‘World War Z,’ new zombie movie, drew on real life horrors

June 24, 2013

Written by Max Brooks and published in 2006 under the same title, the novel begins in China, where the initial patient to be infected with the zombie virus is said to be a young boy from a remote Chinese village. The virus then spreads to other parts of the world through the black market organ trade, where infected organs extracted from executed political prisoners are sold to people in need of organ transplants. Those with the transplanted organs then die and come back alive as zombies. (The Epoch Times)