'Zombie attack' in China follows US incidents: reports

Following two flesh-eating “zombie attack” incidents that occurred recently in the United States, a similar attack took place in China last week.

According to people.com and other Chinese news outlets Friday, an intoxicated man assaulted a woman and bit her face around 2 p.m. on May 26 in Wenzhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province.

Reports said the man resorted to violence after blocking the woman’s car. As she got out of her car to flee, he attacked her and bit her face relentlessly.

Upon hearing a loud noise from them, police and citizens rushed to the scene and tried to separate the two. But her nose and lips were disfigured.

Investigators said that unlike the cases in the United States, one in Miami, the other in Syracuse, New York, the man had not taken drugs.

Netizens appeared frightened. They said the incident was similar to the Miami zombie incident which shocked the world, adding that a real zombie virus may exist.

Meanwhile, a Georgia woman battling a rare, flesh-eating disease is preparing to be released from hospital after nearly two months.

Aimee Copeland's father told the Associated Press on June 26 of his 24-year-old daughter’s plans to transfer from Doctors Hospital in Augusta to an in-patient rehabilitation center. Andy Copeland says she will spend several weeks there learning to move herself after having her left leg, right foot and both hands amputated.

The graduate student at the University of West Georgia contracted the rare infection after she suffered a deep cut when she fell from a broken zip-line May 1.