Could a Walking Dead zombie apocalypse scenario actually happen? Scientist says it’s a matter of time

The Walking Dead may be fiction, but the zombie research society, a body of academics points to the existence of contemporary diseases that could cause the very same disaster depicted on the T.V show. So could the walking dead really happen?

Dr Ben Newman Professor of Virology at the University of Reading in the U.K argues that it’s only a matter of time before a virus mutates into a zombie generating contagion.