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Why is it so inconceivable for there to eventually be a cure or vaccine for the z-virus. Yes it's true there's no chance of that happening right away, But given the right survivors and enough time, it could happen. I would definitely rather live in a zombie dystopia with hope of vaccination or cure than one without. I'm not talking a "turn the living dead into the living" cure, but what about save those who are bitten but have not crossed over yet?
It's you, it's me, against an army of zombies...
-Lars Fredrickson and the Bastards |
When you become a zombie, all organs shutdown and begin to rot. So if you havent crossed over and your infected, maybe there will be a vaccine for that.
Cant wait for that zombie invasion
I'm not talking about curing death and turning zombie back into humans. I'm talking about vaccinating, so if you get bit and you've already received the vaccine, you have at least a chance of survival. When i said cure i meant for people who had just gotten bit or maybe were bitten an hour before, but hadn't died yet. The reason i made this forum is i keep reading stuff other people have posted, and they don't seem to acknowledge the chance of curing or vaccinating.
It's you, it's me, against an army of zombies...
-Lars Fredrickson and the Bastards
A pre-Zed vaccination MIGHT be feasible, once the Zombie affliction emerges and we have a chance to study it for awhile.
But remember, look how long AIDS and Cancer have been around, with intensive study and research done into it during a peaceful time. Imagine what it'd be like in a Z-Day Dystopia for scientists trying to find a cure. I doubt we'd be able to produce anything to combat the virus should it emerge.
Then again, depends on the circumstance. Maybe Z-Day will be a religious apocalypse, and the cure never existant.
"It doesn't matter if you're smart, dumb, ugly, pretty... it's all the same once yer dead... and a corpse can't laugh." - silent Hill 2
Eliot - Site Admin agrees;
"Yendor makes an interesting point."
The problem with curing AIDS is that it's constantly mutating, And cancer isn't a virus it's cells that have basically gone haywire. Yes there is a chance that should the z-virus emerge it will be as ever changing as AIDS, but there aren't many types or virii(yes that actually is a plural form of the word virus, I looked it up) that mutate so rapidly, so it's highly unlikely.
It's you, it's me, against an army of zombies...
-Lars Fredrickson and the Bastards
It's very possible, but remember that zombies as we know them are a production of Hollywood, and as such we tend to follow the rules they have set down. If there was a vaccine, it wouldn't be a very exciting movie, would it?
Be afraid. Hogan is worse than any zombie.
We'll see how exiting a zombie movie with a vaccine would be when i finish mine. Hollywood zombies are fine and all, but thats just an alteration of earlier zombie lore. Mind you, me pointing this out doesn't help my argument because zombie lore originated in Haitian Voodoo. Having said that, the lore started of as a mystical belief and wouldn't have a cure, but i think a viral zombie is far more likely, and has the possibility of a cure.
It's you, it's me, against an army of zombies...
-Lars Fredrickson and the Bastards
For something like a vaccination or cure to be plausible you would have to find patient zero. The first actual zombie because that victim would have the pure blood. I think it would just be like the vampire disease. Every generation it degrades itself...thats the way it happened in House of the Dead too. And I think thats how it would happen to.
When Your Pushed, Killing's As Easy As Breathin! --John Rambo (Rambo 4)
I'm just saying that there's alot of diseases and such out there that we've spent alot of time trying to cure, and well we haven't. And that's in best of times.
1) I doubt there will be that many chemists in a Z-Day Scenario.
2) A vaccine would depend on a Government surviving reasonably enough to create a lab and gather materials needed for scientists to experiment.
3) By the time we find or create a Vaccine, Z-Day may be over...
"It doesn't matter if you're smart, dumb, ugly, pretty... it's all the same once yer dead... and a corpse can't laugh." - silent Hill 2
Eliot - Site Admin agrees;
"Yendor makes an interesting point."
Then there won't be any survivors either. Isn't 'everyone dies, burns, raped by satan' or something like that the whole point of a religious apocalypse?
I was speaking more along the lines of a broad so called religious homicide, not necessarily christianity.
For example, how Romero portrays Z-Day. The Zombies somehow become superstrong, apparently live forever once they reach a certain degree of decomposition, start becoming smarter, and even people long dead and rotting mystically rise up from the grave. And when we die we all become Zombies unless someone destroys our brain or we destroy our own. However, becoming a Zombie while living is only achieved through being bit.
I'm talking more of a Z-Day that isn't Scientific (In a mean word, believable). Something else propels the Undead forward.
Realistically, Undead are decomposing creatures, for all intents and purposes human, with human limitations save maybe breathing, more then likely little thought, and communication, and of course the absence of pain. These are speculations of course, but when something decomposes it doesn't magically stop, like I mentioned somewhere before Wind can make mountains disappear, how long before an Undead does that's already decomposing? I don't quite recognize where the whole super strength thing emerges, just a Hollywood ploy in my mind to make them seem scarier.
I believe the most likely form of something along the lines of Z-Day will be Infected (Ala 28 Days LateR), where they are humans with a pathogen that makes them enraged and capable of transferring the virus by contact with the blood, not necessarily biting. Honestly, if you were in rage would you merely bite? I'd be smashing everything with my fists, occasionly biting yes, but mostly pushing and punching and pulling. Like they did to that one poor bastard in the kitchen of the 28 Days Later mansion.
"It doesn't matter if you're smart, dumb, ugly, pretty... it's all the same once yer dead... and a corpse can't laugh." - silent Hill 2
Eliot - Site Admin agrees;
"Yendor makes an interesting point."