OMG, did Rick cut his hand and got walker blood in it? I guess he'll have to put the machete to use once again

 

That is just plain stupid if it is that way. Im pretty sure they been taking baths in walker blood by now.

 

That's one thing that will kind of bother me if a certain someone introduces the super space aged zombie bacteria weapons.

 

Any international friendly link to the sneak peek?

 

i think he will be fine. didn't Abe get hit by Rick's weapon with walker blood on it?

 

I don't see how they can possibly include that now. They kill food with the same weapons they use to kill Walkers. Abe has gotten cut with an infected weapons, and he's not the first. Rick practically took a bath in it last season--he had to have swallowed some.

 

Looks like Rick will make it back before the others. He makes it to the RV. Everyone else scattering and trying to avoid the dispersed heard much as possible.

(Glenn and Dickolas find themselves in cornered. It seems maybe R.I.P. Dickolas YEAH!!!)

This would come from the extended comic con promo from Summer where they're running down an alley to a dumpster. Numerous 100's walkers chasing them.

 

Do you have a link to that promo?

 

It's not the blood (or bite) that turns people.. it's the death by infection. Apparently walker mouths are really toxic in a way their blood and nails aren't. Maybe a special Antibiotic Resistant, Amylase-Philic bacteria live in walker mouths. Since Strep is a common oral pathogen.. let's try ARAPS (The enzyme Amylase is only found in the mouth, whereas Strep could be found in the blood... thus the need for the Amylase-philia).

Sounds good to me. Walker bites are lethal because of ARAPS.

Umm... What was the question again?

 

It would not always kill the victim in such a short period of time. Some people would linger for several days, even weeks, and some would even recover.

In my mind, it has to be a special walker related pathogen in the bite that is new to earth, just like the reanimation 'virus'. Probably a mutated version of the reanimation virus that everyone has, which mutates upon death.

 

We've seen bites take a couple days to kill the victim. Many times the prompt death is due to blood loss or MAJOR trauma.

In real life, my MIL developed a Staph infection that, in the course of 12 hours went from a mild fever (99.5) to septic shock. Fortunately we caught it in time, got her to the hospital, and antibiotics saved her.

But, I don't disagree that this is some sort of mutated bug

 

Wait--Rick swallowed? Who was it?

 

At most we've seen maybe 2 days, but that is rare. If it was everyday bacteria associated with the human mouth, many would linger for many days and even weeks. Especially the people who were bitten on a distal place like the hand. And some lucky people with healthy immune systems would even recover.

That is not what is shown on the show.

 

I'm sorry if I wasn't clear. I wasn't saying that the bug is something we have NOW. I was using Strep as an example of a pretty-darn contagious bacterium that does live in the mouth now to show what I meant. If ARAPS is actually a Strep bacterium, it would have HAD to mutate, and one of its mutant powers is the requirement to live only in an amylase-filled environment.

But I did just think of a problem with my theory. The distal locations don't contain Amylase, so the bacterium couldn't grow in that environment.. although the circulatory system could transport it to where it then could grow. Would an infection in a bitten person's mouth be enough to kill him? The mouth is really close to the brain, so maybe ...???

Another thought, if Amylase is the wrong path.. perhaps it's the teeth/skeletal tissue. We should test it out.. stab someone (minorly) with a zombie bone and see if it kills them.

 

Its not uncommon for a mouth infection to get into the venous system of the brain through the sinuses, but it has to be something that can cross the blood brain barrier. The reason I don't like the idea of it being some mutated form of an everyday bacteria, is because then we have to assume that two separate things are happening. A reanimation 'virus' suddenly evolved on earth, and at the exact same time, a new oral bacteria mutated into a virulent form that has a 100% mortality rate, usually in a matter of hours. I think its more elegant to assume its one bug doing both.

 

I'm going to say it was me, so just go with it

 

Yes, simpler if one bug does both.. but then, 100% mortality rate, and everyone would be a zombie. It HAS to be two bugs, although the zombie virus may have caused the mutation in the mouth bacterium.


WAIT, NO NO NO, because still, 100% mortality in those that are living. The bacterium can only live and REPRODUCE in the DEAD mouth. The bacteria that are inserted via the bite may not replicate in the living host, but are lethal anyway, and those bacteria that got moved to the mouth by the living circulatory system hang out until the host is dead, then proceed to reproduce.

Vick.. lol.