When are people going to start realizing that zombies arent real, and the zombie apocalypse is NOT coming?
Zombies are popular, and at least a few epidemiologists are taking advantage of that popularity to teach people about disease transmission. The zombies are not real, but disease transmission is very real.
The CDC also has a guide to surviving a zombie apocalypse on its website. Again, it is using a fiction to teach about a real idea (surviving a disaster).
Why not use zombies to make teaching dry subjects fun?
The CDC also thinks any incidents involving guns are a “disease”.