Zombies leading cause of death among scientists survey reveals

An industry wide survey conducted by the international scientific community has revealed that monster related deaths in labs have reached an all time high.

Biological scientists were identified as being most at risk, with over 40% of the workforce claiming to have become zombified at some point during their careers.

“It’s bizarre, no matter which field of inquiry my fellow scientists pursue, at some point they always suffer a horrible mutation or become flesh eating zombies”, said Magnus Åkerblad, the scientist behind the survey.

Dr Åkerblad tells us that he was compelled to commission the survey after his colleague, John Maldi, a former nutrition and gut-bacteria researcher, died whilst undertaking research.

“One minute he was investigating the effects of common nutritional supplements on the gut biome and the next minute he’s shambling out of his lab and biting his doctoral students. Fortunately one of the PhD students was able to empty a tank of liquid nitrogen over his head before he could do any more damage.

But such incidents do not appear to be limited to biological scientists, with virologists routinely sprouting extra appendages and growing to enormous sizes before going on bloody rampages or, in one instance, hunting down members of a special police unit.

“Considering how common these events are becoming, I fear that some type of zombie apocalypse situation is inevitable”, Dr Åkerblad added.

Asked whether he thought there should be limitations put on all, even seemingly harmless research, Dr Åkerblad shook his head sternly.

“You can’t stop progress. If we’re not doing this research others will. However, I recommend closely monitoring scientists undertaking unusual research, particularly those who apply for funding to improve the digestibility of human flesh or individuals that have adopted a slower and irregular gait.”

Other fields of research are proving equally dangerous, with over a quarter of theoretical physicists being consumed by aliens they inadvertently pull into our dimension, and AI researchers routinely murdered by their own creations.