maybe its a case of simply as the virus mutates and develops, it takes longer to actually infect / turn you. a virus's main ability to infect someone right away is key, but after constant mutation of 5 + months it might not be so quick as its focus hasn't been on spreading and just rapid growth, so as time goes on maybe and i stress maybe it takes longer to turn, Tommy got off some big chunks like he said but didn't get cleaned off, and the idea of heat and body sweat was actually inspired from an episode of stargate atlantis i saw a long time ago. its the one where they first find the Aratis bug and its latched onto Sheppard (if you've seen the show, you know what I'm talking about, if not i suggest you check it out)

but metal poisoning makes sense, when a bullet impacts something it fragments, i believe even 9mm rounds fragment inside the human body, now despite being a good shot with a gun that doesn't make me any sort of expert.

the rate of infection to a new person vs how long someone has been infected for to me makes some sort of sense, besides i think its only instant turning if basically you have a low iron count in your blood, for example.... right at the very start, Riley and Pegs either it was both of them or just one of them (in that case i think it's Riley) recall them..... now I've not exactly listened to it but they were "throwing up blood on people" and they would turn right away, when Pegs got scratched by zombie kitty it was something like less then 40 seconds approximately that they were talking before they were like "no it would of happened by now" (again not listened to it, I'm not exactly gonna sit there and watch the seconds tick over in my Itunes and time the conversation)

but to go and compare everyone who's been infected and how they turn and all that is one hell of a thing, and you know what I'll honestly do it, if someone can tell me when people turn, aka what chapters and what part of those chapters, i'll give it a listen. Witch_Doctor you've given some examples if you tell me what parts (I'm going away for the weekend) I'll listen more closely when i get back and come up with some kind of analysis.

but i do think the longer one of "them" has been infected for causes a great mutation, initially it happened in seconds, but i don't remember what the chapter is called, the soldier from the helicopter who got turned, didn't turn till they were close to the military base, and again, not entirely sure, according to Micheal the flight was a few hours.

given how strong that was, mutation is high so the need to reproduce is low. so it means such a powerful mutation would need to re-adapt to the new host effectively reverting sort of like a jelly fish to a previous point and then infecting the host and then mutating all over again.


OH and thinking about it, Tommy must of had some if not on his cut but in his eyes or nose or somewhere else on his body, I'll admit its easier to say it got in through his cut, but he didn't get washed off, he was clothed and the sickness isn't passable through skin as we found out early on, so its really sort of blood contact only. or injury based of some kind.


Witch_Doctor given you've responded, what do you think of that?