Are you ready for the “Zombie Apocalypse”?

Submitted by shelbydburns Fri 05/20/2011

You have to give the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention credit where it’s due. Given the daunting task of getting young, media-savvy people interested in unsexy, natural disaster preparedness, they rose to the occasion. How does one communicate the need to store up water and AAA batteries to the twenty-something? Send out a Zombie Apocalypse warning, of course.

In a stroke of brilliance, the CDC added a page to their website “Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse” to get this target audience thinking about the June 1 start of hurricane season. The CDC’s Public Health and Preparedness Center was monster successful.

“There are all kinds of emergencies out there that we can prepare for,” the blog post starts off. “Take a zombie apocalypse for example. . . 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.” The site goes on to say that if you are prepared for a zombie invasion then you’ll be prepared for all types of natural catastrophes.

Dave Daigle, CDC spokesman, said that a typical CDC blog post would bet between 1,000 and 3,000 hits. The record has been 10,000 hits. The zombie page had 60,000 hits and shut the system down.

Or was it a zombie take over? You better be ready.

Source: CDC, Reuters

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