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Though it's a game, not a movie, The Last of Us had a fairly good premise for the outbreak. Theres a fairly large latency between infection and visible symptoms
by manfredo 9y ago
Though it's a game, not a movie, The Last of Us had a fairly good premise for the outbreak. Theres a fairly large latency between infection and visible symptoms, so by the time society is aware of the outbreak a large portion of the population is already infected. That combined with the fact the infection spreads both though contact and through inhalation of spores.
- lobster_johnson 9y agoTo add to that, in some zombie stories, such as The Walking Dead, everyone turns into a zombie when they die, even if they haven't been bitten. I don't know if it's ever explained in the graphic novels, but in the TV show it's glossed over, with the character Rick Grimes saying something like "whatever it is, it's in all of us now". I forget if Romero's films share the same conceit. But in The Night of the Living Dead, the dead are actually coming to life, raising from graves.