Eureka Alert reports that lead researcher Alexander Alemi thinks isolated areas would be the safest place to be, but it wouldn’t take longer than 28 days for zombies to get bored of big cities and come looking.

Alemi says: “Given the dynamics of the disease, once the zombies invade more sparsely populated areas, the whole outbreak slows down–there are fewer humans to bite, so you start creating zombies at a slower rate.

“I’d love to see a fictional account where most of New York City falls in a day, but upstate New York has a month or so to prepare.”

Although the chances of a zombie invasion are pretty slim, Alemi predicts that his colleagues are thinking of advancing their model further, saying: “Given the time, we could attempt to add more complicated social dynamics to the simulation, such as allowing people to make a run for it, include plane flights, or have an awareness of the zombie outbreak.”

Do you feel better or worse knowing that scientists are feasibly testing out these theories? We’re not sure…

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