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-HPIn response to Agent Emil Alvarez of the Mid-West and his ideas on pheromones as a weapon:
Developing a synthetic human pheromone is possible, and not as difficult as you may believe. You may want to look into the techniques used in the perfume industry to replicate human pheromones used for reproductive attraction. If the zombie population was low, as in most of North America, you may successfully draw out the 10 or so in a 50 mile radius with heavy applications of the pheromone in aerosol form. If you try the aerosol in a tropical area where the zombie population is high, that's asking for trouble. In that situation, a little drop of the pheromone in a concentrated form will more than suffice.
Remember to make sure that you have enough agents to handle the expected population of zombies you will encounter if you attempt to "bait and trap." A ratio of 3:1 (zombies to man) is about as risky as I would let it get. Also be prepared to handle any "stragglers" or late arriving packs that may show up after the eradications begin. The last thing you would want is to find yourself with more you can handle and/or being sandwiched between two separate packs. If you prepare accordingly, you shouldn't get in too far over your head.
Good luck with your research, and be sure to keep us posted!
OK, now for my general tidbits!
It is generally believed that zombies have an average lifespan of approximately one year. One thing that I have understood is that climate and weather exposure may greatly increase or decrease a zombie's lifespan. The rate of decay is significantly affected by temperature and humidity levels.
In tropical regions where the temperature and humidity are high, a zombie may only last a few days at best. The high humidity and temperatures accelerate decay at a rapid pace, reducing the zombie to a pile of bones in as little as 10 days in some cases. With a high human population in these areas, there is readily enough food/prospective-zombies in the area to keep the undead population high despite the rapid decay rates.
The rate of decay slows down and almost comes to a grinding halt in areas of extreme heat and cold. A zombie can live an existence of many years in the frozen tundra feeding off seals and wandering Inuit (Eskimos). Some zombies caught up in this region have been estimated to be well over 150 years old. Zombies have also been known to live for hundreds, possibly thousands of years in the hot dry areas of Northern Africa and the Middle East. The whole myth of mummies comes from travelers seeing the lone, wandering corpses in the middle of the dunes of the Egyptian Sahara. The zombie population in this region is the lowest worldwide due to lack of a food source as well as a little known, desert-wide eradication ordered by Napoleon in 1798.
I'll have more to contribute later!
-Aero-D
"If a stake through the heart won't work, try a shotgun to the head!"