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* In the novel ''[[World War Z]]'', it's implied that this was one of the contributing factors for the quick spread of the zombie virus, often with refugees from Third World countries taking their infected loved ones with them in the hopes of finding a non-existent cure in the more industrialized / wealthier First World nations.

** Less "implied" and more "openly suspected by one of the interviewees," really.

Nury Televaldi: If that's what you want to call them. What better place to hide than among that portion of society that no one else even wants to acknowledge? How else could so many outbreaks have started in so many First World ghettos? (They're talking about people who paid to have themselves smuggled out of China and into any other country they could get to. Nury dealt mainly with land transportation.) }}

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* Subverted in one of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' Treehouse of Horror Halloween episodes. Zombie Flanders walks over to Homer's house, presumably to eat him. Homer guns him down without hesitation.

'''Homer''': He was a zombie? }}

** A similar occurrence in the next season's Treehouse of Horror when the family discovers Bart-turned-vampire about to attack Lisa. Grampa Simpson immediately bursts in with a stake and garlic.

'''Grampa''': He's a vampire!? AAAAAH! *runs away* }}

* Spoofed in the South Park episode "Marjorine": To steal from the girls a "Cootie Catcher" they assume can really tell the future, the boys fake Butters' death so they can insert him as a cross-dressing undercover agent. Mr. Stotch digs up the pig carcass that was buried as Butters' body and reburies it in the old Indian Burial Ground. When Butters shows up again his parents naturally assume he is a "demon spawn."