Very well written article. I think that this is the first time I've ever had a written word piece make me jump, even just a bit. You're descriptions of the "living dead" in medieval times is truly terrifying because because you make it more plausible with the descriptions and pictures of how bubonic plague works. So much the worse that the zombies are not mindless, but human beings in pain, in need of comfort, and contagious as Hell. So much the more deadly. Just ask the locals at the next ebola outbreak. IIRC, they were having problems with a tradition of kissing the deceased loved one's corpse spreading the virus to the living.

I'm using the comment I'm replying to as a tip jar, and I'm definitely passing this article on.

BlackGriffen