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Originally Posted by RogerWilco
Hershel said in the episode that people are dying not from the illness but the symptoms ie. infection. That is what the antibiotics would be for.
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While that isn't exactly true for real world Ebola, antibiotics can/should be taken to help fight secondary infections by those who have contacted it. So it's a bit of a real world parallel, although it's effectiveness is very limited in the real world.
And so far the mystery disease is batting 1000. With no apparent survivors of the disease yet and certain Ebola strains having 90% or more mortality rates I think it's likely going to end up as the closest real world disease but I suspect we're never going to get an actual named disease. This isn't Breaking Bad where the science checks out, I mean they got a mint self cleaning Hyundai Tucson several years into a Zombie apocalypse or the fact that a grocery store set up as some form of military base (as seen in the first episode of this season) would have shelves stocked full of everything, no one in the end of the world decided they could go for some alcohol?