5. Top 10 Zombie Diseases Rabies
Cause: bite of rabid animal (dog, cat, raccoon, bat) infected with Rhabdovirus
Symptoms
Stage 1: fever, chills, vomiting, anxiety, agitation, loss of appetite, irritability, sleeping problems and extreme tiredness. Stage 2: Biting, thrashing, elusions, hallucinations, excessive salivation, high fever and excessive sweating. They also experience fear of water (hydrophobia), even the mention of the word “water” can cause them to have uncontrollable spasms. Coma and death.
Sleeping Sickness
Cause: Bite of tsetse fly (Africa) infected with Trypanosoma brucei.
Stage 1: fever, chills, joint pains, itching and headache; Stage 2: poor motor coordination, changes in behavior, sensory disturbances and confusion. Sleep disturbance, the reason why it is called sleeping sickness, is the most important symptom seen in this stage. Coma and death.
Nodding disease
Cause: unknown, neurological condition
Progressive cognitive dysfunction, a characteristic nodding of the head, stunted growth and neurological deterioration. However, children with this problem also develop other bizarre zombie-like symptoms: some start fires and appear traumatized while others tend to wander around and get lost even in familiar places.

6. Top 10 Zombie Diseases Leprosy Cause: Mycobacterium leprae Symptoms
Numbness, slow shuffling, decaying appearance of the skin
!!!! With the use of multidrug therapy, WHO eliminated leprosy in the year 2000 and almost 16 million patients have been cured over the past 20 years. In fact, 95% of the global population is now naturally immune to leprosy.
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
Cause: Exact cause unknown; suspected: Prion disease (self-replicated brain proteins)
behavioral changes, lack of coordinated muscle movements, visual disturbances and memory loss, blindness, involuntary movements, and mental deterioration. Coma and death 
Running amok
Cause: Unknown. Rare psychiatric problem of Malay tribes
Act irrationally and cause havoc, temporary indiscriminate and mentally unstable behavior with homicidal and suicidal thoughts, cause fatalities and injuries
!!!! Almost unheard of in modern world, no reports since mid-20th century

7. Top 10 Zombie Diseases Neurofibromatosis
Cause: genetic, tumor-like growth in nervous system
Symptoms
numerous neurofibromas (the soft bumps usually caused by benign nerve tissue tumors), the development of larger than normal head circumference, development of bone deformities, and short stature
Necrotizing Fasciitis (aka flesh-eating disease)
Cause: bacterial infection
Pain and muscle soreness, skin then becomes warm and red and
sometimes purplish. Ulcers and blisters then erupt on skin surfaces.
Yaws
Cause: bacteria Treponema pallidum
Skin sores that spread to multiple sores, swelling of bones and fingers. If not treated with antibiotics, advanced stages: the bone and skin sores usually result in disability and severe disfigurement

8. Top 10 Zombie Diseases Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
Cause: Fungus in ants (only!)
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis knows exactly where its host’s brain is located, controls it and induces its host to have biting tendencies!