Ebola Zombies: Thomas Eric Duncan ‘Rises from the Dead?’ After Death? That’s a Hoax

There’s no “Ebola zombies.” An article claiming Thomas Eric Duncan, the man who was first diagnosed with the Ebola virus in the US, has risen from the dead is fake.

Medical staff wearing protective clothing arrives at the apartment building of the Spanish nurse infected with Ebola in Madrid, Spain, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Officials said a nurse and a nursing assistant have been placed under observation for Ebola in a Madrid hospital where a colleague became infected after working with two Spanish missionary priests who contracted the disease in West Africa and later died at the center. AP Photo/Andres Kudacki

There’s no “Ebola zombies.” An article claiming Thomas Eric Duncan, the man who was first diagnosed with the Ebola virus in the US, has risen from the dead is fake.

The bogus report, along with a few other stories about “zombies” caused by Ebola, was published on Huzlers.com, which is a fake news website.

The fake report states: “Only a few hours after the first person every diagnosed with Ebola on American Soil died from the disease, Thomas Eric Duncan, allegedly ‘rose from the dead and began attacking hospital nurses and civilians walking in the streets before being shot and re-killed’ by Dallas police. Officials say Thomas Eric Duncan managed to severely injure at least three random civilians before being ‘killed’, again. The three victims are being specially treated for the possibility of contracting the Ebolavirus from Mr. Duncan, who attacked the three by biting, chewing, and clawing at the skin of the victims.”

But according to a disclaimer on the website, it’s not real and shouldn’t be taken seriously.

“Huzlers.com is a combination of real shocking news and satirical entertainment to keep its visitors in a state of disbelief,” it reads.

Earlier in the week, Huzlers posted an article that used a photo from a movie that said Ebola prompted people to come back from the dead, which went viral on social media websites. That’s also not true and it was taken from a Liberia-based newspaper that was spreading baseless rumors about the incident.

“None of those cases actually constituted an Ebola victim’s genuine rise from the dead, however. The image shown above, widely circulated as that of a reanimated Ebola victim, is actually a prop mask. Also widely circulated as an image of an ”Ebola zombie“ is an image of a ”lab zombie“ taken from the movie World War Z,” hoax-debunking website Snopes.com said.

The newspaper, The New Dawn, last month said that two women came back to life. However, there were no other media reports on the matter and it seems likely they weren’t dead to begin with but rather, they were falsely presumed dead.