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Originally Posted by Codes
I'm trying to remember if we saw any dead non-walkers in the show, besides the two officers/guards from a few episodes back. I can't recall any. It is also interesting that once the host is dead, the virus takes hold at different rates. Perhaps the longer the dormant version exists within the host, the faster it takes over once the host dies...
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In the early episodes this season, there were several dead non-walkers in the cars on the highway.
I still think that the burning of walker bodies may have something to due with the transition from recently dead human to walker. In the eposide with the two police officers or security guards that had become walkers without any apparent bites, there was also a pile of previously burnt bodies nearby that Rick stumbled upon. And Shane (along with Andrea and T-Dog) burned the bodies of the walkers from the barn.
Perhaps burning walker bodies releases an altered state of the virus that, once inhaled, infects the living in a different manner than a classic zombie bite.