I feel "viral infection" is overly narrow wording. Sure, rabies, the classic zombism analog, happens to be a virus. But given there are also many known transmissible, behavior-controlling infections that are *not* viral, it seems premature to assume this property would hold for upcoming zombie epidemics.<p>For instance: ophiocordyceps [0,1] is a fungus, and toxoplasmosis [2,3] is a single-celled eukaryote.<p>[0] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15651231" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15651231</a> (<i>"'Zombie ant' brains left intact by fungal parasite"</i>)<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis</a><p>[2] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15376654" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15376654</a> (<i>"Rage Disorder Linked with Toxoplasmosis"</i>)<p>[3] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii</a>
I love reading Service Terms and Software Licenses. I find them fascinating. Where else could you have so much fun. For example a company creating software licenses that threaten its own employees publicly? :-)<p><a href="https://www.oracle.com/downloads/licenses/db18c-express-license.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.oracle.com/downloads/licenses/db18c-express-lice...</a>