I’ve gotten a zillion emails about it in the last couple days. It must be a hoax. Recall I was burned on a similar story about outbreaks of Zombism in Asia — though the Zombie dog URL is more convincing. Don’t people think that a story about reanimating the dead would have been picked up by the wires?

Update: From a reader:

“Perhaps I should add my friend’s comment: “This cannot be true. It *can* *not.* Where are these findings published? The New England Journal of Concentrated Evil???”