According to this story in the BBC there’s a small town in Cambodia with people who have been infected by a new parasite carried by mosquitos native to the area.  The mortality rate for those infected so far has been 100%, but the strange part of the story is that the parasite restarts the victims’ hearts and other organs for a couple of hours and the victims proceed to walk around in a zombie-like state and behave violently before the effect wears off.

According to the story the Cambodian government is studying the parasite, an action which US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice has objected to and claimed that the Cambodians hold a great potential biological weapon.  You think?  (I’m wondering if the same parasite is indigenous to DC…might explain a lot of the goings-on at the White House).

This has all the earmarks of a spoof, but if it’s true I can honestly say that it’s one of the creepiest stories I’ve seen.  Ugh.