The Walking Dead - TV Series on AMC ( Comic and Un-aired Spoilers unwelcome!)

[Michael Crawford]

Characters are constantly coming into contact with zombie blood without getting sepsis, what would be unique about a bite?

Think rabies, a virus only transmitted through saliva.

 

[Centurion]

Even when you're trying to survive the apocalypse, there's always time for:

 

[cilantropants]

Every time someone over-thinks fantasy, a unicorn is defiled by pixies.

 

[mikedanger]

Forget evolving viruses.

I want these walkers to be a little smarter, especially the fresher ones. I'm not saying they should be able to play Beethoven's Sonata #29, Hammerklavier, but a little more problem solving skills would be nice. Also, how about some more sounds for them other than that "grrrr, rarrrrrr gahhh".

Weren't they using rocks to try to bash in a window early in season 1?

 

[Mr. Green]

Forget evolving viruses.

I want these walkers to be a little smarter, especially the fresher ones. I'm not saying they should be able to play Beethoven's Sonata #29, Hammerklavier, but a little more problem solving skills would be nice. Also, how about some more sounds for them other than that "grrrr, rarrrrrr gahhh".

yea, yea, like "grrr, I will eat u!, Gahhh, grr alive!"

 

[Henry Morgan*]

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Someone tell that guy the 80's are over

Assuming this is a bio-engineered virus, I'd assume there are two. You infect a population that will have a higher than average rate of death - let's say at a hospital - with both virus' at once. Neither virus 'activates' until death. One re-animates the dead. The other is lethal to living humans. Of course, it could be one virus that does both, but I lean toward two, where each one is very specifically engineered to do a single task.

Since everyone is infected, and the walker virus lays dormant until the host dies, what about the virus that kills? Is that effect/second virus also dormant? Or when Rick bit the guy in the throat, had he lived, would he have died from the bite?

Could be different strains of the same virus

Or maybe when the body reacts to a wound, maybe that reaction could activate the virus

 

[Merle's Right Hand]

Think rabies, a virus only transmitted through saliva.

There are bacteria that are spread by saliva only, but what about the bacteria changes due to a person dying?

People can be killed by a zombie bite immediately after a person turns.

That's why I think it makes the most sense that it is an altered form of the virus that kills people.

 

[Merle's Right Hand]

Weren't they using rocks to try to bash in a window early in season 1?

Which is probably one of the reasons why Kirkland and Darabont didn't get along.

 

[Merle's Right Hand]

I read this with Eugene's southern accent. It actually sounds like something he would say. Awesome!

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[Mr. Green]

dunno but they already have virus that turn people at their prime into zombies last season. and they're not even bitten. they won't have much people left to film the show if we have virus that kill all human, in all ages.

 

[The Ween]

Could it simply be that IF Bob was bitten, and he was bitten on the leg or ankle, that it would take longer for him to show symptoms? Walkers tend to go for the upper torso or neck, so maybe it takes a longer time for the virus to get to the brain then?

Or maybe Bob's innerds are pickled from all that drinking and it takes longer for the virus to work.

 

[Mister Ski]

When did Dr Oz join the forum???

 

[Mr. Green]

virus doesn't discriminate....Dr Oz is on the menu too! hehe

 

[Darth Snoopy]

Or maybe Bob's innerds are pickled from all that drinking and it takes longer for the virus to work.

 

[Mr. EcKo]

Bob was attacked from the soggy Walker under the water , so if he was bit then it woulda been on his lower body because the walker was submerged when it attacked

 

[cilantropants]

Or maybe Bob's innerds are pickled from all that drinking and it takes longer for the virus to work.

At the very least, it's the reason he tastes so good to Gareth. Bob's been marinating himself for a long time. I think the next time I do some meat in the smoker I'll soak it in wine, rum, bourbon, vodka, gin, brandy, whiskey, tequila, and beer for about a month first.

 

[toylion]

 

[toylion]

 

[Mr. Green]

At least Gareth got good taste - Bob's left leg

 

[Darth Snoopy]

At least Gareth got good taste - Bob's left leg