How to survive the Zombie Apocalypse P1

How to survive the Zombie Apocalypse

This basic outline assumes that the Zombie causing agent, which we will be calling the "Z-Virus" no matter it's actual nature, is only transmittable through a bite, or infected liquids entering an open wound. (as far as I am aware ingesting infected matter would result in death, not infection.)

Also we must take into account those that would be immune to the infection or, like any infection or illness, be able to survive the symptoms and be able to survive, thus granting them immunity to the virus; something that would hopefully be transferred to the next generation.
Despite these things we will put the estimated successful infection of those exposed through bite or other valid infection avenues at roughly %95.

1: Z-Day

The most likely cause for infection would probably be a lab experiment gone wrong. Now, the writer would like to believe that most scientist or scientific institutions would have the forethought to immediately terminate the test subject and sanitize the test area with as many cleaning agents, including some acids and fire, as possible. However the writer is quite aware that most places would most likely keep the subject and Z-virus in storage to study, for good or evil purposes, most likely both.
The most likely cause for public infection would be either a compromised storage container or the Z-virus being used as a weapon.
We will not go into details about the mode of infection, we will just say the subject, or subjects, became infected somehow.

Now, in the writers opinion, the odds of a Zombie virus spreading very far is very small. This is mainly due to our society as a whole. you can ask most anybody who has their head on somewhat straight, and some that can't even find theirs, how to kill a zombie. Most would answer the correct mode of terminating a zombie would either be a head-shot, decapitation, severe brain trauma, or natural decomposition. Also our society has been trained to fear zombies and a zombie apocalypse, much like we fear an alien invasion, and it being our nature, we would strive to terminate this outbreak as soon as possible.
Therefore, the likelihood that an outbreak would be able to progress to the point that it can be considered to be of Apocalyptic proportions is very miniscule.

However, despite the writer's doubts we will assume that society will not stop the infection and it does reach somewhat apocalyptic proportions.

So, now we have our most likely cause of first infection: A lab accident most likely in a highly populated region.

The next chapter will address the spread of the Z-Virus and it's effect on modern society.