So if a zombie is fresh...
Could you still smear their blood on you and pass through a herd? I'm talking about they turned about 30 seconds ago fresh.
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Could you still smear their blood on you and pass through a herd? I'm talking about they turned about 30 seconds ago fresh.
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I don't see why that wouldn't work
Their insides probably stink regardless so probably?
Probably because it would still stink.
Would probably still work.
has there ever been a time in say the comics where they tried useing a long dead zombie i'm curious if it would still work.
My personal guess is that it would depend on how long it took them to turn. I don't know that its ever been specifically covered, but piecing together from what has been covered I don't think even ACTUAL walker Becca could've moved through a herd unscathed. Too fresh. She went from living to Walker in under sixty seconds and had no chance to putrefy. If whoever had already been dead 3-4 hours or longer before they turned, I think you're golden.
I would imagine the person would turn once their system has been infested with the virus/disease. Probably by then their blood would be a different stinky ass type.
I'll buy that. If the person died from the acute infection following Walker-to-human fluid transfer, I wouldn't be surprised if the tactic worked immediately. The victim may not even have to have actually turned in that case.
Then again, Jenner explains how the acute symptoms turn the brain necrotic, but he never mentions the effect on other systems. You'd think he might've if there were any.
Most likely.
If you died without getting bitten (example; bled out from being shot in the neck), then the infection will start to spread as soon as you die. It might take longer to turn, but it'll be fully in your blood/body by the time you reanimate.
I am absolutely 100% positive with complete unblinking unquestionable certainty that the answer is definitely "maybe."
I don't think so, because it's the disgusting stench of the walker blood that blends you in. To my knowledge, corpses don't typically start seriously stinking until a couple days after death.
Very likely yeah.
They all have the virus/disease already. The bite (walkers are dirty) just makes them sick and they die from fever.
"The acute version of the infection following Walker-to-human fluid transfer"
I'm kind of at a loss on how to be more abundantly clear that that's what I meant.
No, its not just that Walkers are dirty. There is an identical symptomology to the contagion. Everyone has the chronic and airborne mutation. Only Walkers and the bitten have the acute, bloodborne mutation.
If someone gets eating by walkers some thing makes them stop eatting shortly affter the victum dies or eles there would be nothing left tp 'walk' around
Or, its just gets people sick and they die.
Firstly, I'd like to apologize. For physiological reasons there's no reason to get into I've been having extraordinarily vivid dreams as of late. Last night's was beyond unpleasant and when I woke up and checked the boards I was rattled and in a sour headspace. As many times as we've found ourselves at odds recently, I regarded that as a reply to my post. Now I see that it wasn't. I stand by the clarification and likely would have still made it, but I wish I had done so with a cooler, clearer head and a less abrasive tone.
That said, No. Simply not the case. If that were true then "zombie bite disease" wouldn't manifest itself with such predictability. Sometimes the wound would go gangrenous, sometimes the victim would have blood poisoning, sometimes some other quantifiable medical complication might arise from an open wound's exposure to dead and decaying organic matter. The symptoms would vary and the mortality rate would never get anywhere close to total. Instead what we see is completely uniform symptomology and a mortality rate of 100.00%
Fair enough. Never gave that much thought on this matter.
I was just thinking that the walkers had certain kind of bacteria or other stuff in their system which would be harmful to humans, not necessarily a zombie virus, since bite victims actually die from fever.
I don't see how zombies have blood. sure I understand have they rioting flesh but blood cells need oxygen to remain to be alive. zombies don't breath. in other stories about them it shows them smell blood and that they find people to eat. so in those stories I understand that the zombies are breathing. but in tell-tale walking dead they hear by sound and attack. --yeah I am just going say this plot hole because it doesn't make any sense
but either way the smell of rioting flesh would mask people's smell so it would work.