What is zombie Swine Flu?

Answer 1

It is something someone made up to try to fool or scare people. So don't believe everything like this that you hear. There is no such thing as Zombie Swine Flu or H1Z1. The rumors and hoax originally were started as an April Fool's Day joke in 2005 but at that time, it was supposedly a disease caused by mosquitoes in Asia.

That story got started again for April Fool's Day 2009 when someone made it seem like the BBC had reported a mutation of the original H1N1 Swine Flu into H1Z1 "Zombie Swine Flu". The spoof and hoax grew from there as internet hoaxes do, and got rewritten and spread quickly fueled by the fears people already were having about the new Novel H1N1 Influenza, being called at that time the 2009 Swine flu, that first began to be discovered also in April 2009. For more details, see the link below to the Snopes.com web page about the false "report".

But, even if this weren't another internet hoax, I don't believe that Zombies can get the flu at all, anyway. They can't get any kind: not stomach flu, not Swine flu, not Bird flu or any other kinds of viruses. The reason is that viruses need to have a living host to be able to reproduce and infect animals or people. Since we know that Zombies are not really living, and viruses know that, too, they just don't bother to infect Zombies, it is a waste of a virus' time.

I think that even if someone told you that the Swine Flu would turn you into a Zombie, not that they thought that Zombies could get the flu, you can be sure that they would have made that up, too. Because viruses can't do that either. That is a scientific fact. So that is out, too.

And, finally, and most importantly, since Zombies are mythical and not real, we have absolutely nothing to worry about. There is a link below to the WikiPedia information about mythical Zombies.

Think of the 2007 movie I Am Legend. Now maybe you're starting to get the joke, eh?