Anybody who is confused. I think it would help if this was included in the front page as I have seen a lot of confusion as to how Shane was infected, even seeing this:
Posted by: Borderline5440
What I want to know is how Shane resisted turning all that time. I guess he was fighting it, then when he was killed it finally got to take over.
Lets get this straight. If you die, by any means, you will turn into a Walker. The only exception is if you die by traumatic injury to the head and brain, destroying the motor relays and neural pathways the "virus" seizes control of once you are dead.
This is why:
- Randall, the kid who's neck Shane broke, re-animated after death
- Shane re-animated after being stabbed through the chest/gut
- A man who had hung himself from a tree rather than face the world overrun by Walkers re-animated but as a Walker remained trapped in the tree; Andrea and Daryl later encountered this man and Andrea asked Daryl to perform a mercy killing on the Walker as it snarled and writhed, entrapped and pathetic, and driven only by it's hunger for their flesh
- In the webisodes, a woman who is killed when her car collides with a tree re-animates while another attempts to give her mouth to mouth; she then bites off the latters' tongue and most of her face
- The men Rick shoots in the bar do not re-animate as they both took bullets to the head
Walker bites do not transmit the "zombie virus", they simply cause a fever which kills. You then re-animate as a Walker upon death. The "virus" is already inside everybody; it only activates on their death. Everone is infected.