The zombie apocalypse would almost certainly be the saddest way for the human race to go. But is it actually possible for us to rise from the dead as a self-cannibalising horde of mindless killers? Well, yes and no.
As ASAPScience explains, we might not ever actually come back from the dead and eat each other’s brains, but a 28 Days Later-like zombie virus could potentially bring the whole human race down. [ASAPScience]
While (thankfully,) human zombies are the stuff of fiction, a certain type of fungus is known to infect ants into a zombie like state: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis
I think we should genetically modify said fungus to make super soldiers that in turn start infecting everyone and only a handful of charismatic hollywood types survive
aren't the charismatic ones the first to get eaten?