So there's a massive Hollywood blunder that annoys me regarding Zombies.
In every film where there is an outbreak of Zombies, regardless of how the disease is spread anything thats walking around infecting other people is regarded as a Zombie, when true to the mythology this isn't the case for it to be dubbed a Zombie. A zombie is a corpse that is reanimated post death which then goes around biting others and infecting them. Is the person has not been raised dead then that person is known as an infected NOT a zombie. I know in most films it goes something along the lines of; Bit, Fever, Death, Reanimation. But because they were not raised from the dead as an initial corpse that person would be an infected not a zombie.
The closest thing we have to someone becoming Zombie like is Rabies, if rabies became airborne then we would exhibit zombie like behavior. In the book World War Z by Max Brookes the initial outbreak is dubbed as African Rabies making the "zombies" in that film infected because they aren't initially dead, but instead contract a rabies like disease. Where as in the majority of Zombie films directed by George A. Romero the initial zombies are raised from the dead, then infect other LIVING beings, making them infected.
So to summarise, if a previously dead corpse is reanimated it is a zombie, if a living organism is then bit it is known as an infected.
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