When it first broke out, the internet went crazy and even the proper news started talking about zombie apocalypses, quoting pop culture as expertise. That was of course pointless; the dead never rose up, they stayed dead.
So then people started turning to religion for answers instead. The problem with that was that the preachers were the first ones to go. By the time the rabbis and shamans, and even the nuns and monks, started dropping like flies, we were quickly running out of prophets to turn to.