CDC Zombie Apocalypse offering: Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse. Everyone needs a Zombie plan!!! The concept of zombies, the CDC helpfully notes, has Haitian and New Orleans voodoo origins and refers to “a corpse mysteriously reanimated to serve the undead.” But even though science can’t answer that gnawing question “Why do zombies like to eat brains so much?” there is much that everyday Americans can do to prepare themselves in the event of a Zombie Apocalypse. “That’s right, I said z-o-m-b-i-e a-p-o-c-a-l-y-p-s-e. You may laugh now, but when it happens you’ll be happy you read this, and hey, maybe you’ll even learn a thing or two about how to prepare for a real emergency.”That’s from the author of this particular medical treatise. Clearly, CDC’s quite concerned about zombies as they’ve brought in the big guns here. In this case, Rear Admiral Ali S. Khan, MD, MPH, Assistant Surgeon General and Director, Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response How It Started After some actually quite fascinating discussion of the various zombie-creation scenarios used in movies, TV shows and literature, even clothing, as well as a (fictional) medical paper by Harvard psychiatrist Steven Schlozman which posits an Ataxic Neurodegenerative Satiety Deficiency Syndrome,…