I recall in the beginning of the show scratching by a walker was a means of infecting a human but it seems that was ditched over time?
Also with the amount of blood spurting after kills and their faces are covered in their blood, how are they not infected?! Ty!
TWD went a different direction than 28 days. The virus went airborne and infected all humans before the show. Any death that doesn't destroy the brain will result in resurrection as a walker.
The show seems to imply that bites cause infection that kill and scratches don't. In reality without antibiotics or soap, both would probably have a very high rate of infection that would kill you.
It's not in the comic source material that scratching is a way of spreading the virus, and we don't actually see anyone turn from scratches. Rick said the two officers had scratches on them, but this was before Jenner's statement was confirmed by Shane turning.
Scratching can still infect, it just doesn't happen.
The only way people can get infected is if the blood/saliva/anything biological gets into their bloodstream. If it gets in their face, they're not infected. It's not like 28 Days Later.
I dont think it matters because isnt everyone already infected? if something kills them they come back but a small scratch wont kill them so it doesnt matter??? lol. I think they threw all the zombie rules in and cant decide which one to use.
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This isn't the 2004 Dawn of the Dead movie. It takes a bite to infect you with an active version of the virus that will kill you if it can't be amputated. Everyone is already infected with the virus. Ooh, I'll try a herpes analogy. The virus lies dormant after initial infection (edit to clarify: which fan-theories have suggested water or airborne, or hey even both it's definitely not something you only catch by being near someone else breathing it out or isolation would have protected some people. Which I suppose might turn out later.). Then, when the brain dies, it reactivates and makes for the hindbrain in order to get the body moving again so that it doesn't die in its host.
None of them ever got infected through scratching, they just worried about it and checked after every tussle.