TIME FOR ZOMBIES!!

Scientists create zombie dogs

I don’t know about you, but for me, zombies are pretty much the greatest thing that mankind has ever produced. I mean, how can you not love zombies? Well, it appears that life is once again imitating art, since U.S. scientists have succeeded in creating eerie zombie dogs, “reanimating the canines after several hours of clinical death in attempts to develop suspended animation for humans.”

According to the article on NEWS.com.au:

Pittsburgh’s Safar Centre for Resuscitation Research has developed a technique in which subject’s veins are drained of blood and filled with an ice-cold salt solution.

The animals are considered scientifically dead, as they stop breathing and have no heartbeat or brain activity.

But three hours later, their blood is replaced and the zombie dogs are brought back to life with an electric shock.

Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.

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During the procedure blood is replaced with saline solution at a few degrees above zero. The dogs’ body temperature drops to only 7C, compared with the usual 37C, inducing a state of hypothermia before death.

Although the animals are clinically dead, their tissues and organs are perfectly preserved.

Damaged blood vessels and tissues can then be repaired via surgery. The dogs are brought back to life by returning the blood to their bodies,giving them 100 per cent oxygen and applying electric shocks to restart their hearts.

This definitely makes up for my extreme disappointment at the lack of massive zombie outbreaks as a result of the 2003 solar events.