Timeline for Why are Walker bites in the Walking Dead fatal?
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| Apr 4, 2014 at 21:03 | comment | added | SA295 | True. Another option could be that the unique body chemistry of the survivors causes the zombie infection to act very similarly to HIV, dramatically lowering the immune system but stopping short of killing them directly, making a zombie bite just an incidental exposure to whatever terrible diseases are thriving in that filthy, moist environment. That could also explain the mortality rate of that plague that spread so quickly among everyone at the prison. Maybe it wasn't a crazy super flu, maybe it was just a cold... | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 23:52 | comment | added | Andres F. | I like how you think, but at this stage we've seen characters almost bathed in walker blood who don't turn. Michonne at one point has a badly patched stomach wound while being covered in walker blood, and she doesn't turn. Compare this with real-life HIV transmission, with health care workers warned to use gloves and not to let skin scratches get in contact with infected blood. | |
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| Apr 3, 2014 at 23:02 | history | answered | SA295 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |