If It's Not the Bite that Does It, What's the Big Deal?
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As revealed in episode 2, infection isn't spread by a zombie bite... but then why does episode 3 throw this out? For example, the Macon girl is treated like a lost cause cos her leg was bitten. And then of course the biggest example being Duck suffering a small bite.
As revealed in episode 2, infection isn't spread by a zombie bite... but then why does episode 3 throw this out? For example, the Macon girl is treated like a lost cause cos her leg was bitten. And then of course the biggest example being Duck suffering a small bite.
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The bite is 100 percent lethal. If the bitten part can be amputated you can survive.
Unless you chop off the affected limb immediately.
Didn't you read the second sentence right after that?
I would agree with the previous posters that a bite is fatal and however you die you become a zombie, but then it would make me look like a hypocrite, considering what I just said above.
I can see how this would be confusing since the info comes from three different sources (the video game, the comics and the TV show). Let's just stick with the video game since the in game info provided is probably what we should be going by anyways.
1) If a person dies, for whatever reason, they reanimate as a walker. Unless, they died of massive head trauma like the Macon girl.
2) Reanimation happens pretty fast. How fast? Don't know....just fast.
3) If you get bit, you will get sick and die at a fast rate. Since you died...see item 1 above.
Hope this helps.
I don't see the question.
This..
Also I think it's not the "zombie" infection in the bite itself that kills at a fast rate because we're already infected in the game. Could be other infections considering walkers won't care for the virtues of proper mouth hygiene.
For example in the natural world the komodo dragon hunts this way. Their saliva contains all kinds of nasty micro organisms and they looooove rotten meat. Usually they'll just bite a couple of times, stalk their prey till it croaks due to a festering sickness and then they'll feast. Maybe walkers are a bit like komodo dragons in that way.
It varies. Duck lasted around 3 hours before he turned.
He edited his post while I was typing mine.
No.
Yeah...maybe...whatever is in a walker bite is fatal though in a short amount of time.
What Drbg is saying only applies to how long it takes to die from a walker bite. Once you die, you reanimate into a walker at a fast rate. How fast...unknown...just fast. If we knew, say reanimation after death occured in say 5 minutes, then maybe Kenny could have waited say 2 minutes to confirm Larry was dead...but we don't have this kind of info yet and it may not be true.
Well, he was bitten on his back. No way could that be separated from the body without killing him.
lol yea no way that could work