AMC's The Walking Dead

Exactly.
And could there be an effect from eating someone who has been bitten?
Clearly there is no effect from eating people, and all people are infected.
But bites and scratches are fatal, which in turn leads to turning. Could bites and scratches also transmit somehow by consumption?

Probably not but fun to consider.

Also, a lot of time went by between Bob's bite in the water and him losing his leg. It should've been too late for the amputation to save him.
Could be wrong, but in other instances they sure seemed clear that amputation had to happen immediately.

 

Yeah, Hershel's was done in a matter of minutes, right?

 

On a side note, did the church have a shower?
Because after plunging into a zombie-infested, flooded sewer of a basement (which itself could've been fatal, with all the bacteria that was swimming around in there), then walking a few miles in Georgia heat, the scavenging crew had to smell like a gorilla just took a curry-fueled shit on them.
I can't imagine the rest of the group willing to be in close quarters with those guys, let alone eat a meal, after all that.

 

We really aren't sure how much time has passed, are we? It could be just a matter of an hour or so.

Or, as much fun as this has been to talk about, maybe Bob wasn't bitten after all. I think they would have shown the bite, if that were true. Maybe he was just out back taking a break and reflecting on how much the world really has changed.

 

I thought of that, too, and I'm assuming they at least had access to water to wash themselves with. That said, I'm also sure these people are used to dealing with levels of stink that none of us could imagine.

 

Yeah, forget the zombies and the bad people, staph infections and giardia is what should be wiping everyone out.

 

Possible, but he certainly seemed to be saying some sort of goodbye before he went out there, though he didn't want to say it out loud. Maybe we're just reading things into it that were not there.

I really am curious how the bites and scratches are fatal if everybody already infected. Maybe something similar to the Ex-Heroes books. (For those that haven't read any of them, think Zombies in a world with superheroes.) The way they explain it, the virus that causes the dead to rise is not fatal, but the zombies themselves carry a tremendous amount of disease in their mouths and a bite dumps it all into the person's bloodstream and it overwhelms the immune system.

Edit: Kinda like what Buck posted, except it is more of a deadly mix of serious disease. To be fair, the show did deal with the idea of the human population getting sick and lacking proper treatment last season.

 

Maybe he wasn't bitten. But I sure think he was.

It took at least enough time for them to push those carts back to the church, when it was daylight, and then have dinner, and then for him to go outside, when it was dark out, and get jumped, and taken all the way back to the Termites camp, which has to be far away so the folks at the church don't see the fire, and for the leg to cook.

That's gotta be four-five hours.

 

Not to mention broken legs, accidents, muscle pulls, etc. Would love to see someone being chased by a pack of walkers and get eaten because they pull a hamstring.

 

I guess they dealt with it in the prison with people getting sick and dying.

But when they showed Tyrese and Carol filling the water bottles I thought: these people should all have giardia.

 

Might just be my new favorite SportsJournalists.com phrase.

 

That's better than what BobBQ said in the show which was something like "It smells like a sewer threw up."