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I have a few questions about the walkers and the way they function and since I haven't seen a discussion dedicated to walker anatomy and behavior I decided to start one. Also, feel free to ask your own questions.
DISCLAIMER : I have not read the comics in depth so these questions might have been answered and I am unaware.
Anyways, my first question is about the walkers bite. If a walker bites a human, can that bitten human bite someone else and also cause them to turn into a walker?
Secondly, since cutting off a bitten limb stops someone from turning(assuming they survive amputation)can you in theory just cut around the bite without taking the whole limb?
And just a silly final question, if you are bitten by a zombie with dentures would you be ok?
Feel free to answer and ask questions.
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The bite doesn't turn you into a walker.
Everyone is infected, they just need to die to turn. The bite from a walker is riddled with germs and other bacteria as they are dead and that kills you slowly. Unless the human is very germ filled, the person they bit probably won't die unless they bit an important part of the body
Cutting around the bite may not work since the whole area is now infected by the bite and slowly spreads to the rest of the body. By the time you cut off the bite, the disease probably spread further which would have been already been handled if the limb was just chopped off.
Dentures, same as the previous, the dentures are in the germ filled decaying mouth. It is exposed to the bacteria and thus can kill you if the dentures can pierce through your flesh
Thanks for the response. So following up on the first answer, does that mean the whole "tainted meat" issue isn't that big a deal?
And also, if you had a corrosive material such as a strong acid and poured it into the affected bite, would this also not be enough to rid yourself of the bacteria?
The infection is not really infected type of tainted, its more of a brain kind of infection that causes your body to reanimate due to the death of the rest of the body.
Tainted meat is only tainted when the body is dying from the bite which the blood flows through with the bacteria. I assume you know about Mark, they kept him alive so he won't be tainted.
You might actually die from the acid way faster than the infection since the blood loss and contact of the acid will just eat through your body.
I'd just let my limb be chopped off rather than suffer from acid.
I actually have a question that has puzzled me for a while. During the end of season 1 before Lee died, a walker attacked Clementine and completely ignored Lee. However, since Lee was unable to move he would have been an easier kill for the walker. Instead the walker chose to go after Clementine.
Does this mean that the walker didn't try to go after Lee because Lee was "one of them" or close enough that he had some temporary camouflage? If you are bitten, is there a point right before you die that you become indistinguishable to a walker because you are about to become one yourself?
I have a follow up. If the walker bite doesn't infect but the germs do, then why does a fresh human turned walker bite still infect you?
Like if someone died, you give them CPR, and they bite you because they turned, why would that infect you?
And if the answer is because everyone's mouth is dirty that would mean that anyone can just bite you and you would turn, but obviously that's not the case. Is this just an overlooked issue?
Lee was not attacked during that sequence because before he went into the marsh house he fought a crap ton of walkers, covering himself with their smell provided by their guts, fooling the walkers. Walkers will always attack a living human regardless if they're bit or not, as presumably only the undead possess the iconic scent. Walkers don't attack each other.
That justs reminds me of fear the walking dead. The bites that affect your upper body affect you more than your lower body. Remember Lee got bit on the wrist so he had a lot of time before he turned. Mrs. Garcia got bit right on the face by a newly turned Rafa so he had no prior bite victims but since the face which is closest to the brain got bitten , you die faster since whatever blood near the brain is more likely to get infected.
Clementine was also covered in the walker guts though.
Clementine panicked and moved suddenly...sorta like when you hide from a T-rex...you are ok unless you move suddenly...if it moves fast...must be eaten.
Question. Has there ever been an instance where a freshly turned walker infected someone with a bite? There isn't a lot of bacteria if they've only been dead for a few minutes,so that wouldn't make a lot of sense.
EDIT: Rando asked a similar question and Sparkeagle gave an answer, but still.
In response to Piggs: The only freshly turned walker to bite someone else that I can recall is Javi's dad. However, his first victim was actually Hector, and he was bitten in the arm. We know that Hector probably died from the bite since he is not with Javi anymore.
This contradicts the idea that the bite doesn't "infect" you and the germs do. If that were true, Hector would be fine.
I have another question. Why does having a pet walker keep other walkers away? I recall that someone stated they usually travel in herds so wouldn't a pet walker just attract more of them? And what is it about holding a walker by a leash that makes you blend in? I thought walkers find people by scent which is why the guts strategy works.
Uh, no, I'm pretty sure she wasn't. It was that walker ignoring Lee to move on Clementine that gave Lee the idea to invent the walker gut trick.
Clementine was covered in walker guts...that's how they got out of the Marsh House. I am talking about the walker in the Jewelry store. Not the one in the hotel.
...You know what, that did confuse me a bit. What, does walker blood dry off really quick or somethin?
If I recall correctly, Michonne even explains this in the comics, stating that after awhile, her two pets realized they couldn't bite her, so they stopped trying to attack her. They were an effective disguise because other walkers in the area saw that they weren't attacking, so didn't think there was any reason to suspect Michonne was human.
Aw, so walkers function on peer pressure logic. Good to know.
Also, that's something I've been wondering about for a little while since Michonne apparently farmed with them, Roman used them as guard dogs, and the New Frontier is currently using them as attack drones.
Thanks for the answer. I wonder why not many people know about this. It's way better than having guts all over you.
I have another question I just thought of. Would covering yourself in the guts of a recently turned walker work the same?
I got one. Will we get to cut someones arm off in ANF? Also no one seems to get bitten anymore.
Because Lee was all green and rotten by then we was more walker then man.