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Old 11-21-2012, 01:55 PM   #3109
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Originally Posted by kaplin42 View Post
The human mouth has more bacteria in it than most animals, and is one of the dirtiest places on the human body. Now, take the filth hole, and fill it with owners own rotting, decaying flesh, plus the rotting and decaying flesh of whatever or whoever they have eaten since they turned to zombies and then let that all stew for days/months.

Basically you get a nasty infection that will end up killing you. The reason they cut off Hershel's leg was to stop that infection before it has time to spread.

Bites do not transmit the zombie virus, but they do transmit disease and infection. At least in the WD Universe.
I don't buy that at all. If it were just a run of the mill infection, they could just cleanse the wound and prevent the infection. They have antibiotics. They have alcohol. The chances of him dying from a run of the mill bite (from a decaying corpse or not) is no greater than him contracting an infection from having his freaking leg cut off. The zombie bite appears to cause inevitable death (from what we've seen), and an infection would not be inevitable death.

There is something extra in a zombie bite beyond just standard bacteria from a rotting corpse.
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