Why can't we eat infected humans?

[over9000nukez 199]

I've NEVER seen "3 weeks accepted by a lot of the community". If anything, most of the "older" member of the community suggest it has been longer, and collectively decided that "we" (the forumgoers) couldn't really tell, and would have to wait on some word from the devs.

 

NOTE: animal meats are almost universally disinfected via ammonia sprays and injections before packaging. They are also injected with antibiotics to fight off the diseases they get from living in such conditions. Not even TOUCHING the fact that most (not saying that it doesn't happen, or isn't possible) cross-species disease transmission is iffy at best.

I'd like to hear word from the devs too, because this hypothetical questions could open doors to a lot more questions in the plot: in the walking dead comic, SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS: a bad guy ends up coating his weapon in zombie "guts" and hits people with them, causing them to die of infection, that alone answered a lot of questions, if fluids cause the disease, and if the fluids either have to enter though the skin, or though an open wound, so on and so forth.

[ebrim 998]

Well, right now, I think it's simply an oversight. That said, it wouldn't be hard to come up with some sort of rationalization wherein this fictional zombie disease makes zombie flesh toxic to survivors.