[quote=threedawg]
@SyrianHamster: I agree, TWD lore is all over the place. There's a good fan explanation for this stuff, though. In the lore, the airborne virus is dormant and only activates upon death. A fan theory says that there is one other way to activate it and that's having walker saliva enter the bloodstream. It has to be a sizable amount so the only way to transmit this would be a bite. The classic walker fever is the result of the virus activating and shutting your brain down to accelerate the zombification. I think that's a lot better than Kirkman's whole 'the bite kills you because of blood loss or infection'!
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Playing the Walking Dead game right now, which I think is more based on the comic than that absurd TV show. Would an infection really kill you that quickly? I thought it took days, in the game it takes hours. Either way, I've read so many zombie-based novels, that I'm going to go ahead and include that "mixing blood", i.e, getting cut up and then covering yourself in zombie gore, is a sure fire way of catching something nasty. 

 Lol, the TV show, I remember watching that and thinking "why is everyone worrying about who slept with who? there's fucking zombies around" it was just so much soap drama and total rubbish in my opinion. As if like, the zombies weren't even part of it. It was just your average drama with some creepy people occasionally stopping by to move the plot forwards.