The stories I write about for these 31 DAYS OF HALLOWEEN! series aren't usually truly scary, or scarier than anything having to do with Halloween. This time, however, real and fictional worlds have collided and merged to create something that was intended to be humorous and was then taken completely seriously by people who should have known better.
A satire site "reported" that three Ebola victims in Africa had risen from the dead. The story featured a photo of the most recent Ebola zombie and cited two recent news stories from African news sites about Ebola victims reanimating before being buried.
The truth is that both news stories are unsubstantiated, and the "Ebola zombie" is a doctored photo combining a still from the zombie movie (and crappy one at that) "World War Z" with a photo of a zombie sculpture.
While there haven't been any confirmed cases of reanimated Ebola victims, could such a thing even be possible? Perhaps the virus is mutating, and its victims are surviving instead of dying? Or maybe something far worse than any horror movie creation will result from a mutated Ebola virus? Despite hoaxes like these, Ebola remains a very real and very frightening new reality that the entire world must now face.
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