# Help me name my zombie virus or bacteria **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 31, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-zombie-virus-or-bacteria/741792 "2015-12-31T03:11:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-zombie-virus-or-bacteria/741792/1 "2015-12-31T03:11:36Z")
In my basement lab, I have created a virus (or bacteria; I’m not picky) that causes zombism. (Zombieism?) I need a scientific name for it. Also a catchy popular name. I turn to the Dope’s inventive minds. (This is for the game Pandemic: we’ve bought Petri dishes to store the disease markers and we want to label the Petri dishes, because, you know…science.) Actually, bonus points if you want to offer creative names for the red, yellow, and blue disease markers, too. The black ones are of course the zombie plague. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-zombie-virus-or-bacteria/741792/2 "2015-12-31T03:14:36Z")
Vigormortis. Or if you prefer vigormortitis. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-zombie-virus-or-bacteria/741792/3 "2015-12-31T03:30:10Z")
encephalophagic fever ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-zombie-virus-or-bacteria/741792/4 "2015-12-31T03:31:10Z")
Scientific name: Romero Pestis Popular name: Undaedalus ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-zombie-virus-or-bacteria/741792/5 "2015-12-31T03:49:36Z")
_ **Pseudothanatos pestis** _ has a nice ring to it - literally “plague of false death” And I love **snfaulkner** ’s “Encephalophagic fever” for the common name ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-zombie-virus-or-bacteria/741792/6 "2015-12-31T04:50:04Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > encephalophagic fever For the win. We are all playing for second place now. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-zombie-virus-or-bacteria/741792/7 "2015-12-31T04:58:36Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > For the win. We are all playing for second place now. 🙂 What do i win? A petri dish? ---
**Author:** ![Krouget](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b38774/32.png) [@Krouget](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krouget)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-zombie-virus-or-bacteria/741792/8 "2015-12-31T14:07:16Z")
_Unnnnnh_fluenza. _slow moan on that first part_ [Patient zero.](http://www.thedailysheeple.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/ethan-couch-arrested-mexico-affluenza.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-zombie-virus-or-bacteria/741792/9 "2015-12-31T14:49:22Z")
_Redivivus reanimator_ ---
**Author:** ![Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@Go\_Arachnid\_Laser\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Go_Arachnid_Laser_1)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-zombie-virus-or-bacteria/741792/10 "2015-12-31T15:21:42Z")
Lazarus ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-zombie-virus-or-bacteria/741792/11 "2015-12-31T15:32:23Z")
Farnsworth Fever, after the supposed inventor of the television. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2015, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-name-my-zombie-virus-or-bacteria/741792/12 "2015-12-31T15:46:07Z")
Popular name? The Dopes.