Yeah that's the cow. Am re-watching the series and just got past that point. Looking at it you may be right that it's simply dieing. The animatronics on it give it more of a lurching like motion that I haven't seen when a normal animal dies so I think it threw me off. Has most of it's guts spilt out and a large deep looking gouge on the neck. It's coat also lacks the lustre you see on a normal cows hide which is what I remember first time I saw it.
They are diseases that affect only humans; somebody mentioned HIV, only humans get it, and even our closest relatives chimps have a separate disease (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus). Of course that affects white blood cells, but a disease affecting only the human brain isn't a far cry. Humans have a more advanced frontal lobe, and the brain stem is the most primative part, but still, HIV only affects humans and plently other species have white blood cells. It might have something to do with the specific genetic makeup of human neurons. Although I'm sure we're overanalyzing this...
Yeah and to the fact that this will greatly reduce the source of food, I mean NO MORE BACON ...only vegetarians can survive the apocalypse if that happens...
There are a lot of viruses animals cant get from humans and a lot of really nasty ones humans cant get from animals. There are only a couple that are universal. Think the zombie virus is more like a human STD since STD's can pass through bites.
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Yeah that's the cow. Am re-watching the series and just got past that point. Looking at it you may be right that it's simply dieing. The animatronics on it give it more of a lurching like motion that I haven't seen when a normal animal dies so I think it threw me off. Has most of it's guts spilt out and a large deep looking gouge on the neck. It's coat also lacks the lustre you see on a normal cows hide which is what I remember first time I saw it.
They are diseases that affect only humans; somebody mentioned HIV, only humans get it, and even our closest relatives chimps have a separate disease (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus). Of course that affects white blood cells, but a disease affecting only the human brain isn't a far cry. Humans have a more advanced frontal lobe, and the brain stem is the most primative part, but still, HIV only affects humans and plently other species have white blood cells. It might have something to do with the specific genetic makeup of human neurons. Although I'm sure we're overanalyzing this...
If everything is infected? Then just eat up!
ZBLT anyone
There are a lot of viruses animals cant get from humans and a lot of really nasty ones humans cant get from animals. There are only a couple that are universal. Think the zombie virus is more like a human STD since STD's can pass through bites.
Animals don't turn, and can't get infected.
Simple innate misanthropy. Mankind wants to subconsciously destroy itself, and now it is.