Quote Originally Posted by niky View Post
Dawn of the Dead zombies?

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The big problem is that this kind of zombie is posited as a viral outbreak, whcih means that we'll need to keep isolated in an airtight chamber until the outbreak is over. I don't know how long the virus can survive outside of living (or undead) tissue... so that's a big problem.

If the virus spreads easily, and turns any dead person into a zombie, whether they've been bitten or not, then we'd all have to start wearing deadman's collars... collars equipped with explosives that'll blow our heads off if our heart stops.
"Dawn of the Dead" zombie type can only re-animate the recently dead because it is a pathogen based zombie. Those which have been dead a while will not have enough living tissue (nerves, muscles) to re-animate.

From the movie, the pathogen is in the body fluids, main source is the mouth since that is the usual way it attacks humans. Of course, if you have an open wound that lets zombie blood/fluid into your body, chances are, you will be a zombie in a few hours/days as well.

One thing that isn't mentioned is how much zombie fluid is needed to infect a healthy human. Would a single drop be enough? Or does it need to be a "typical" zombie bite size to be effective? Would zombie blood dropped into the eyes of a healthy human be enough to infect?