Thoughts on Zombies in a novel.

Zombies have always been a entertainment business item devoted to video games and movies, they are lacking from the writing industry. I have been able to work around this by thinking of ways to incorporate a virus or mind control device which causes symptoms such as those zombies exhibit. Rabies is actually a very logical as in animals rabies causes primal instincts to become more pronounced and apperent. In humans if the diease was evolved and changed enough it could cause us to turn to zombies feasting on any meat and nutrients there is including other humans. Futuristic settings benefit this as technology may have advanced by this poin to allow mind control or the Rabies Condition.