Chapter 28- Last Dying Breath Part 3

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Originally Posted by UndeadSweeper

Don't think the blood contact will always turn you. How about went our heroes were in arena and was stuck in pile of bodies? I would guess that some of the virus should have been on some the bodies. But they didn't turn. Nor when Datu was carry by the Z. It look to be only only to after affect certain people.

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A couple of posts back I tried to rationalize how it could have occured but I was rather long winded, as Osiris pointed out. ; )

Basically I was thinking that because the zombies intended to eat the people they brought in to the arena, they did not infect them or taint the meat. I know that they were piling some of their own dead outside the arena, but it seemed like the ones in the pile that Riley and Angel climbed in was full of human corpses that hadn't turned. I don't think Datu had direct contact with the blood, at least none that was introduced into his blood stream.

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Originally Posted by UndeadSweeper

Don't think the blood contact will always turn you. How about went our heroes were in arena and was stuck in pile of bodies? I would guess that some of the virus should have been on some the bodies. But they didn't turn. Nor when Datu was carry by the Z. It look to be only only to after affect certain people.

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Unless the virus itself was dead within the cells of the bodies in the pile. Perhaps the virus requires the host to have a 'lifeforce' to feed upon and without it... le dead.

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Originally Posted by Adventureless_Hero

A couple of posts back I tried to rationalize how it could have occured but I was rather long winded, as Osiris pointed out. ; )

Basically I was thinking that because the zombies intended to eat the people they brought in to the arena, they did not infect them or taint the meat. I know that they were piling some of their own dead outside the arena, but it seemed like the ones in the pile that Riley and Angel climbed in was full of human corpses that hadn't turned. I don't think Datu had direct contact with the blood, at least none that was introduced into his blood stream.

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Still not as long as most of my tirades.

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Originally Posted by Adventureless_Hero

A couple of posts back I tried to rationalize how it could have occured but I was rather long winded, as Osiris pointed out. ; )

Basically I was thinking that because the zombies intended to eat the people they brought in to the arena, they did not infect them or taint the meat. I know that they were piling some of their own dead outside the arena, but it seemed like the ones in the pile that Riley and Angel climbed in was full of human corpses that hadn't turned. I don't think Datu had direct contact with the blood, at least none that was introduced into his blood stream.

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But the gases is airborne so the virus would need to be able to survive without a host for sometime too. So an Arena fill to the rim with zombies would be filled with the virus too right?

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Originally Posted by UndeadSweeper

But the gases is airborne so the virus would need to be able to survive without a host for sometime too. So an Arena fill to the rim with zombies would be filled with the virus too right?

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Adventureless_Hero tapped the side of his nose, knowingly. "Ah, right indeed."

Seriously thought, that is a good point to ponder. I'm not sure if we'll ever get a complete understanding of the zombie virus. What if the Haze is airborn, but once it is introduced to the host it only can be transmit via bodily fluids?

Also I was also think ground zero should been fill with massive amount of bodies if all who came in contact with the gases died. But from the sound of it, it look to be they only saw a couple of bodies there. So I think some may of turn and walk out. So certain people are affect come back again.

One more note: Why is the Haze still around? It was a bomb or canisters should the haze dissolute after some time? On something deep in the Earth would be able to hold up a constant stream like this.

Don't you guys start bringing that that T-virus stuff... I might need an umbrella to protect myself from that one.

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Originally Posted by Osiris

Unless the virus itself was dead within the cells of the bodies in the pile. Perhaps the virus requires the host to have a 'lifeforce' to feed upon and without it... le dead.

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Most virus are very fragile and don't survive long outside the human body. Have you considered that as a reason for why some of the bodies didn't turn and some did was that like "normal" virus that some people are naturally immune? Maybe its the same for this virus which is why some become meat and some become more zombies?

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Originally Posted by Adventureless_Hero

Adventureless_Hero tapped the side of his nose, knowingly. "Ah, right indeed."

Seriously thought, that is a good point to ponder. I'm not sure if we'll ever get a complete understanding of the zombie virus. What if the Haze is airborn, but once it is introduced to the host it only can be transmit via bodily fluids?

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If the haze wasn't airborn I don't think we would see it lingering as a 'haze in the air'...

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Originally Posted by Osiris

If the haze wasn't airborn I don't think we would see it lingering as a 'haze in the air'...

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It could be a spore type thing. Oh man, I remember ages ago, I posted something about that zombie fungi that was infecting ant brains. ewww, google zombie fungus and you'll see images of it on ant heads. Anyway, what if the haze is a type of spore. There is a giant plant living in the Earth....bah! I'm done with this for today. :P