So if an animal was bitten by a walker would it survive?
I was wondering if an animal would survive if it was simply bitten non-fatally by a walker. I know animals such as dogs won't come back so it leads me to wonder they won't get affected. However, maybe the bacteria in the walkers mouths may cause infections, I don't know.
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That's a very interesting question.
Isn't all the bacteria from the bite the thing that kills you? Its not the actually zombie virus itself, that come after you die. The bite isn't what makes you turn. People turn because they already have the virus, its already in their brain. "Everyone is infected"
So I do think the bite would kill an animal from all the bacteria.
I'm not sure, but I think they will be fine, as the virus seems to be 'specialised' on humans, and will only kill them.
But maybe it really just is a bacterium in the walker's body fluids. Then they would probably die too, as that would be some kind of super virus that kills everyone infected fluids touch.
it would die. I think that it was George a. Romero or/and Kirkman that said that the virus can kill them but doesn't turn them..... but theres a difference between both worlds, kirkman's world the zombies eat animals, and in Romero's they don't eat them, but I think he made a change.
I remember in the comic Shiva (the tiger) ate some of the walkers and didn't die, and Ezekiel remarked that whatever's inside them doesn't effect animals like humans. So I think it would probably survive.
HIV only affects humans so... Not too far fetched. (Monkeys have a different virus, simian immuodeficiency virus [SIV])
I heard on the news today, they are projecting to have a vaccine for ebola in two years. If they are similar then they should be able to make some sort of vaccine for HIV.
Where did you find that? I did a quick search, it looks like they aren't even in the same order of viruses, so there doesn't seem to be much biological link between them? Albeit it was wikipedia, but Ebola is listed under Order Mononegavirales Family Filoviridae and HIV as family Retroviridae.
I'm just gonna go with it'll die. Maybe from infection.
Well i think i saw it on fox news, i know don't hate me. They were interviewing the creators of Zmapp, and they were discussing a long term solution, i think they said there were doing animal trials, but in the next few years they will try giving it to the health care workers in Africa, then to dispense it to whoever needs it.
Medical Science is coming a long way, not like the days of civil war surgery.
SIV mutated into HIV when humans consumed infected monkeys, I've read.
I guess so. I was just thinking the vaccine for smallpox was effective because it was closely related to cowpox. The body needs related illnesses to develop antibodies; that's part of the reason why, despite advancing medicine, they're worries about bacterial/virus resistance to current drugs. I'm not sure though, this is just what I've heard here and there...
I'm a big supporter of Civil War Surgery.
Yes, it mutated given the proximity of the species (some say eating, some say cuts while hunting), either way, my point is that HIV is human specific, and so it wouldn't be irrational that zombinism be humans specific as well. Though maybe that too was caused by a monkey. A Sumatran Rat Monkey perhaps???
He ate Walkers? Wouldn't he still be sick from eating rotten meat?
This remind me of "I am Legend". That scene was so sad
I think that tigers can eat carrion...but I don't know, I'm just repeating what I remember from the comic.
No. Some animals are built to eat rotted flesh and Tigers can eat rotted flesh.
Huh, learn something new every day I guess.
No, Shiva in the comics was fine. It's not a single virus causing the infection since "Everyone is infected." It's a multitude of bacteria and viruses on a decayed person's teeth that's bitten and drawn blood from other humans, 'causing a big mixture of viruses and bacteria.
Some animals will be unaffected by the bacteria and most if not all animals will be unaffected by the viruses.
Actually in Kirkman's universe everyone is infected with the virus already, it's the mixture of bacteria and viruses on a corpse's teeth that kills you.
Since the video game and comics take place in the same universe, you have your answer here:
Tigers can eat decayed corpses, but not all animals can.
No animals cannot get infected, it only infects humans.
With Kirkman's "animal in a zombie world" logic in mind, I think if an animal is bitten and it survives, it'll grow weaker by the minute and die slowly (unfortunately
) but it won't come back to life as a zombie.
The animal will die from the bacteria, unless it's a species like the tiger that has adapted to eating decayed corpses. They won't turn though, the virus that makes them turn is specifically evolved for humans.
Ok, I'll play along.
And no.
From what I've seen on the show, it's only contagious to people.
What issues did this take place in?
no, it's in you just not in your blood
Well the bite kills you, an unknown "it" brings you back. My thought is they would die all the same as humans, but wouldn't come back.
I think maybe they would die, but not turn. Well in that case I'm hoping sam never came back.
Issue 115!
There have been no cases of zombified animals, I think the Zombie Virus has only been spread from human to human, there may even be a chance that some humans haven't even come into contact with the virus.