Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "This Man Is Already Dead, He Just Doesn’t Know It… ☠️" video.

@OVOJermey The idea for zombies came from Haitian voodoo, there's a drug used in Haiti that can shut down a lot of the body's systems without killing the person, effectively turning the person in to a shambling wreck with respiration and heart rate that are very faint, people have been declared dead and then woke up hours later. Rabies is however thought to be where vampire mythology comes from since it is known as the biting disease and one of it's biggest vectors is bats.
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@Thebigcheese-p5p Not to mention that even with the milwaukee protocol you still have only like a 2% chance of recovery, you are far more likely to end up in a vegetative state if you survive both the virus and the treatment. If I ever got rabies I think I would ask a doctor to allow it to run it's course and kill me rather than opting for a potential treatment that is almost guaranteed to leave me with severe cognitive impairment.
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