What is and What is not a Zombie

The modern films most of the time portray zombies, as humans who have been effected by some sort of an epidemic and are now contaminating what's left of everyone who is living. Mostly everybody thinks that zombies are just a made up story, this is not true, zombies have been around for ages in the Haiti tribe folklore, where people using black whichcraft and voodoo created zombies to act as slaves.

Here is a site that explains a little about what zombies are and then talks about what they are commonly mistaken with.