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Originally Posted by Daradon
If everyone is already infected, than we know the contagion by itself doesn't kill you. But the whole premise is that many people since the beginning have died and risen as a zombie simply by getting bit. From a bite or wound that wouldn't be fatal. Just because a zombie wounded them. So which is it? Is the contagion fatal, or is it not?
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Everybody is infected. If you happen to get bitten by a zombie you get a nasty fever; and your cause of death is the fever. So you become a zombie because you died of a fever. At that point the fact that the cause of the fever is irrelevant.
However at the begining of the outbreak most people who came back were people who had been bitten.
This also explains how Carol's daughter was in the barn; she could have fallen or drowned or something. She would have died, come back, and then Hershal put her in the barn.
As for how the zombies live for so long without food- maybe it's like the one that got Hershal. They go to "sleep" until something wakes them up.