There is no Virus in the Walking Dead
There is no Virus in the Walking Dead be it(comics, Videos games, or Tv series)
According to the CDC's Dr. Edwin Jenner in the TV series, a corpse can reanimate between three minutes and eight hours after death. It was also once hinted by executive producer Glen Mazzara that the time it takes for a corpse to reanimate depends on how full of life the person was before they died.
Interestingly, during the second season of the TV series, as the group is stopped on the highway there are multiple dead and decayed bodies that have not reanimated. Kirkman states the reason for this is because the passengers all suffered brain trauma from the car crashes.
Robert Kirkman wrote:The rule is: WHATEVER it is that causes the zombies, is something everyone already has. If you stub your toe, get an infection and die, you turn into a zombie, UNLESS your brain is damaged. If someone shoots you in the head and you die, you're dead. A zombie bite kills you because of infection, or blood loss, not because of the zombie "virus."
The most common way that people become a zombie is after dying from infection caused by a zombie bite.
Symptoms of a zombie bite:Edit
Lethal fever
Chills
Hallucinations
Vomiting
Pale skin
Delirium
Sensitive bones (e.g. Jim in the TV Series episode, "Wildfire")
Exchange of fluids
While there is no zombie "virus" spread through bites, zombie bites cause lethal infections. Thus, a person can become a zombie from dying of any cause other than brain damage.
According to the CDC's Dr. Edwin Jenner in the TV series, a corpse can reanimate between three minutes and eight hours after death. It was also once hinted by executive producer Glen Mazzara that the time it takes for a corpse to reanimate depends on how full of life the person was before they died.
Interestingly, during the second season of the TV series, as the group is stopped on the highway there are multiple dead and decayed bodies that have not reanimated. Kirkman states the reason for this is because the passengers all suffered brain trauma from the car crashes.
Robert Kirkman wrote:The rule is: WHATEVER it is that causes the zombies, is something everyone already has. If you stub your toe, get an infection and die, you turn into a zombie, UNLESS your brain is damaged. If someone shoots you in the head and you die, you're dead. A zombie bite kills you because of infection, or blood loss, not because of the zombie "virus."
The most common way that people become a zombie is after dying from infection caused by a zombie bite.
Symptoms of a zombie bite:Edit
Lethal fever
Chills
Hallucinations
Vomiting
Pale skin
Delirium
Sensitive bones (e.g. Jim in the TV Series episode, "Wildfire")
Exchange of fluids
While there is no zombie "virus" spread through bites, zombie bites cause lethal infections. Thus, a person can become a zombie from dying of any cause other than brain damage.