CDC: Get Ready for Zombie Apocalypse

The CDC wants to make sure you’re prepared … for a zombie apocalypse. In a blog posting Monday that quickly became the organization’s most popular ever, Assistant Surgeon General Ali Khan offers helpful tips to prepare for the invasion of “flesh-eating zombies.” Conveniently enough, many of the steps can also be used to prepare for other emergencies and natural disasters, like preparing an emergency kit and a family emergency plan.

An emergency kit, the blog notes, can “get you through the first couple of days before you can locate a zombie-free refugee camp,” while an emergency plan indicates important things like “who you would call if zombies started appearing outside your doorstep.” Or, if you happen to be facing, say, a hurricane instead, you could use the same kit or plan. A CDC spokesperson tells Fox News the organization came up with the “tongue-in-cheek” campaign after someone asked if zombies were a concern after the radiation crisis in Japan. The blog is here, though the site appears to be crashed at the moment—here's hoping they had an emergency plan... (More Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stories.)