KROKODIL!!! THE DRUG THAT ROTS FLESH...WARNING VERY GRAPHIC...!!!

Oleg has brought with him – painkillers, iodine, lighter fluid, industrial cleaning oil, and an array of vials, syringes, and cooking implements.


Half an hour later, after much boiling, distilling, mixing and shaking, what remains is a caramel-coloured gunge held in the end of a syringe, and the acrid smell of burnt iodine in the air. Sasha fixes a dirty needle to the syringe and looks for a vein in his bruised forearm.

The home-made drug that Oleg and Sasha inject is known as krokodil, or "crocodile".
It is desomorphine, a synthetic opiate many times more powerful than heroin that is created from a complex chain of mixing and chemical reactions, which the addicts perform from memory several times a day.

"If you miss the vein, that's an abscess straight away," says Sasha.
Essentially, they are injecting poison directly into their flesh.
One of their friends, in a neighbouring apartment block, is further down the line.

"She won't go to hospital, she just keeps injecting.

Her flesh is falling off and she can hardly move anymore," says Sasha.
Photographs of late-stage krokodil addicts are disturbing in the extreme.
Flesh goes grey and peels away to leave bones exposed.
People literally rot to death.

If zombies did start roaming the streets, CDC would conduct an investigation much like any other disease outbreak.
CDC would provide technical assistance to cities, states, or international partners dealing with a zombie infestation.
This assistance might include consultation, lab testing and analysis, patient management and care, tracking of contacts, and infection control (including isolation and quarantine).
It’s likely that an investigation of this scenario would seek to accomplish several goals: determine the cause of the illness, the source of the infection/virus/toxin, learn how it is transmitted and how readily it is spread, how to break the cycle of transmission and thus prevent further cases, and how patients can best be treated.
Not only would scientists be working to identify the cause and cure of the zombie outbreak, but CDC and other federal agencies would send medical teams and first responders to help those in affected areas (I will be volunteering the young nameless disease detectives for the field work)...

http://www.bt.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp