Could this prevent someone turning?
Alright let's say you're with a group of survivors and one of them gets bitten on the arm. Now this group has tons of medical supplies, two doctors with them and great defense so they have time and resources. He gets bitten after a walker is inside the base, the walker is killed as soon as it bites the survivor. The doctors take them in.
Now would it work if you cleaned out the wound immeadiatly, with all sorts and keep the person on antibiotics over several hours.
It's been made clear by Kirkman himself, that it's not the infection that kills you, it's the dirt, grime and unhealthy aspects of a walkers mouth that kills you and you turn because when you die that's when the infection works. So if we cleaned out the dirt grime and grime and such within that person quick enough, would it stop them from dying? And thus stop them from becoming a walker?
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No! The arm must be "removed" immediately.
If I was bitten in the arm, I wouldn't even try that.
Just amputate, with all the medical supplies and doctors I know I would survive it. Why should I risk dying?
Whilst I appreciate the comment, the question wasn't what you would do, that scenario with the doctors and such is just a framework. I am asking whether you think, that cleaning the wound would prevent infection.
Seems to me like this group doesn't have such great defenses if a walker was able to get in and bite someone. As for the question, I don't know. It seems plausible, because like you said, it's not the bite itself that kills you; it's the bacteria. Until we see it happen in the comics, show, or game, I really think all that can be done is speculate.
Probably depends on whether it hits a blood vessel, the person's health, the strains of bacteria and quality of the drugs.
Ooh! Gunab. Could you make ummm a one-armed Clementine. I want to see what it would look like (NOOO I don't want Clem to lose any ligaments ever! I'm just curious.)
It'd probably depends on how deep the bite was. If it was a scratch it might work since it's not too deep.
You have to remove it because its in your bloodstream unless they are gonna personally clean out your blood so theres no other way but amputate.
Yeah that's understandable.
I would never do that to Clem!
Ignore this. Stupid phone -_-
no dude because in the comics one of the characters from alexandria (i forgot his name) got slashed by one of negans guys with the walker blood infected machete, and they cleaned out the guys wound and still died.
I know what you're saying makes sense, but ZA don't make sense. If you consider that there was once perfect medical care, and I doubt anyone wouldn't go to a hospital after getting frickin' bitten by someone, then the ZA would've been pretty much averted if it were true. I consider the zombie infection to be supernatural precisely because things like this don't help. If you're bitten, you're fucked. Hell, you should thank God that Kirkman allows you to live if you chop the limb!