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"What we wondered for the longest time was, once they found out they all were infected then did it matter if they got bit or not? Theoretically it shouldn't "turn" them until they died anyway, right?"
And the answer is no. Everyone is going to be a zombie, they will turn rather they are bitten or not. It's a matter of the person dying and the infection activating in their system. The bit itself somehow activates the zombie infection. If the person did not die initially the infection causes a intense fever that kills the person. After they are dead, the zombie infection then reactivates the brain stem and they wake as the walking dead.
What it appears to me is that once they are a zombie they are a threat because they attack and if you are bitten or scratched by one the infection is activated. Also because when a zombie attacks they savagely rip apart the body to consume it. This definitely kills the person form the loss of blood and the consumption of their body. But since everyone is infected everyone will become a zombie unless they are shot in the brain. My question, however, is why is it that after the zombies consume a person, if they don't consume the brain, that the corps does not become a zombie as well? Isn't it the brain what they must destroy in order to kill the zombie?
I pose these questions to you. I will post my thoughts once the conversation is started. So what do you think?
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Frank Darabont. (2010-2013). Season 1 Episode 1-6 [The Walking Dead]. Gale Anne Hurd. Atlanta, GA: Stargate Studios.
Frank Darabont. (2010-2013). Season 1 Episode 1-6 [The Walking Dead]. Gale Anne Hurd. Atlanta, GA: Stargate Studios.
Yea, I wonder if they get bit by a zombie but not bad enough to die, do they still turn immediately into a zombie? Considering everyone is already infected? I feel like the show hasn't answered this yet.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about this, and actually they have answered it in season one. Morgan's wife and Jim were both bitten but not bad enough to die right away, however, once bitten the person gets a fever that is so sever as Morgan put it "It burns them out" and they die from it. Once you are dead the infection brings the central part of the brain back and they become the walking dead.
DeleteFrank Darabont. (2010-2013). Season 1 Episode 1-6 [AMC's The Walking Dead]. Gale Anne Hurd. Atlanta, GA: Stargate Studios.
True. I had forgotten about that. I wonder though, if that was prior to the whole world becoming infected? And I also wonder how exactly it was transmitted if not through a bite? I will probably need to rewatch the episode where they were at the CDC to get a refresher on some of the science behind it.
ReplyDelete_tabstone, I reviewed the episode at the CDC and this is what I learned: When Dr. Edwin Jenner invited them into the CDC he said the price of admittance was a blood test. From what I can tell he was curious if everyone was truly infected, and I think more hopeful that they weren't. When Rick asked how the blood test came out Jenner rather matter of fact and I think disappointed said "No surprises." This is because he already knew that everyone was infected. About your first question, about if being bitten and the fever was only prior to the whole world being infected, I don't think that changed, and it is still relevant. I think this because the information that Jenner had was more than one month old and Jim and Morgan's wife had been bitten after Jenner had gained that knowledge both had obtained the fever just from being bitten. The initial transmission still remains a mystery. Jenner stated that they aren't sure if the infection is microbial, parasitic, fungal, viral or just the wrath of God. According to Jenner the French were close to figuring it out but lost their power grid and all was lost.
DeleteJenner does go through the phases of turning after being bit. He first showed the normal brain with synopsis firing and fully functioning making a person who they are from what they think, say, and do from birth to death. Then when the infection takes over the adrenal glands hemorrhage, the brain goes into shutdown and then the major organs shutdown and finally death. Upon the second event or resurrection (time ranging from 3 minutes to 8 hours) only the brain stem reactivates this gets the body up and moving but is just a shell with "mindless instincts". The actual person, the frontal lobe, does not come back and they are not alive. By the end of the episode Jenner tries to get the group to stay with him because there "is no hope" I believe this is because he knows everyone is infected and there is no one left to find a cure. He ends the episode by telling Rick that everyone is infected. They don't really answer your question, maybe it is something that we will learn as the show develops. What do you think?
Frank Darabont. (2010-2013). Season 1 Episode 6 [AMC's The Walking Dead]. Gale Anne Hurd. Atlanta, GA: Stargate Studios.