Zombie Survival: Do's and Dont's

I was just mulling it over before, probably the most undervalued thing to use in a zombie invasion would be gloves.

Ordinary heavy-duty washing up gloves.

Think about it, if the zombification can be transmitted by saliva or blood, a cut on your hands could be exposed to this and then *BHAM* you're a zombie.
The wear-and-tear of keeping up against the zombie horde may render some more flimsy disposable brands useless and gloves like bike-gloves may soak through with blood to cuts.

What's up with her eyes in that clip? Is she a cyborg?
 
naw she isn't a cyborg, im guessing you haven't seen the first two then. Well the coorperation Umberlla created this virus like thing that enhances human performance and abilities. Well the result was zombiefication. She the only human that it worked on, she has super human strenght and speed and is a carrier of the virus, but is normal.
 
I saw the end of the second, but yeah, that's crazy!
So she's a carrier of the disease and could pass it on to those around her?
That seems irresponsible of the people developing the virus, experimenting with the living dead usually involves in an outbreak.
 
im a big fan of the resident evil games and movies..i still have the first game for ps1..lol

couldn't they have made a better trailer though? IMO it was too quick and really doesn't tell you much about the movie.
 
Fungi said:
I saw the end of the second, but yeah, that's crazy!
So she's a carrier of the disease and could pass it on to those around her?
That seems irresponsible of the people developing the virus, experimenting with the living dead usually involves in an outbreak.
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Actually, the experimenters buried the research facility so far underground, and surrounded it with so many fail safes, it was nearly impossible for an outbreak to occur by accident. A combination of eco terrorists attacking at the same moment a corrupt security staffer attempted to steal the T virus and wipe out the lab made an outbreak possible.

The T virus is protean, existing in an areosol (airborn) then fluid based environment. It attacks both living and dead tissues, and is transmitted by bite after the initial dispersal. In living tissue, it causes constant mutation with each exposure to new DNA. In the dead, it causes re-animation with limited structural alterations. The T virus can be cured if the subject is provided the antidote within 4 hours of contact. It's considered a much less dangerous viral zombication form than solanum virus, as the T infection can be treated. There is also evidence that living creatures infected with the T virus retain some sense of who they were before mutation. Infected dead show no signs of memory. Durability and decay rates on infected dead are not known at this time.

As a final note, the T virus is fairly delicate. Living tissue exposed to infection will die without specialized medical support during the early mutation process. Therefore, it is not considered likely that an outbreak of nemisis form infected is naturally possible.
 
The T-Virus is essentially a protein crystal with a RNA core. Once the virus makes contact with a cell it is able to infiltrate the nucleolus, and manipulate the cell's DNA. The T-Virus becomes an essential part of the cell, and as the cell replicates, the virus is copied with each division.
The T-Virus will gradually destroy a cell's mitochondria, and replace it with a special organelle which produces a new-found form of energy.[citation needed] As the body becomes self sufficient on this energy, the respiratory and circulatory systems will become vestigial, ending the body's dependence on oxygen

This is actually quite interesting, basically what it's saying is that the T-virus injects its RNA (ribonucleic acid) into the host cell and then takes over the cellular processes, creating new viral proteins and a new viral mitochondria (the organelle responsible for ATP (adenosine triphosphate) production from glucose) and causing it to create a new kind of energy.

Humans do use more than just glucose/sugars for energy, another form that they use is creatine which can result in 50% more ATP production. This supposes that the new mitochondria would not use glucose as the substrate molecule, rather it would probably use proteins or lipids from the flesh they consume of the humans, this form allows the infected to obtain more energy from the process than normal cellular respiration, allowing for their 'superhuman' strength.

"ending the body's dependence on oxygen" also helps us understand why zombies can survive underwater, as has often been shown in Z movies but never fully explained why. However this does not fully rule out the neccesity of the circulatory system entirely, removal of metabolic wastes would be a major problem, perhaps causing the inside of the zombie to become more acidic (as in the case of CO2 buildup in the blood), this would perhaps lead to a more rapid decay of the zombie.
 
Without getting to graphic, how human do you think zombies are? We've seen zombies eat flesh, either for nurishment or for satisfaction of killing, but what happens to that flesh. Fungi and Malefic's post raise great points about the working of a zombie's body, but are they much different from humans. Do they have normal bodily functions, such as Digestion and "movements"? and what bout normal growth, would a zombie child given fair conditions mature? If you remember in DotD the Baby Zombie, i wonder if it would grow up to become an adult zombie.

There is more to zombification then being able to walk while dead, most of the movies out there nowadays you can't reall classify as zombie movies, more inffected humans then anything. Well thinking bout this should help kill some time at work, aight zombie squad lets hear your answers.
 
Good questions raised, we'd assume that something has happened to the internal systems of the zombie which mean they are no longer dependent on the normal foods which we eat, and now they eat flesh for sustenance. Flesh is high-fat and protein, this would drive their metabolic functions. The fact that their heart is no longer beating means that they would need to eat a large quantity of this for it to be distributed around the body by diffusion (travelling through the circulatory system without the blood flowing from where it's in high concentration to where it's in low concentration).

Zombie children should be able to grow and mature, provided that the replication of the cells through mitosis replicates the new cells as new zombie cells, complete with everything inside it also being zombie. However, in the normal functions of viruses, the virus bursts from the cell after replicating, rupturing the host cell and ultimately being responsible for the death of the host organism. Many viruses, however, taking the tack that "A good parasite does not kill its host" have learned to 'bud' from the host cell, taking with it a portion of the cell's outer membrane. If the virus were to somehow regulate this replication process so as not to destroy the host cell.

The virus is an obligate intracellular parasite and depends on its host entirely to function, so it would, if it was able to keep itself in check, survive in the host as it grows. Children can mature, and perhaps if the zombies got their act together, they could reproduce sexually as humans do.

I love biology (one of my best subjects) and applying it to this situation really puts your key understandings to the test, I wish someone could verify it though.
 
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