last because I’ll be
ready for natural disaster as a few steps ahead in case of other crisis. Proof being, I ask what they (“the others”) will do
when another blizzard hits, or a hurricane moves up the Chesapeake Bay and shuts down the water, power and food
supply chains? Answer – first a blank stare as they try to imagine it, then “can I come to your place?”

Learned it back in the 70’s while in scouting – Be Prepared. It makes sense.

Great post thanks!!

I would suggest including a paper map or laminated paper map to help identify locations for medical, supply, shelter,
and evacuation sites in your area along with your supplies. Additionally, recommend durable shoes and cut resistant
gloves to move through potential debris from storms/ earthquake/ etc. which may be sharp and hazardous.

Way cool! Some extremely valid things! I value you publishing this article and also the rest of the site is also very good.

THX

I love zombies! Cool!

Kudos…way to keep people interested!

What about a zombie situation reguarding something like The Green Flu from the Left 4 Dead series? To me, it seems
more realistic. I mean.. c’mon!

Actually; the scenario in Left 4 Dead (an epic game by Valve & CO) seems more realistic than any other “virus” outbreak.
And with modern science, we COULD engineer the Green Flu (which is rabies-flu hybrid; spreads like the flu, attacks like
rabies). Mind you, the “zombies” in L4D aren’t actually DEAD; they’re still alive, but running on primitive/wild animal
instincts, reasoning skills, etc. Given to the wrong people…. we’d have a mix of Resident Evil AND Left 4 Dead! I’m SO glad
I’m in a tornado/hurricane prone state! More natural defenses and cleanin’ up teams LOL!

The most realistic way a zombie apocalypse could happen is through a rabies like disease(like in “World War Z”). And if
that happened lets face it no one’s gonna be prepared for it, but the only thing that you could prepare for is lost of
sentimental things and your loved ones. And if something like that does happen the military will try to fight but more
than likely lose, all high up government agency leaders will hide out, and the CDC will try to find a cure but more than
likely when they bring in a test subject with the disease to test the “cure” someone will mess up and the patient will get
lose biting the nearest human turning them. And the major things to remember is 1 no one’s coming for you,2 no place
will be safe,3 there’ll more than likely be no cure,4 don’t trust anyone except family,5 be smart,6 learn how to survive,7
prepare to lose,8 only remember your past life to keep your humanity and remember the things you’ve lost, 9 stay
healthy,10 don’t be afraid of anything that’ll keep you back and probably get you killed. Now I know this sounds nuts but
it’ll probably help a lot. See a lot of TV shows and movies portray zombies in different ways either slow, fast, strong,
weak, but the one thing they have in common are the things I’ve listed.

Do U make available hard copies. I wanted a few copies (booklets) of Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse.
Is any of your information available in printed form?
Can I buy copies of your material or is only available thru file formats?

Great write-up, I’m regular visitor of one’s website, maintain up the excellent operate, and It is going to be a regular
visitor for a lengthy time.

wow, I love this, it is wonderful to know what to do if zombies happen.

good advice for most likely to occur events. Zombies will be a whole new set of rules….;)

We’re getting prepared for a 2017 Solar Eclipse trip (which we’re afraid could end up like the Zombie Apocalypse) so we
really appreciate the preparation tips!

Make sure you have a can opener if you have anything in cans. If your food is freeze dried extra water to rehydrate that.
Also some pots and pans and soap. And a gas powered stove, matches, and extra gas. Plus coffee and/or coco and extra
cups. After the Northridge quake I made coffee and coco for everyone on my stove. You don’t know how much that
helped people. And plastic trash bags and TP. You can poo in the trashbags if you really need to.

I hope it happens it seems fun but scary abd im already prepared

i am fully prepared for a zombie apoclyse and a bunker would be nice or a tree house to and the worst place to go to is
the hospital because it could get over run with zombie’s and gun is 2nd 1st is food and water

this is so lame

ThIs Is So LaMe

what?

Zombies arent real,they never will be,so why prepare for something that is never going to happen
Does anyone have any link or something that shows the statistics for how fast/likely a zombie apocalypse is.

This Website is really cool, and funny. I’m doing a project on this to see if this website for the zombie apocalypse is a
hoax or not.

My English teacher assigned us a “survival project” and this was the most reliable source she gave us….

I enjoyed reading the graphic novel: Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic because it was short (36 pages), a bit
humorous and offered easy-to-follow tips to prepare for a, well, zombie apocalypse. I know you didn’t exactly mean a
zombie invasion, but you used a zombie apocalypse metaphorically to represent any catastrophic event. I appreciated
the metaphorical intent of the CDC. Reading some of the other posts, I see that the metaphor didn’t carry over to some
people. You were smart to address an idea with high importance that few people think about via pop culture
phenomenon: zombies! I wonder how many people started a preparedness kit (not for a zombie apocalypse, but one
that could happen) because of your humorous and topical graphic novel? Me, for one. I remember an episode of “The
Twilight Zone” called “The Shelter” where one man in the neighborhood is preparing for nuclear war by building a bomb
shelter in his basement and stockpiling it with food, while his neighbors poke fun at his fear. When the neighbors are
warned of a bomb headed their way, they beg to be let in. When he refuses saying that there isn’t enough either supplies
or water, his “friends” use a battering ram to break into his once-secure shelter. Turns out that the warning is a mistake,
but the damage is done to both the shelter and their friendships. I won’t be building a shelter anytime soon, but I do
have an all-hazards emergency kit. What are the odds that my neighbors have done the same?

This is awesome. Especially since the threat of nuclear war with other nations is becoming much more impending. I’m
glad that government agencies have taken the time to help us, as a people, better understand how to react to a
catastrophe. Thank you, CDC.

It’s Funny how my parents don’t believe me when I said it can happen, So I take it upon myself and prepare..I pretty Cool
because I would know what to do whe;the apocalypse come.?

Don’t forget the freeze dried water. It’s a lot lighter than liquid water and stays potable indefinitely.

Feed thy neighbor. To zombies as distraction.

for everyone saying this is a waste of time and/or money yu need to think if you are prepared for a zombie apocalypse
you are prepared for anything

thought the virus of a zombie came from the goul in the 7th century

A zombie apocalypse is highly unlikely, but a lot of people have forgotten that if it did happen, other humans would be
just as dangerous as zombies, and have just assumed that they would be able to trust anyone. Also, people forget that
there would probably be some build up to an apocalypse so shops would have been emptied beforehand and raiding
buildings would be impossible. Your best bet is probably to find a hiding place (away from any cities) before the
apocalypse happens and go straight there with only things to obtain food, water and make fire, make shelter and defend
yourself.
However, if zombies don’t need brains to survive and have no functioning organs, then theoretically, it should be
impossible to kill them, especially if they are already ‘dead’. There are chances that an apocalypse could happen, and in
certain areas there are frequent natural disasters, so it is worth putting together a survival kit, but assuming that
zombies are definitely going to take over the earth is just a waste of time.

A zombie apocalypse is highly unlikely to happen, and the fictional virus that causes it doesn’t actually create zombies. By
definition, zombies are reanimated corpses. In all the media about them, they are people who have been infected by a
virus that gives them qualities of zombies. This doesn’t make them zombies. I would like to know how exactly this is
going to start. If it’s going to be by virus, then how will any virus evolve to this level? And also, what’s to guarantee that
there won’t be a cure readily available? Or immune people? This virus might not cause an apocalypse.

I understand that there are frequent natural disasters in some areas, so it is worth preparing for things like that, but you
shouldn’t waste your life on preparing for something that is so unlikely to happen.

These is sooooo FAKE BRO

Glad to read this article, an useful information and historical story. Thank you for the post and great job!

I do not need anything but when the time come ( Zombie Apocalypse). I’m gonna be called Zombie Slayer. Which is the
zombie killer.
^THIS

I like there kit and the comment about the bat but I suggest having a bike and trailer as well as the bat and first aid kit on
there blog, i also recommend you only take what you need and take from stores only if stores are required

I think this post is very accurate. I think it is especially smart to have a first aid kit.

The story is entertaining and also provides educational ways to be prepared for not only a natural disaster, but a zombie
apocalypse as well, for those who believe. “We can’t just shoot them these are our fellow citizens” is a comical, but yet
powerful quote used within the story. In “28 Weeks Later” the military is completely against everyone in society, they
even shoot the uninfected. If a natural disaster were to occur though, we need to have the same form of mind the
characters held within the reading. We must come together in the hard times, not turn against each other and see who
can survive. Maybe not all of our acquaintances believe in the power of zombies taking over, but a natural disaster is
bound to occur at some point in your lives. Encourage your neighbors to be prepared for tragic events, which are not
just for an apocalypse, but a natural disaster as well. If everyone surrounding you is prepared for an event like this,
everyone can stick together, not turn against each other to steal their supplies. Overall the comic provides strong ideas if
a natural disaster were to occur, and is educational for the zombie believers in society.

Don’t forget non-electronic reading material!

Although some criticize the CDC for wasting taxpayer money by making this graphic novel about preparedness during
the zombie apocalypse, it is a clever way to make being prepared for a crisis more palatable to the public. The
recommendations that they make in the graphic novel such as having water, food and a radio prepared, which would be
useful in an emergency. If citizens find themselves snowed in, without power for a long period of time, in a hurricane or
tornado, or any other unforeseeable disaster, they will be thankful that they have their CDC approved “zombie” survival
kit handy. In the graphic novel, all of the tools that the main character packs end up being useful. The CDC is illustrating
that because you never know what will happen, it is best to be prepared with some necessities. They are offering advice
for Americans in a fun way to increase the number of people that are actually prepared for an unforeseen circumstance,
and I think that is a noble cause. If it were truly just for zombie outbreaks, surely, they would have recommended all
sorts of silly homemade weaponry to defend one’s self. There are plenty of useless things that the Federal Agencies of
the government do that waste our money and warrant criticism; however, this is not one of them.

I really enjoyed the CDC’s fictional comic about what would happen during the worst disaster imaginable: a zombie
apocalypse. I also found the article, “Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse,” rather interesting and even useful for a
variety of multiple and, well, more realistic scenarios that could always occur unexpectedly. I know that many people are
probably thinking, ‘what a waste of time, it’s not like a zombie outbreak could ever actually happen,’ but regardless,
Preparedness 101 is still relevant to everyone and worth a read. People take things too seriously. Obviously, a zombie
infestation isn’t going to happen, but Preparedness 101 is still relevant and contains useful ways to prepare for other
disasters such as earthquakes, floods, power outages, famines, etc.; the ways to prepare for a “zombie apocalypse” are
the same useful and crucial steps you need to take for any disaster. Natural disasters like the ones I mentioned above
are occur frequently, especially nowadays, and people need to be educated on the ways we can prepare for them to
keep ourselves, and our families safe. That’s what this zombie orientated article, as well as the comic, is about. With the
continuously growing zombie pop culture, the CDC utilized zombies to create a fun and interesting way to make people
aware of the real disasters that occur in our modern world, and through Preparedness 101, they were able to
accomplish just that. Thank you, CDC, I can now run along to my family and spread the message of how to prepare for
the apocalypse.

Reading the graphic novel: Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic was really humorous. Gives someone a better insight
that all things are possible; in the graphic novel his girlfriend came down the stairs and stated, “you said things like this
only happen in movies”, things like a natural disaster happens every day in a new place each day. There are plenty of
people who actually think the same way me being included, that they are invincible to natural disasters, or have not
been exposed to a natural disaster to know how to properly prepare for one. The CDC does a great job explaining how
to prepare for these types of situations through a zombie outbreak, a great way to get the readers attention. Also, in the
graphic novel there’s a scenario that explains the consequences of not being properly prepared., you could run out of
resources. You never know how long you would be in that kind of predicament, so it is always nice to be over prepared
when encountering these kinds of situations, better safe than sorry. After reading this I would definitely prepare an
emergency kit, because I am definitely one of those people who would not think anything could happen to me.

I really took great pleasure in reading the CDC’s comic about a zombie apocalypse. The CDC takes a different approach
to help inform those of a potential catastrophe and used comedic relief to be not only entertaining but also educational.
It was a very interesting read considering it involves rather serious situations. Rather than taking a boring and
uninteresting approach and just writing what to do, the CDC tries to relate to the reader and takes the extra time to get
their point across. Even though a zombie apocalypse is highly unlikely, the reader can take more away for other drastic
events like floods, power outages, etc. and the reader will know how to be prepared in these situations. The article
“Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse”, gives great info to the reader on how to be prepared like giving them a list of
necessities that should be put together in case of an emergency. Th article also provides a visual for those who may
perceive information better that way. Overall the article was very informative and intriguing. I would recommend this
article to all my family and friends. I hope that this article will be spread to all to inform them.

Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic seems to be stirring a lot of controversy within the comments of the tax payers.
Unlike many of them, I think that this graphic novel is the perfect way to engage the masses through popular culture.
With zombies being all the rage, speculating about a zombie apocalypse is a great way to show the effectiveness of
preparedness to the extreme. You identify what should be in an emergency kit and teach us how to be prepared for any
disaster, no matter how unlikely it seems. I am reminded of Orson Welles “The War of the Worlds” radio broadcast in
which he tells the story of an alien invasion. The broadcast was so real that many people believed him and began to
panic because of the already growing fear of WWII. Just as the characters of the graphic novel did not know what the
truth was and trusted the media to tell them what to do, the people listening in 1938 trusted Welles to tell the truth and
assumed that there was no dramatization occurring. The listener was unknowingly put in a position to prepare for a
science fiction fueled cataclysmic event, that never happened. Like the CDC graphic novel, the audience in this case is in
the same position in which they are misinformed for a greater cause, to be prepared for anything.

The fictional piece the Center for Disease Control (CDC) released was very informative and easy to read. I too am very
afraid of most scary movies but always thought them as such; just scary movies. This kind of changed my perspective. I
feel very uneasy if there were a serious emergency to happen because I know that my family and I are unprepared for
such an event. Using zombies as a metaphor for a serious disaster was a good call. I praise the CDC for using zombies in
their informative comic book style novel. The use of zombies was very smart because it is something a lot of people find
interesting it would and did bring a lot of people in to read and retain the important information, not that everyone
understood the true purpose for the CDC releasing this. You can’t win them all. As I recall in the past couple of zombie
movies I have watched I did notice that the main characters did not have supplies. In Night of the Living Dead the home
that Barbara was in had a radio but it did not seem like there were a lot of supplies set up for an emergency. The
characters had to get all those things together themselves. Maybe if in major motion pictures they were prepared we
would all do the same.

While a zombie apocalypse is not probable to happen any time soon, or at all, this comic relays the point of
preparedness very well. In recent decades, there has been a large increase in the popularity of zombies and zombie films
in society. None of these films are suggesting that a zombie apocalypse is actually going to happen. Nor do the majority
of viewers take it literally and suggest an apocalypse in the future. The movies are made to address a certain stigma or
social concern. For example, the 2007 film Diary of the Dead is about society’s obsession with technology and the
internet as it shows a teen’s need to record everything that happens in his life. Jonathan Levine’s Warm Bodies addresses
post-9/11 America and the division among citizens it caused. It gives a message that love conquers all and everyone can
coexist happily. Even the earliest zombie movies like George Romero’s 1969 Night of the Living Dead create allegory in
zombie films, referring to racism as well as the state of society in the Sixties. None of these films created any reason
alluding to potential zombie apocalypses, but rather shined light on other social issues. The CDC is doing a similar thing
here. They are simply using zombies in a manner that will reach a broader audience in order to help spread the idea that
people should have preparation kits in the case of an emergency. Zombies keep it entertaining while still allowing the
point to come through.

The CDC’s Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic is a good way to talk about something that should be taken seriously,
but in a more light and humorous way. For example, the short comic like article goes over all the different scenarios that
may happen not only in a zombie apocalypse, but also any sort of natural disaster or outbreak. In order to understand
the reality of this article you can’t just take it as some fictional idea. The point of the article is to make you understand
the importance of a survival/disaster kit. This article reminds me a lot about storm shelters people have in areas that are
more frequent to tornados and other natural disasters. It is more common to find survival shelters and kits in areas that
are more prone to certain disasters. I think that it should be something that everyone should look into and prepare a
disaster kit just to be on the safe side. This article also reminded me of an old film be George Romero. In “Night of the
Living Dead,” a group of people find themselves stuck in a house as a zombie outbreak is going on. There is a group in
the cellar who have everything they need to survive and stay away from all of the zombies. Although their supplies were
found on the spot, I feel that the more prepared you are, the more likely you will think of things that you need the most.
The CDC did a great job to inform people of the importance of a survival kit. You just can’t look at the surface of this
article to understand the importance of it. I know I will be starting to look for things to keep ahold of just in case. You
should too.

While reading both the graphic novel and the CDC website article, I realized how preparation for a zombie apocalypse is
so closely related to that of any other natural disaster. As the graphic novel shows a zombie apocalypse, like any other
disaster can appear out of now where with little warning in advance, until it is too late. It shows the importance of
needing emergency supplies and having a plan for what to do in the event of any type of emergency. Depending on the
type of emergency, ex. a zombie invasion, we all would need to have enough supplies to survive for forever how long it
goes on. In the NBC’s television show, The Office, Dwight, in Season 5 Episode 14, “Stress Relief: Part 1”, creates a mock
fire drill that throws the entire office into a panic. The fire drill threw the entire office into chaos with everyone trying to
find a way to escape, they had no fire emergency plan that they were supposed to follow. Although it is only a fire drill, it
is a perfect example of how most people don’t have anything prepared for time an emergency. Once the event happens
it is too late, although to some people, it might be the only way to ensure people are prepared for what may happen in
the future.

The article Preparedness 101: “Zombie Apocalypse” gave great insight on the necessary steps to take in order to stay
alive during an apocalypse. They also provided techniques necessary to stay alive in not just a zombie apocalypse but
natural disasters such as, floods, tornadoes, and earthquakes. The idea of using comedy to inform the readers of this
article is a great tactic. It diverts the reader’s attention away from the seriousness of these life-threatening events. Using
this tactic, it allows the reader to become more engaged and relate to the material better. There are many readers who
have not experienced any type of natural disaster, or life-threatening event. The CDC uses comedy to relate to those
readers who have not yet experienced events with such impact. The article also provides a list of tools and necessary
resources that will be helpful during such hard times. I believe the CDC different approach to inform readers of the
different ways to tackle life-threatening catastrophes. The use of visuals also engages and helps readers better
understand necessary tips and tricks for catastrophes. This article was very informative and provided an outlook on
events that can be life-threatening and teach those who have not yet come into contact with such events.

Hey cdc what happens when the grid goes down and you don’t have enough power to keep tuning research and the
outher country’s can’t find a cure will it be ever man for himself

Thank you for equipping us with this valuable information. I feel that the odds will for ever be in my favor.

To the idiots that keep complaining about the use of their tax dollars;

You do realize that this is simply a more fun way to spread information on emergency preparedness, not specific to a
“zombie apocalypse”. Obviously its very unlikely that the bodies of dead human beings will come back and feast on us as
they’ve been dead for tens and hundreds of years. There would be no way for the body to continuously maintain itself
whilst buried underground with no food and water. Even if a completely deceased body, with the cause of death being
anything from a disease to a tumor, could somehow become reanimated, it wouldn’t be able to feed on anything, let
alone lift the 100s of pounds of dirt from on top of them off. The weak body couldn’t lift a casket or coffin lid, along with
the dirt, and then chase living people around and bite them with all the organs needed to support life in the body in
complete failure. It is physically and scientifically impossible for an actual zombie outbreak or apocalypse to occur. And
furthermore, if these creature were to somehow exist, the decomposition would leave them too weak to do anything, or
left so weak that the brittle remains would shatter if you flick or tap them, let alone shoot or batter their corpses.

Take things a little less personally for once and enjoy the fun behind the educational information. Things stated here
clearly say that they are to be used in ANY emergency, [including] the “zombie apocalypse”.

Comments above mention how improbable a zombie apocalypse is, but how unlikely is a disaster such as a hurricane,
tornado, bombing, or blizzard? Most will argue that it’s a one in a million chance that it could happen, and they won’t
attempt to prepare for the worst. Your graphic novel, Preparedness 101: Zombie Pandemic stressed an important issue
using an appealing presentation instead of just an article. How many people have read the novel in full instead of
laughing it off? With the current state affairs across the globe, being prepared for any situation is imperative. Being
prepared is something that doesn’t require a degree, education, or a special talent, just common sense and an
insignificant amount of time. In Night of the Living Dead, when the apocalypse is happening, Ben uses the resources
available to him in the house and since there is no preparation kit, it makes it harder to survive. If there was a kit in the
home, there is no doubt Ben would have had an easier time battling the undead. Instead of zombies attacking the
house, image a blizzard trapping them inside the house with no potential for escape. Any disaster, whether it be the
undead or mother nature, is something the CDC wants us to be prepared for and this article, as well as the graphic
novel, allows us to act in our own households.

Thank you for equipping us with this valuable information. I feel that the odds will for ever be in my favor.

the walking dead is life

Nice. A good way to get people engaged in disaster preparation is what I’d call this. Because there’s no better way to get
the attention of the public than through combining something the public adores and stuff that we normally deem
boring. Though, if I really want to prepare, I’ll become a photographer. They cover wars you know. (Good on you if you
get this reference.)

There are several reasons why I’m looking forward to a real Zombie Apocalypse.

this is a pretty cool site i always thought a zombie apocalypses would be cool.

It is kind of sad that in a desperate attempt to get stubborn people to prepare for disasters, you guys have to write stuff
on zombies. But, hey, whatever works.

I am a zombie. I resent being depicted as a threat. The truth is that living people are a greater threat to each other as
well as to zombies.

I didn’t like the end turned out but still sick??.

Do you people actually think that zombies are real?

Kudos to Dr. Khan for this blog post. Excellent! It is not a waste of money in my view and will encourage readers who
normally wouldn’t. To the killjoys, please enjoy a little levity and lighten up. Life is too short. And unfortunately there are
zombie believers out there.

Medications cannot be stocked up for emergencies when insurance only lets you refill them after a certain amount of
time. You should make sure your suggestions are even doable or change the laws so they can be accomplished.

I am really glad you covered this topic. it really spark my reality and imagination

Guys. They are just trying to use a zombie apocalypse to show how you can prepare for REAL natural disasters. It hooks
the readers in and gives some useful information and tips in the meantime.

Although some criticize the CDC for wasting taxpayer money by making this graphic novel about preparedness during
the zombie apocalypse, it is a clever way to make being prepared for a crisis more palatable to the public.

Do you still sell the shirts?

Thanks for your question. No, we no longer sell the campaign shirts.

Thanks that is really cool.

I also realized that most of this was in a Reading Plus lesson I did. It reminded me of it.

To be honest I think this is pretty cool how the CDC is getting prepared for this.

I Read Your Blog..It Is Really useful Information Thank You For Sharing

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Haaha!! This is so cool, I have read some useful content today.

I love that the cdc has a plan.

I have thought about what I would do if there ever was such a pandemic. It is interesting to think about and good to
know other people think about it too.

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Great information about emergency preparedness, its safe to say this article is bringing a lot of people including myself
to there senses.

Interesting read and great info on preparedness indeed.

Brief History of Zombies, Very Help full for us

Hmmm…..

This is an extraordinary method to get young people intrigued and associated with getting ready for a crisis. At any rate
they can recognize an emergengy with zombie-end of the world and act and respond in like manner if and when the
opportunity arrives.

Really enjoyed!!! ❤️👍👍👌

Great way to show how to prepare for emergency. Great idea! I wanted to but a t-shirt and clicked the link but no option
to buy the shirt.

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I’m scared

omggggggggggggggggggggg this is spooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooky

This is purely genius of CDC to use this fictional hot favorite to address serious life issues such as emergency
preparedness.

Thanks for taking the time to discuss this, I feel strongly about it and love learning more on this topic. If possible, as you
gain expertise, would you mind updating your blog with extra information? It is extremely helpful for me.

I’ve been directing my microbiology students here since it’s advent. I knew someday it’d be pertinent.

One wonders (as I look at shelves bare of toilet paper and Lysol) how many who applauded this in 2011 practiced it.
Obviously, many forgot it.

If you are not interested in the information provided in this article or do not see it’s need for assistance, simply avoid
searching the topic…?

Now that we are in a Pandemic Scare from the [Corona Virus]im glad i have read this useful information.

I love this! Great way to get young Scouts into e-prep without too much trauma. Lots of good starting points. May you all
survive with your brains and teams/families intact. CARRY ON MY WAYWARD SON…

When the CDC first released the Zombie materials in 2011, I incorporated some of the ideas in my emergency response
and safety training for an aerospace company I worked for. It was fun and serious at the same time, and well-received.
The materials are excellent and it’s for all of use to learn from, not just middle school children. Considering where we are
today with Covid-19, I’d like CDC to update the materials and re-release the materials so we as a people are better
mentally and functionally prepared to address this pandemic and the next one- and there will be a next one.

If anyone from CDC is reading this blog, please pass this on and get started. We need you.

It is actually a great and useful piece of information.

What a great idea! I would have never looked up an article about emergency preparation had it not been approached
this way. I love it and glad to know how to get prepared! Thank you!

So nice article, i just love it

Thanks man, really liked it!

Awesome. I’ve been a fan of being zombie prepared. I know it’s not going to happen anytime soon.
As the article says zombies or pandemic. Well the family and I have the means to stay home without any outside
interference for more than 12 months.
I was tickled to know this plan was in the CDC minds.

Love it love it love it.

Some may think it’s a waste of tax dollars, but I don’t.
I’ve always felt the rules for a zombie apocalypse and a pandemic are the same
Thank you for proving me right. And I thank you for doing your jobs in style.

Facts!!!!! Awesome work CDC

good

Is this for real? Is consideration of the public even considered in “blogging” anymore. Whomever wrote that has no tact
of a respectable journalist but portrays juvenile “news” and storytelling that belongs in teenage film “Twighlight”. Can you
let us know when we turn into werewolves and to expect to grow our wings and fly away? CDC is expected to be a
credible website where families and concerned people look to for well researched information and updates. This needs
further explaining, investigating and attention from the executives from CDC. NOT COOL!!!!

Used your advice to stock up on survival supplies years before the zombies (disguised as a virus) invaded Italy in 2020.
Avoided the panic buying. Sitting at home watching the world go by.

In my opinion, this is a very creative and ingenious way to reach the younger generations of today on a subject otherwise
completely ignored by most. However, I truly wish the CDC would update the site and provide new information. Even a
new contest or book etc would be great to see. As it stands, the information has gone untouched since 2011 and leaves a
person disappointed. There is a lot more information that could go into this program.

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Great job. An interesting topic from a government website. Very good.

Learned only recently of Zombie Apocalypse observances, and now the emergency/disaster prep concept. Good show!!!
The local “prepare for” is the Cascadia Subduction Zone, west of Vancouver Island. We would have two dozen “islands”
with bridges down here in Clallam County, so the personal water supply recommendation is 2 gallons per person for 30
days + for pets and visiting company.
As an FYI for readers of these comments, the Twilight saga’s werewolves and vampires, both books and movies,
generated enough income from tourists to keep the county from completely going under during the Great Recession.
COVID-19 is now the major additional e-prep concern. Had just skimmed through some of the Hurricane + COVID prep
material on CDC websites when Zombie Apocalypse popped up.

Brandy, if you read the article thoroughly you will see that they are using the Zombie Apocalypse as a way to get younger
generations involved in preparing for ‘any’ type of disaster, which they refer to many times. I’m very positive that this
article drew many people to it (both young and older) that wouldn’t have otherwise even considered preparing for the
eventuality of any type of disaster. (Have you even read the comments?) You should want the younger generation, along
with others, to be prepared and to talk about these things, especially in the world that we are living in today. Instead of
judging, why don’t you try looking at it from a different point of view, maybe one that isn’t just yours alone possibly?

I am putting together an environmental response lesson for my 7th graders for next September. (Fingers crossed we will
be back in the classroom.) I am using your zombies as a guide. I tried to follow the link to the CDC Foundation to order a
zombie t-shirt, but the link is broken. I hope I’m not too late to the game to get one. My kids would love it!

I am making a zombie survival bag now. One for my car, another for the house.

You forgot to write about the masks here…

Maybe you can re-purpose this “Zombie Apocolypse” concept (and graphics) to reach folks below 40 to alert them to
wear masks and social distance for COVID-19 so they don’t end up (unknowingly) “eating the brains” of those around
them, like relatives, that are AT-RISK. (Or aim it at AT-RISK people to view folks under 40 this way:-) Note that I picked 0-
39 as the age group where those with no underlying medical conditions have a low risk of serious illness but may also be
asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic.
I’m the artist who created the Zombie Pandemic graphic novel. Hey, I’m up for a sequel if the powers-that-be are! What
does everyone think about that…?

It might be useful, in case of a zombie apocalypse

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I would like to say that i think its a smart idea to prepare even tho its not necessary right now
but im happy to be prepared

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We’re in the Zombie Apocalypse now, 2020.

The cure?

Stop watching the news.

I like it too much

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Wow, very interesting

Thank you sharing……

this is a great article.

this is cool i am ready to fight zombies

It’s really very helpful

You also need some sort of communication device.

This an extremely fun way of sensitizing the general public about the need for emergency preparedness. Most people
take it for granted that the government will take care of them in case of any emergency.

I have only recently learned about this campaign, and I think the zombies need to come out of “hiding”. This Covid
pandemic is something we are all suffering from globally, and something we are trying to survive just like a zombie
apocalypse. Bring this campaign back!!!!!!!!!!

I love the wonderful way they left out some sort of weapon for self preservation or insurance against the Zombie hord. ie
a huge load of firearms and ammunition. Any individual who fails to remember that significant piece of the Z plan will be
the lure and nourishment for the zombies so every other person can get away 🙂
Thanks for dealing with that part of my
arrangement for me CDC. Presently I dont need to sacrafice one of my companions so I can get away.

I like your funny words magic man

brainssss

that’s amazing may god will never do this to this generation.

where are the guns baby

Thank You very much CDC for highlighting these future threats of human civilisation. After COVID 19, I believe anything is
possible. So, its good to be prepared for any scientific disaster…

I’m just bookmarking this just in preparation for the storm of bad news that 2020 is bound to throw at us on their way
out in December.

this is very bad but I got supplies with to go so if it happens it okay with me

cov19 can mutate into zombies the cells are the same as on world war z and walking dead shows look at the shows see
same cells.. the vaccine could make it mad turn people into zombies like the bible in zechariah 14 and revelation states.

To think this article was written that long and still we as a human race , with all out technology are not ready to handle
the pandemic. We have much to learn about preparing for the unknown.

I found your this post while searching for some related information on blog search…Its a good post..keep posting and
update the information.

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Especially since the threat of nuclear war with other nations is becoming much more impending.

Thanks for this article.

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I wish the CDC would bring the zombies back, too. Perhaps update the story for 2021 and the current pandemic. If any of
you are interested in seeing a sequel, contact the Center for Preparedness Response.

I understand that this makes for a “fun” way to get people more interested in disaster preparation however take into
consideration the possibility that in the event of this actually happening people may not take it serious in the event of an
actual alert.

Congratulations CDC! You have now lost all credibility with this garbage. Disease control is very serious. This zombie
section shows just how trivial the CDC thinks about human life. I’m wondering why the CDC is even funded at this point.
Truly worthless. Epic fail!

Fair warning, Thanks CDC!!! The side effects are just weeks away now and we should see the full effects of your gift to
mankind. We had 10 years to prepare 🙂
Predictive Programming for what will happen when people take the vaccine, genetically mutate and turn. Truth in plain
site! You’ve been warned!

After all the events that took place in 2020 and now in 2021, I don’t know… this seems plausible.

I know that zombies is dangerous but the thing is how long can a zombie live without food and drinks because all living
things required energy to survive and my other question is can zombie survived from electric shock?

How do I find the podcast with the two department chair’s (literature & medical science) from Oxford University as they
discuss, the Zombie book club requirement for students since 2006?
I also would like the white paper or article that pertains to the C.D.C.’s definition of a Zombie as a blood borne pathogen
that will not allow the body to die?

The irony of people commenting negatively on a campaign for how to prepare for a highly infectious pathogen turning
people rabid DURING an ongoing pandemic is hopefully not lost on anyone.

Thanks for the predictive programming. CDC, you are a shameful organization. From vaccines to COVID, your inversion
of the truth is truly top-notch.

Writing this one for year 2021, all I can say is it’s kinda freaky reading the comments that what If such a pandemic
happens and it did! It’s only “conspiracy theory” until its NOT anymore. Predictive programming I say. Desensitizing
people. Well 2020 has passed very quickly, shit tons of crazy things happening all around the globe, what else is next? If
you are reading this because someone from the internet told you about CDC Zombie preparedness, you’re in the right
place. Better believe this! This is not a fantasy, It’s for real! Be WARNED & Be prepared. Much love to everyone

Am I the only one that believes this to be weird and sadistic? CDC you have lost all cool point.

You have got to be kidding me!!!! These are the same idiots that are telling us to wear a mask. Oh yes. Now I will take
everything you morons say so seriously… Not!

This is so cool we need this to be prepared in case this really happens

I believe adding a few more items to the kid would be appropriate:

1) Toilet Paper (ummm…. yeah thank you 2020 for this)
2) Solar Panel Briefcase (you can purchase on Amazon)
3) Bread maker, Flour, Yeast, Bread Mix, Eggs, Oil
4) Dehumidifier
5) Nebulizer (per Covid -19 issues), and Asthma treatments available without a prescription
6) Lamp Oil, Oil Lamps, Candles, and Water Proof Matches, a few dozen lighters might be helpful too.
7) Actual maps of the area where you live (the kind that are made on paper)
8) Two way radios that run on batteries
9) Batteries
10) If you have the funds, underground bunker (available for install by professionals in your backyard)

If zombies was real how would I keep zombies away from me? Wood wouldn’t work to keep zombies from taking down a
door.
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If the CDC posts this, then you already know what is going to happen.

Clearly a firearm would be needed as part of the essential kit in a zombie situation, either take it serious and include the
tools you would need or don’t bother.

So no pack a punch?

Covid-19 has shown us that the “zombies” aren’t what we thought they would be. Nowadays a zombie is a person who
subscribes to the fearmongering of the virus and will give up their personal liberties and freedoms in the name of safety
and security, while condemning everyone around them who doesn’t conform with them.

I don’t know why people hate this so much or even think it’s a waste of time. I thought it was really entertaining to read. I
am a huge fan of The Walking Dead and Supernatural so this is the second best thing i have ever read. First being Harry
Potter.

I just want to say to the people yelling at the CDC people who made this. SHUT THE F*** UP!!! This shows that they
believe a zombie outbreak could be a possibility! And that they are keeping ready for it. Plus they put it in a way to teach
the younger generation for a more likely disaster. So thank you CDC, I honor your work, and the sacrifice to your honor
and pride.

Ok make a zombie out brake really happen then we will talk

zombie: critical people: 2,150,333,250 alive zombie: runs people shoots the last shot zombie dies (0 are left) people:
celebrates

Bruh

This is a great list, we should all be prepared.

This is a great list, we should all be prepared.

hello, good article nicely shared thought thanks.&This is so cool we need this to be prepared in case this really happens.

Some people have NO sense of humor unless it is slapstick humor. Some folks don’t understand satire AT ALL and must
be specifically told that this approach is a fun way to teach younger people about disaster preparedness. This novel
approach to disaster preparedness was a stroke of genius! Kudo’s

Amazing post

Great help!

I can’t believe I just found out about this. Who ever in the CDC agreed to this is awesome and it just goes to show, IF YOU
PREPAR FOR ANYTHING, YOU’RE PREPARED FOR EVERYTHING!

This is great but keep in mind, they did this to bring attention to the preparedness kit which can be utilized in any
emergency. “Zombie Apocalypse” literally made people read the article and put kits together. Marketing at its strongest!

Interesting

Great advice, Thanks! Guess we will be prepping soon, CDC!! 😆

Great advice, Thanks! Guess we will be prepping soon, CDC!!

This theme seems socially irresponsible. I’m not sure why the CDC itself would use a zombie theme when half the
country won’t get a vaccine during a pandemic because they are worried that they are going to be turned into zombies
by the government or be microchipped through the vaccine.

This is the very reason why people does not believe anything anymore coming from the CDC. A freaking joke, that is
what they are.

This is the very reason why people does not believe anything anymore coming from the CDC. They are a joke, that is
what they are.

This is the very reason why people does not believe anything anymore coming from the CDC. They are a joke, that is
what they are.
I love CDC article

Ngl i feel like a zombie like virus will exist one day. Idk when but with all the newly released technology and all these
experiments it wouldn’t surprise me if a zombie apocalypse actually happens.call me stupid idc

we should rush them zambies

So you guys are warning us about a zombie apocalypse? Did you know that I pray 3 months ago asking God to show me
what 2021 will be like. I believe he showed me some type of apocalypses coming. Now you are telling us to prepare for a
zombie apocalypse, what are you guys hiding?

I have a question . In some zombies movies I saw that an actor were saying it is helpful if we do makeup like a zombie
and walk like a zombie. So it is really working or its totally waste , can we use this trick in zombie apocalypse??

I’d come more to worrying about people trying to feed their family after something happens, because they wont care
about anyone when the kids are starving/freezing, etc. I’m sure i’d feel the same, but taking steps like getting supplies,
emergency shelter, blankets, etc. as well as “Defend yourself” items like firearms, blades, bats, whatever would seem
more prudent. As a soldier, i’ve BEEN on the short side of supplies many times, even in war, so plan, plan, and Prepare.
Medical kids, small to field hospital, what you can afford. Even things like sanitary napkins, because they’re Sterile, make
good bandages besides the more mundane uses (which will Still be important) #1=Water. #2 food, #3 Shelter, #4 safety.
Never count on being able to Stay where you are, retain some mobility unless you’re ABSOLUTELY Safe-concrete walls
and STABLE Supplies are the preferred methods.

get prepped it might happen because of covid 19

Beware!! The CDC and their elite club buddies are the creators of the zombies they are talking about here.

Hi

This is the reason people don’t believe on the CDC guidelines anymore; they have made wrong estimates, inexact
reporting, and now they are just plain joking.

I think that maybe they are just trying to get our attention by using zombies as and example because we are in an
pandemic 😷and they want us to take caution as if there was a zombie apocalypse. But then again if they are cooking up
something towards that . I feel like dang why use zombies your basically destroying the world like it’s basically the end of
the world type shit . Like y zombies what about vampires or leprechauns or aliens or something of that matter . But hey
all I ask for is if y’all want to make them and put them on the earth to kill us can y’all wait till like year 5050 or something
like when I made my life already and lived had kids and finished college. Cause tbh I kinda like the fact that we are in
COVID because it took a virus to come just so we can start washing our hands and disinfecting everything we touch . But
then again it is a bad thing cause everything is closed and people are scared .and if you think about it we basically are
already in a apocalypse because we are in coronavirus so … this is the apocalypse n zombie we’re really people that were
already dead and came from the ground so if a person is on earth going around biting us or eating us it’s man made and
yeah but we been fucked since slavery .

Why are people just now freaking out about this Preparedness Guide? This guide has been around for 9 years. It has
been rumored since 2012 about zombies. But of course people in 2021 are freaking out saying this is a new guide when
the date says May 16, 2011. Let alone that it wasn’t even the CDC who had posted this guide it was just a blogger that put
some info on here. Smh people you got to be kidding me and you must do better. I’d like someone to answer this for me,
Why do people freak out about old news that gets viral years later?

Well I can tell you one thing for sure, the zombies community has finally been heard out loud and treyarch is finally
implementing zombies into the real world. man gotta love the devs. and for the noobs please get Jug and pack your
weapons before we finish the easter egg.

The zombies community has been waiting for this. THANKS TREYARCH!

The CDC is afraid to include the non-politically correct items, such as firearms and ammunition. Those who say, “The
public doesn’t need to defend their own families during times of social breakdown because the police will do it.” don’t
recognize the fact that there will be few, if any, police available and they will be very thinly spread. Most will have gone
home to take care of their own spouses and children. That is what happened in New Orleans when the hurricane
smashed it. So, you would be well warned to be ready to protect your own family for at least a week. That includes, food,
water, medical supplies, and firearms.
 We are over due for depopulation of useless eaters, lets beg our noble politicians and elites for our destruction. Dont
forget to pollute environment with more plastic trash

Thanks for helping us prepare against the vaccinated zombies. I

Thanks for helping us prepare against the vaccinated zombies.

I honestly think the CDC wouldn’t give out guidelines like this without any information about it , I think something is
going to happen during this Corona virus pandemic and it will be all because of the Vaccines .

Watch : I Am Legend and SongBird & see how things are planned ahead .

We totally trust you CDC, because you did great in preventing Covid 19!

Yall… they know something we don’t.

Thank you CDC for this information.

Fast forward 2020 – Corona Virus.

Wear the masks, now take the vaccine..
Voila! Zombies will walk among us.
But we are prepared!

Everything that happens in the movies is real. So the whole Covid-19 thing is making sense now.

used sports equipment from Good Will or second-hand stores AKA baseball bats golf cubs hockey sticks are good for
fighting through the hoards of the undead Zombies.
P.s. Lol really funny of you CDC for making this blog on this topic it’s really Awesome lol
🙂
i kinda want it to happen

Malcolm is correct. Especially watch the open scene in I Am Legend and World War Z. Very interesting to say the least.

This article is such great! I totally agree with you CDC. We should be prepared for potential diseases and disasters,
maybe also zombies, too.

Woah! This article is such great! I would totally agree with you! We should be prepared for potential disasters and
diseases, too, even zombies.

Wow! amazing I had read this article and it is very humorous by the way serious.
Great advice, Thanks! Guess what, we will be preparing soon for the potential disease, CDC!! 😆
Wow! amazing I had read this article and it is very humorous by the way serious.
Great advice, Thanks! Guess what, we will be preparing soon for the potential disease, CDC!! 😆
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Hehehehehehehe 😅
Vaccine will probably cause the whole zombie apocalypse, Just like a video game I played basically had that happen.
Getting the baseball bats and everything ready, Gonna be In a waffle house because I’ll be safe there when this happens,
Thank You CDC for the plan you got!

Omfg no way this is real. I knew it!!!!!!

Tbh If zombies did come into the earth or come out of nowhere I would trust you guys to help us…I love zombies (TWD is
my fav) but I don’t think I will want it to happen for real.
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