Chapter 28- Last Dying Breath Part 3

[Adventureless_Hero]

This is a blast from the past, how did all the people being dragged back to the arena never turn. They were really dragged on the floor without getting scratched. There had to be blood or other zombie juices all over the floor. I just found that hard to believe. If I remember correctly, Tommy was the only person that turned while we were present.

I have often wondered this too. In the scene where Riley and Angel were immersed in a mountain of rotting flesh at the arena I wondered how it was that they didn't catch any kind of infection, especially when Riley got rotting filth in her eye. I'm thinking two things are happening; 1)somehow, the corpses that are being used as food for the zeds are not turning. Could it have somthing to do with how Riley noticed the zeds were drooling like dogs when they smelled sweat? Do they emit a zombie venom of sorts? It would mean they could turn you when they want rather than whenever you contact them. 2) the zombie virus exists in the zeds blood itself. So even if a zed doesn't bite you with a venomous bite, his blood gets in you and you contract the infection, like tommy did. If the corpses at the arena that Riley and Angel were buried in were victims of the zeds, they could have been infection free based on my notion that zeds emit venomous bites only when they want to turn you.

So a zombie bites you with it's drooling bite and you contract the virus. But maybe he can turn off his virus spreading capabilities? It's a stretch. But contact with zombie blood will most likely turn you 100% of the time. The corpses at the arena were human victims who were infection free, while the corpses outside the arena were infected.