[Ep. 3 - Spoilers] What was ***** dying of?
What was Duck dying of?
It wasn't "the walker virus", right? Everyone is already infected with that.
So it was just an ordinary infection you'd get if a bite wound comes in contact with a corpse's mouth. I doubt it was rabies. Apparently corpses often spread hepatitis B and hepatitis C, HIV, enteric intestinal pathogens, tuberculosis, cholera and others. Of these TB seems the most likely, it's unlikely duck was vaccinated against it, and it has similar symptom to what was displayed. If it were TB then Duck could of been treated by a long regime of anti-biotics. TB has a 50% fatality rate so although likely duck's death wasn't certain, if they'd have found some medicine he could've had a chance. Although if it were TB why didn't Kaatja realise? Shock maybe?
Thoughts? Other Ideas as to what it may have been?
It wasn't "the walker virus", right? Everyone is already infected with that.
So it was just an ordinary infection you'd get if a bite wound comes in contact with a corpse's mouth. I doubt it was rabies. Apparently corpses often spread hepatitis B and hepatitis C, HIV, enteric intestinal pathogens, tuberculosis, cholera and others. Of these TB seems the most likely, it's unlikely duck was vaccinated against it, and it has similar symptom to what was displayed. If it were TB then Duck could of been treated by a long regime of anti-biotics. TB has a 50% fatality rate so although likely duck's death wasn't certain, if they'd have found some medicine he could've had a chance. Although if it were TB why didn't Kaatja realise? Shock maybe?
Thoughts? Other Ideas as to what it may have been?
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this thread is about Duck not Ben
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Because he was bitten in the stomach, or side... or back, some place on the abdominal region.
To the OP, it's like a Komoto dragon bite, walker's mouths are filled with necrotic flesh and bacteria and cause a high end infection and basically poison the person bitten, which leads to fever and death.
Where was the bite exactly? I didn't think it was lower extremity. That band teacher died of a lower leg amputation, though you did chop it off with an axe, so there's that.
bad joke; hence the /run
He was actally bitten in his side, the abdominal region. It'd be pretty hard to amputate his torso, but we could always try.
I don't know he was coughing up blood meaning lung problems unlikely from plain poisonedness, and no vomiting, if his body thought he was poisoned there's no way he would've held those animal crackers down.
The Komodo bite is a very specificity engineer gob full poisonous bacteria, this was just a rotten human mouth.
Anyone who is bitten DIES. This is a rule in zombie lore. There has never been a movie where a person who has been bitten lives. (Not counting Night of the Living Dead 30th Anniversary edition since that is crap)
So the minute Duck was bitten, he was as good as dead.
That seems very arm-wavey. I'm not really here for an "A wizard did it" explanation.
Not true, if you amputate the wound you can save people with a 50% success. Read the comic.
I think Duck had something specific that wasn't diagnosed or cured because there wasn't anything around for her to use. A doctor's only as good as their instruments.
You can't amputate an abdomen.