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Judith **Comic book and Season 4 Episode 8 SPOILERS**

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  • #52
    LOSTfan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 682 ✭✭✭LOSTfan57


    username123 wrote: »
    It certainly has gone quiet from your side. I am still waiting for you to enlighten me as to what the point of the show is? Youve avoided answering twice now, cmon, out with it, Im expecting some magical pearl of wisdom that will illuminate me and dispel the fog through which I have been watching!
    sorry I've other work to be doing and cant just teach you about a show youve apparently watched. Actually arent you the same guy who thought there was a secret scientist among the group? Anyway when I'm done with work I'll probably try to explain but reading previous postings I cant help but think it will be futile


  • #53
    username123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭username123


    Paddy Cow wrote: »
    So how else could a zombie bite infect someone if not through the blood?

    In TWD being bitten does not cause you to be infected with zombie virus. The problem is that the rotting zeds have mouths full of nasty bacteria so any bite not only turns into an infected mess in a world without access to antibiotics or proper medical care but gets the bacteria into the bloodstream through the open wound. They chopped off Herschels leg to prevent this bacteria from entering the bloodstream and causing blood poisoning.

    Thats my understanding of why youre a goner after a bite anyway.

    I like your theory re newborns not being infected. I also agree that an airborne virus probably has a particular life span so it may well be possible that new borns are not passed the virus through gestation and then dont encounter it in the air when they are born.


  • #54
    username123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭username123


    LOSTfan57 wrote: »
    sorry I've other work to be doing and cant just teach you about a show youve apparently watched. Actually arent you the same guy who thought there was a secret scientist among the group? Anyway when I'm done with work I'll probably try to explain but reading previous postings I cant help but think it will be futile

    Nah, youre alright, I dont believe for a minute you have anything worthwhile to say and given your attitude in the above post - just dont bother replying to anything I post again thanks.


  • #55
    LOSTfan57
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 682 ✭✭✭LOSTfan57


    username123 wrote: »
    Nah, youre alright, I dont believe for a minute you have anything worthwhile to say and given your attitude in the above post - just dont bother replying to anything I post again thanks.

    Fair enough mate. And regarding attitude you're the one who tried being condescending first! No hard feeling tho :) I respond to anything I see so I will prob reply to you again because I will forget about this unless I get called out again :)


  • #56
    smcgiff
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,943 ✭✭✭smcgiff


    username123 wrote: »
    In TWD being bitten does not cause you to be infected with zombie virus. The problem is that the rotting zeds have mouths full of nasty bacteria so any bite not only turns into an infected mess in a world without access to antibiotics or proper medical care but gets the bacteria into the bloodstream through the open wound. They chopped off Herschels leg to prevent this bacteria from entering the bloodstream and causing blood poisoning.

    Thats my understanding of why youre a goner after a bite anyway.

    I like your theory re newborns not being infected. I also agree that an airborne virus probably has a particular life span so it may well be possible that new borns are not passed the virus through gestation and then dont encounter it in the air when they are born.

    Yeah, they've said it on the programme that bites don't cause someone to turn. But they are fatal, and those bitten then turn because they are infected.

    So, the virus is active, and in a lot of cases viruses transfer to babies in the womb. It's unlikely, even if initially airborne that all babies born to the infected would escape being infected.


  • #57
    username123
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,484 ✭✭✭username123


    smcgiff wrote: »
    Yeah, they've said it on the programme that bites don't cause someone to turn. But they are fatal, and those bitten then turn because they are infected.

    So, the virus is active, and in a lot of cases viruses transfer to babies in the womb. It's unlikely, even if initially airborne that all babies born to the infected would escape being infected.

    Yes, but there are cases where airborne viruses do not cross the placenta - flu is one of them. So theres a chance.

    Also, some viruses that cross the placenta have a different effect on the baby than on the mother. Some cause birth defects as opposed to infecting the baby with the adult version of the disease - an example being chicken pox.

    So even if the virus passes to the baby, it could do something completely different than render them zombiefied.


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