And the worst part is that the zombies don't eat your brain, the disease does

Honestly it's kinda scary how close we are to a zombie apocalypse, except the zombies most likely wouldn't be humans, they would be animals; All it takes is for one to have prion disease and rabies at the same time. I mean it could also be a human too since prion disease heavily messes with thinking and motion which could lead to no hesitation in biting something