The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: The many ways to die
By Liam O'Leary
2) “Beware the little things.”
Animals can pose a threat to us in a very obvious way, they have teeth and claws, and outweigh us by hundreds of pounds. On the other hand, there are all sorts of things that we either overlook, or can’t even see that can not only kill us individually, by wipe out our entire groups if we’re unlucky.
As dangerous as animals are, they are nothing compared to diseases and the things which transmit them.
Let’s take, for example, mosquitoes. Mosquitoes are, without question, the biggest pestilence known to man. They are the primary carriers of malaria, which kills approximately a million people a year, and has been doing so for many years.
There may be millions of people who die in the zombie apocalypse not because of things the zombies do, or by the things zombies directly cause, but because they catch diseases that have nothing to do with zombies, but kill them anyway.
Worse still, as we saw in The Walking Dead, even getting zombie’s blood on you, for all that we know, could be fatal, simply from being the blood of a disgusting, rotten corpse, never mind the fact it’s a zombie.
On top of all that, the apocalypse will make getting medical care extremely difficult, and make diseases, even what might otherwise be minor infections, just as deadly as the zombie virus!
One last thing: What if mosquitoes…could carry the zombie virus? Wouldn’t that be a scary prospect?