Popular media these days depicts the zombie outbreak coming in the form of a virus that once infected will cause you to turn into a zombie upon your death/cause you to die and turn into a zombie.
Has the whole transmission through mosquitoes thing been visited? I'm sure they would be carriers of the virus and it would make it much easier to "get bit".
depends on if the viruse can live outside the body or not.
IE.. you don't see rabies cases from mosquito bites.. ( that I am aware of ).
some viri are realitively fragile outside the host, and become inactive fast after leaving the host.
The Newsflesh trilogy has it as an important plot event in one of its books.
(11-19-2013 03:50 PM)soundguy Wrote: [ -> ]depends on if the viruse can live outside the body or not.
IE.. you don't see rabies cases from mosquito bites.. ( that I am aware of ).
some viri are realitively fragile outside the host, and become inactive fast after leaving the host.
You can actually get rabies from non bite exposure. I don't know why insects don't work as vectors though.
if you get their saliva in an open wound or I presume a mucus membrain ( eye, mouth, etc.. ) I imagine that is a positive transfer.