thenammagazine
Super Freak
Shut up. I wasn't good in health class ok lol. But I do no that the zombie corpse wouldn't last a day due to open infectious wounds,the ability not to breath, and no food source. Ill change my theory from a day to may e a month. Plus the government would probaly blow up the state the virus is on.
So if you change it from a day to a month (though I'd extend to more like 6 months to a year because decomp takes longer than that to start eroding the muscle tissues - and assuming the virus itself doesn't retard decomposition), if the infection is spread through bites, scratches, open wounds, blood, mucus, etc., so long as there are living, there is a food source. So imagine a virus, like the common cold, only contracting it is as easy as stepping out your front door and getting bitten or scratched, or even transferable by blood-eating insects, where the rate of infection is immeasurable given a single infected can spread it to more than one host and the sole goal of an infected individual is to spread it to any and all living humans until it either reaches the latter stages of decomposition or is exterminated. Though given the world will no longer have power, refrigeration,etc., many will die from murder, exposure, illness, malnutrition, contaminated water, etc. It's not a pretty world. Especially for a race as fragile as humans.