Lexicon:Benefits of Zombification
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When compared to similar disasters, such as plagues or urban warfare, zombie outbreaks can be far less lethal than would be assumed. The fact is that through these horrific years, I've never heard of one person who stayed dead. Once infected, people seem able to recover from any apparently fatal trauma albeit as zombies. It is possible Zombification consists of allowing cells to survive with a far slower than usual metabolic rate, giving the body time to repair while heart and lung function remains at a minimum. All well and good, and if Necrotech is behind the outbreak perhaps the intended effect, but soon additional tissue begins to develop. The zombie becomes much stronger, but also slow, ungainly, and aggressive. I think these negative effects could well be due to nerve growth, with "crossed connections" making equilibrium and "body awareness" difficult and scrambling the higher functions leaving only the most basic, hardwired, animalistic instincts to guide the victim. I believe that this additional growth is what the Revive Syringes target. By destroying this tissue the brain is restored to a configuration relatively similar to that before "death", unless of course "zombie neurones" taken over too many functions of the "human neurones". Anyone "killed" in the outbreak can easily be restored to life as long as syringes are available, and so Malton's population can recover as quickly as they are produced, rather than slowly dwindling away.
Broggly 11:03, 21 October 2009 (BST)
Citations: Disasters. --DANCEDANCEREVOLUTION-- 03:00, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
