Your Government is prepared and has a plan...for the Undead!

Yes, the Center for Disease Control has a webpage about preparing for a zombie apocalypse. It's actually Assistant Surgeon General Ali Khan's very clever method of getting public attention focused on their guidelines for emergency preparedness in the face of more pressing disasters such as hurricanes. You're advised to stock up on food and water and first aid supplies (“Although you’re a goner if a zombie bites you, you can use these supplies to treat basic cuts and lacerations that you might get during a tornado or hurricane,” the agency says).

Also figure out “where you would go and who you would call if zombies started appearing outside your door step,” the CDC’s post advises. No mention of preparing a weapons arsenal or any advice on killing these shambling bad guys.

The webpage became so popular that the increased traffic crashed their site. Zombie preparedness is the brainchild (sorry) of communications staff who noticed that traffic spiked when zombies were mentioned during one of its Twitter sessions on Japan and radiation, says Dave Daigle, a CDC spokesperson who led the new campaign.