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Originally Posted by CJizzles
I re-watched season 1 the past two days off from work. And find it ironic that someone else just asked what Edwin Jenner said to Rick shortly before the CDC exploded.
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That whole CDC story line was only in the show- none of that is in the graphic novels. You won't find any more detail about that interaction.
However, there is talk in the Graphic novels that everyone is already infected and that it's only the death (any death other than the destruction of the brain) of humans that causes Zombies. Once a person becomes a zombie- they can kill the living with a toxic bite. So the infection causes Zombies upon death and the toxic bite causes death. In the comics there are more than one bitten characters who slowly die from the toxin. They don't immediately zombify- they die first then zombify.
The zombies do become limited in the books when they freeze, rot or starve. That's what causes the different classes of the zomies in the comics. Biters, Walkers, Crawlers, etc.