Is walker blood the same as a bite?
So we know that the bite and scratches cause you to become ill to the point where you die so you can turn. The real question is, does getting walker blood cause this as well? The main reason why is because the answer will effect whether or not Sarita survives. If walker blood does not necessarily cause infection, she could survive if they get her out of the herd and stop the bleeding quickly and make sure she does not get any infections. However, if walker blood is the same as the bite, she will probably turn really fast.
The group all covered themselves up with walker blood, which could have been really dangerous if it is the same as a bite because they were all pretty beaten. If you help Kenny and get knocked down by Troy, Clementine's face is cut and she wipes blood on it. Not to mention Kenny, Luke, and even Carlos.
I am not sure if this was really covered before in TWD. What if you have a small cut or get walker blood under your nail, or something? Is it the same as a bite?
The group all covered themselves up with walker blood, which could have been really dangerous if it is the same as a bite because they were all pretty beaten. If you help Kenny and get knocked down by Troy, Clementine's face is cut and she wipes blood on it. Not to mention Kenny, Luke, and even Carlos.
I am not sure if this was really covered before in TWD. What if you have a small cut or get walker blood under your nail, or something? Is it the same as a bite?
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yea blood, saliva and bites all make you turn
...He doesn't die, just by saying ''using it against him'' doesn't mean they actually do it to him..
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If someone's blood ends up in your bloodstream, you'll surely die.
Rick...doesn´t die. He didn´t spoil much at all.
Yeah that makes sense that blood, saliva and bites all make you turn. I wonder is the other rule in tell-tale game is you turn no mater what, if you don't get hit in the head that just how you end up, was tell-tale make that up or is that in the comics too? :S
This makes me think of the time when Clementine got that pocket knife out of the Walker with the Dog in episode 1. She just wipes the remaining blood of the knife off her pants and somehow its completely clean after a couple of wipes. Wonder if the germs still on the knife would have any effect.
Maybe you should calm down, where did he say Rick died? He said they used this as a tactic against him. Nowhere in this did he say Rick was killed.
if the germs on her cloths its mostly fine if she had and cuts on her leg then yeah that's going to get infection.
Yeah, I know you made an account for this and all, but you should know respect is the number 1 rule of the forum and you haven't followed it for the first day you're here.
lol now you made yourself look stupid he never said rick died... in fact he spoiled nothing it is just a minor detail
I think they just gloss over that whole thing with Clem's cut. Let's do the same.
You seem to have not played episode 4 yet. I'll be quiet.
Pfft you are funny!
But the thing is she used the knife to open that can of beans. She didn't use it to eat the beans, but I just thought that since the can of beans seemed to be filled up to the top, then some of the germs could have gotten on the food. Just a little thing that got me thinking.
lol
oh yeah I see what you mean, its been awhile since I played series 2. yeah she could have gotten infected.
This thread came out before episode 4.
Yep, that was in the comics too. Actually, if I remember correct, there's nothing really special about walkers that make their bites make you turn.
It's actually because all the disease and shit in a rotting corpse's mouth kills you, and you turn.
Now there's one thing I'm wondering. This isn't necessarily for walkers, but if everybody in the universe is infected already, shouldn't Rick have gotten infected when biting out Joe's throat because he got his blood in his mouth? The same can be said for Philip biting off Merle's finger in Season 3.
I would think that people would also turn from scratches. What irks me is that we've seen characters being grabbed by walkers hard enough to scratch, or at least break skin, and every character has miraculously come out unscathed.:/
No. The 'virus' only activates after you die. That is why the St Johns kept their victims alive after all.
Only after death the blood and salvia becomes dangerous.
Walker bites and walker blood aren't the same thing, but they both kill you
thanks for telling me ^_^
I'm a bit confused about this... how do they turn very fast if they get bitten then?
Because the ones that bite them are dead/have the active virus and can infect them. Another theory is that it's simply the dangerous microbes in a dead mouth rather than a specific thing.
Keep in mind that noone knows for sure, other than the writers of the comics.
I don't think I have yet seen anything to show that walker blood has the effect of a bite. We've seen wounded people get covered in zombie blood over and over again and they don't get ill. They practically wallow in the stuff in the comics. In fact I think the very first suggestion was the plan to shoot Rick with walker remains and that didn't work so have we ever actually seen any instance of exposure to their blood causing illness? It seems it takes the bite to kill. Which is kind of oddly specific but there you go, it's fiction.
Considering they are dead corpses, I find it odd that disease and pestilence is not a more prominent topic in zombie media actually.
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Perhaps it's more to do with ingesting it or getting it on an open cut. But I wouldn't thought rubbing guts and putting walker blood on your skin would've been enough to do something since it would get absorbed into the skin if I'm correct. Even just being around dead bodies long enough could make you sick, but these rules don't apply in TWD from what I know.
We've seen a lot of battle shouty scenes with people covered in walker blood splats. If ingesting it could cause illness, I'm sure it would have been made into a plot point in the comics as it likely would have happened many times by now. They are not careful in the slightest when it comes to walker blood and entrails, only the bites. Maybe I'll have a flick through some issues tomorrow to see if there are any clear instances of blood getting into mouths or coming into contact with open wounds.
You're right - being around dead bodies would hardly be healthy. They'd also have a serious fly problem, I would have thought.
Ah. Beat me to it.
I need to be faster when mindlessly looking at forum posts XD