If everyone is infected, why do zombie bites kill you?

[Toasty]

You're getting it right from the source when you get bit by the zombie.

[Siniistar]

I have a feeling its something extremely obvious that we're all over looking lol. I guess we'll have to wait to the end to really see for sure

[TWDFTW]

Originally Posted by JakeSt123

It's like an electronic thing that requires two batteries, I guess. One battery won't work without the other - the Infection won't work without the Bite, and possibly, the Bite won't work without the Infection.

Yeah Carley, one battery won't work without the other one....

[trd84]

Everyone is already infected but its dormant until you die. When a Zombie bites you it gives you an active infection.

[marcu5]

liken the bite to the bacteria inside of a komodo dragons mouth

[Eric Northman]

Originally Posted by Siniistar

if its just a virus(super duper bug : p) then eventually a vaccine will be found, as well as some people just possessing natural immunity, and idk if TWD is going to take that route at all

HIV has been going strong for decades with no vaccine. I think you overestimate how quickly we can create a vaccination. Immune cases (if any) were probably just ripped apart by the zombies and died that way.

[Eric Northman]

Originally Posted by marcu5

liken the bite to the bacteria inside of a komodo dragons mouth

I was thinking the same think, I almost wrote it myself, but when I looked it up I came across an article citing a study that showed it's actually a venom that the komodo dragon uses to kill its victims not bacteria.

[thestalkinghead]

Originally Posted by Eric Northman

I was thinking the same think, I almost wrote it myself, but when I looked it up I came across an article citing a study that showed it's actually a venom that the komodo dragon uses to kill its victims not bacteria.

the bacteria is still a big part of it's attack strategy

[marcu5]

Originally Posted by Eric Northman

I was thinking the same think, I almost wrote it myself, but when I looked it up I came across an article citing a study that showed it's actually a venom that the komodo dragon uses to kill its victims not bacteria.

good info

but the point is still the same. there's no real science behind the zombie bite, but we're led to believe it's the lethal 'venom' in a zombie bite that kills you.

[Tyrant]

Question -

If zombies biting you "accelerate" your infection.

Everybody is infected right?

What if non-zombie bit another non-zombie, and drew blood? Wouldn't that have the same effect?

[thestalkinghead]

Originally Posted by Tyrant

Question -

If zombies biting you "accelerate" your infection.

Everybody is infected right?

What if non-zombie bit another non-zombie, and drew blood? Wouldn't that have the same effect?

it doesn't accelerate it, mouths of living people are full of bacteria so if a person bites you, you would need antibiotics else you may develop sepsis because of your infected bite and you may die of blood poisoning and turn into a zombie, so its the same with zombies but i think the bacteria level in a zombies mouth is even more than a normal living human

[Siniistar]

it'd be crazy if the cure was just common penicillin to combat the bite infection and people have just been over-analyzing it in the mass panic

[Doctanian]

Plot convenience.

[trd84]

Originally Posted by Siniistar

it'd be crazy if the cure was just common penicillin to combat the bite infection and people have just been over-analyzing it in the mass panic

I doubt it. In the first hours of a ZA hospitals probably treat bites a number of ways. It just doesn't work.

[Grimfango]

I'd never thought about this. What a massive flaw. My entire walking dead world is crumbling around me!

[Gudmoore]

Fucking idiots, it has been covered more times than I care to remember. Use the search function instead of posting stupid, already answered questions.

Since you seem to be too retarded to navigate a forum, I'll make it as simple as possible. The bite doesn't spread the virus. Everyone is already infected. A zombie's mouth is a watering hole of bacteria, so if someone is bitten the bite gets infected; not with the zombie virus, like when a wound will get infected and leak puss but on a much more severe level. Then the body burns itself out fighting the bacteria and they die.

[rachellouise85]

Well, obviously you didn't get the fact that we're not talking about the dormant zombie virus. It /is/ pretty clear that it is the 'bite = death' aspect being discussed.

Originally Posted by trd84

I doubt it. In the first hours of a ZA hospitals probably treat bites a number of ways. It just doesn't work.

Yeah, I agree, a lot of people probably went to hospital when bitten and they started getting fever etc. most,if not all, of the common treatments would have been tried.

[Gudmoore]

And that is exactly what I was talking about.

"A zombie's mouth is a watering hole of bacteria, so if someone is bitten the bite gets infected; not with the zombie virus, like when a wound will get infected and leak puss but on a much more severe level. Then the body burns itself out fighting the bacteria and they die. "

Bacteria from a rotting carcases mouth is what "= death".

[rachellouise85]

Obviously. From the way you came in blasting about how the bite does not spread the virus, and started correcting everyone in such a rude manner, you totally got what we were talking about.

[Gudmoore]

Originally Posted by rachellouise85

Obviously. From the way you came in blasting about how the bite does not spread the virus, and started correcting everyone in such a rude manner, you totally got what we were talking about.

I know exactly what you were discussing. I was rude and will stay rude when people are too lazy to figure out how to use the damn search function.