Quote:True, but so far everyone who has been bitten eventually died except for Herschel. I've often wondered if they died from the virus, or just from the damage from the bite. As you noted, anyone that dies turns.

 

The whole "everyone has it already" deal changes the entire traditional zombie genre here. Since everyone who gets a bite dies within a few days at most there must be something yet unrevealed that does the killing (ex Jim, Bob) and Ty dies way too fast for it to have been the bite damage. T-Dogg lived with a similar arm injury for a while with just some anti-biotics and a sewing thread. It can't just be virus or whatever it is, there has to be some type of reaction to the bite of the dead, but that just screams "vampires" to me and takes away from the story, unless they come up with something really good to explain it.

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