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First Signs of a Zombie Bite
So, you've been bitten.
That weird guy in the trench coat at the bus stop bit a lot of people before he staggered onto the bus.
The big question is, is it a Zombie bite? Holyfield had to ask this question, and he seems to have answered correctly since he didn't bite anyone else.
How can you tell a Z bite from
a normal crazy bus-stop bite?
a normal crazy bus-stop bite?
(remember to lead with your user name so we can praise your big insights!)
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twinsword: Well if you cant see the difference of a zombie and a regular person you are an dumbass.
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Mr.Awsome: My opinion? Well usually a weird person bite will just feel like a bite. While a zombie bite may have more of a kick to it and will sting more. Also after a zombie bite you will feel a little light-headed and short of breath. Usually if this is a normal person bite you wont feel these unless you are suffering from severe blood loss or he was carrying some kind sickness. (Both are unlikely) If you have determined that it is indeed a zombie bite If this happened to me, I would (I know it sounds harsh) kill myself. You may be surprised but this also makes sense. You wouldn't have to deal with being a zombie and you wouldn't harm any one else. My best advice would be if it feels like no other cut you have gotten and it was from a weird looking person it was probably a zombie. Probably want to avoid weird looking people that move slow and stumble. Better safe than sorry is what I say!
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AngelaB: My guess is that you should watch for a fever, followed by a drop in body temperature. I would also think that the healing would not be typical (i.e. the scab may form, but the wound wouldn't really seem to be healing). Obviously, after a few days there would be much clearer signs that something beyond a bite was amiss, but I'm really not sure how else you could tell.
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EvacMedic: Honestly, that's a hard call. I personally have always believed in a somewhat tell tale sign from a full body reaction. Besides a fever, an overall reaction such as slowed bodily functions and reaction times. Just as the body dies, I see this to be the most viable sign. If you are bitten, and you become utterly unstable physically, you should always see a doctor. But, in the event of the aforementioned "A-Typical" healing, your fate is sealed.
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McSkullcracken: Without checking the sacred Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks(Spoken with reverence), I believe a zombie bite coagulates quickly, turns odd colors, and does not show signs of healing. Other symptoms would be fatigue, headache, soreness in the joints, pain of movement, and a general sick feeling inside from slow organ failure.
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Residentmagnum: The Z bite or zombie bite looks like an ordinary human / animal bite. For a better visual take a look at your biting style by biting into an apple or another king of fruit. this type of mark will be in the flesh of a victim of a z bite.
- Side effects from a zombie bite: No fever from an infected bite. The person are normally cold. The brain is shutting down along with the heart. A normal human has a body temperature of 90-98 F. A zombie body temperature is around 50 F or under. The heart is sometimes still beating just not as fast or at all. The other organ shut down as they are no longer needed. No liver to clean the blood, no kidneys (zombie no longer need to goto the bath room), no lungs as zombies don't breath air. The most primitive parts of the brain are what are powering the zombie. Or in other words a zombie as half or less of a brain than many adult humans, a mentally challenged child may have more brain powder.
- The person who is infect may vomit or foam at the mouth. if a person dose either this doesn't mean that they are infected other illness sometimes cause the same problems; rabies, mental illness. the eyes may not focus, the eyes may be doll in color. the eyes may seemed to be glazed over
- What to do if you or a loved one is bitten? A bitten person may have anywhere from 30 seconds to one month this depends on tolerance to the zombie infection. People should isolated or quarantined immediately. Or other words put a bitten victim in a holding cell or strap them to a hospital bed.
- There is also the possibility that the infected can't be housed! In this event kill the infected. If possible take a moment to say good bye then shoot the infected in the head or use a mallet to bash their brains in. Take a machete or any other sharp object and cut the head off of the infected person.
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Master_At_Arms: To expand on what Residentmagnum had to say- A normal human in their right mind would only bite out of defense. Usually enough to cause pain. A zombie will bite very hard in order to remove flesh. The bite itself will appear deep but normal for the first hour or so. Bleeding will stop as normal and their might be signs of healing depending on the unfortunate victim's resistance to the virus, severity of the bite, and location of the bite. Eventually the wound will appear grossly infected. Healing will stop and the other symptoms will start taking effect as the virus takes hold and slowly starts killing the body.
The biggest sign to watch out for is yellowing of the skin and eyes. The virus slowly starts killing its host. The body's first and likely target will be the organs like the kidneys and the liver. This causes the body to jaundice. This is why zombies generally have the disturbing yellowish appearance. This is an important sign to watch out for because once these organs go and the symptoms of their failure appears, the heart and lungs will not be far behind. The victim might have anywhere to a few minutes to an hour before death and reanimation.
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Srg._winters: To me, the symptoms would vary depending if you were were in contact from specifically designed biological weapon, or if there was direct contact from a z to a non infected victim. the direct deployed infection would be harder to spot at first, unless they hurt themselves during the infection process, by say breaking a limb or falling on a piece of metal, glass or misc. object. One way you can tell is a not foaming, but either dried or drying blood in the mouth.
As for a direct contact transmission, or DCT you can expect anywhere from being bathed in blood to missing many limbs and the occasional jaw. part of this reason is when the disease is transmitted, its usually during a z feeding on you. in this case, if it was a minor bite, the transmission site would swell up.
- How exactly zombies come back: the disease sends the heart into convulsions that kill the infected. then the infection dramatically reduces the body's temperature and sends the body into hypothermia, sending all the blood to the center of the body, and with the disease still in the system, the heart is still going into convulsions that reduce to almost heartbeats, therefore sending blood into the brain, but with all the damage being done, the only functional part of the brain is the medulla oblongata, the section that triggers breathing, motor skills, balance and the need to feed.
- Why zombies are so stiff: With all that blood in the center cavity, there is barley any left in the muscles, and with the body temp. being so low, that doesn't help either (for the zombie, but it greatly helps us).
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roxas33:(please note this is all speculation were I am)The signs of a zombie bite include vomiting, death of skin around the bite, pain in the area of the bite, tiredness, lack of appetite, at the final stage loss of consciousness followed by death.
How soon you die is dependent on level of infection.
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Sphike92: It starts with pain and discoloration of bite area immediate clotting of wound followed by fever, chills, dementia, vomiting and acute pain in joints. Then numbing of extremities and infected area and loss of muscular coordination. Followed by paralysis in lower body and overall numbness followed by a coma then a coma induced death followed by reanimation. All with in place of 12 to 24 hours counting on infection rate. (this information is from the zombie survival guide by Max Brooks)
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Z13Infection: The point at which you can tell if it is a normal animal bite or a zombie bite is when the final stages of it happen. First of all, you can easily tell if it is a zombie bite if you know that the person who bit the other person is a zombie. But another good sign of the bite being zombified is infection will immediately start. A purplish color can be seen around the bite and the blood will not coagulate immediately. In some cases it wont coagulate at all. This may be pretty normal if it is a large bite and death will occur anyways in a zombie enlivenment due to the lack of medical support around and the lack of training by your friends and other survivors around you. Chances are that if you get bit in a zombie environment by anything besides a zombie or just plainly a zombie, its probably better to be killed to end the suffering and just in case, protect your loved ones from you harming them or trying to kill them. These are my personal ideas, though.
Hell_Razor: Behavior of the biter must be taken into account. Was it staggering around in a trance until it saw you or was it ranting and raving incoherently? Generally a person deranged enough to bite random people will lack the ability to speak coherently, and the undead lack the ability to speak at all. Also, a zombie will more than likely take a chunk out of you, as it is well documented on their taste for human flesh. Examine the biter's tenacity and reaction after biting you. Did it bite and run? Is it still gnawing at your arm? If you are certain that a psycho sunk his teeth into you, get a rabies shot. If it was a zombie then please save us the trouble. Chamber a round into your weapon, point it at your temple and pull the trigger.
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DevilMayCrye: Most Zombies don't go for just one bite, they always try to "eat" their victim. But the difference between a Zombie bite and a normal crazy-bus stop bite is simple: a zombie wouldn't have been smart enough to get on the bus.
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smilerwithaknife: I completely agree with DevilMayCrye on this. The zombie isn't likely to bite you once and then just stagger off. But one thing that I have wondered is if there is any legitimacy to the theory of immediately cutting off the infected limb to prevent the infection from spreading to the body. This is popular in movies and fiction, but Max Brooks says there is little chance of it working. While I generally follow Brooks' lead, this seems like a concept that should be explored further. Is it possible to halt the infection by sacrificing an arm or a finger?
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taylor100550: First you don't fell good right after you bite. Then 1 hour later you have craving for food that later turn into meat cravings. Then 2 hour after bite you start to fell dizzy and tied. Then 5 hour you start to bleed from every hole in you body and then you pass out and wake up as a zombie.
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gummbearyyz: (my first post not sure if that's needed but whatever
it's a human bites you it'll just be a bite, if a zombie bites you it will be more likely to hold on tighter or possibly to tear.
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UnUndead: An easy way to tell is to kick the biter in the balls (or some other sensitive area) really hard. If they respond, it's a human bite. If they don't react, it might be a zombie.
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An Observers View: At first it would act as any bite would, bruising rapidly and bleeding. But as time goes by the clotting quickens more than regular, turning black and the bruise doesn't goes away. You start sweating rapidly, especially from the head and torso, as the virus attacks neurons making them fire very fast as they're paths are rewritten. You start to loose higher level thinking from the heat. You sweat so much that you suffer dehydration adding to the effects of the fever. Eventually you slip into unconsciousness from the lack of water in your blood to pump oxygen to your brain. Then blood flow stops to lesser organs and extremities, and holds itself up in the torso. The brain, devoid of oxygen by now, completely shutdown and relinquishes control to the virus infected neurons. (Disgusting) The bowels release and much of the remaining water is suddenly drained... The new control sends out un-intelligible signals making body parts shake and the heart to redistribute whats left of the water across the whole body. Then the new you gets up and stumbles around and by Thermostatic theory (see hypothalamus wiki) you now have a great hunger. You stumble out of the alley you used to live in and see a group of moving things. Your barely robotic thinking sees the movement as a sign of life, and life means meat. You move and yell with primal rage, but you are a mute. You stumble to them and bite one on the arm but it runs away. You see another and try to bite him, but it also runs. Then you see a HUGE moving thing and walk to it. Suddenly you move past the thing and nothing is moving, but you smell and hear a lot.Theres the whole thing in a coconut shell, sorry but nuts just don't do it for me. (not supposed to be a dirty joke)
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Happyman: Also! Most likely the bite will act like a nercotoxin and kill (infect) all the skin around the bite. This will probably turn the skin black/bluish. This sign you can actually tell pretty quickly and have enough time to prevent yourself from being completly infected (amutation/immunize).
See also:
- Deteriorating tissue impacts
- First Signs of a zombie bite
- First signs of a zombie outbreak
- Why hunt the living?
- Motor Skills
- Nonhuman Infection
- Possibility of "recovery"
- Psychological effects on the living
- Experimentations
- Origin of the Zombie
- How are zombies created?
- How a zombie virus could arise
- Celestial Events
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| sphike92 | Zombie Survival Guide and Your Opinions | 9 | Friday, 10:18 PM EDT by Hell_Razor | |
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How do you feel about the Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks.
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| woody100 | ????? | 2 | Aug 11 2008, 4:24 PM EDT by NoxTerran | |
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could a human jaw even give enough force to penetrate your skin with out a good 3 minutes of chewing coz human teeth arnt too sharp.
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| Renegade13 | Bite infection | 0 | May 31 2008, 12:02 AM EDT by Renegade13 | |
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If looking for a wound infection you have to remember thata human bite ingeneral will get very infected because the human mouth is very dirty.
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| EvacMedic | The burning question... | 2 | May 29 2008, 2:39 PM EDT by SuperSoldierRCP | |
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What if a person is bitten and does not show any of these aforementioned symptoms? Could they be immune? Is the virus more subtle? Was it a zombie? What on EARTH can you do to figure this one out?
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