Walking Dead Season 3

[Blak Smyth]

Originally Posted by spectrrr

yeah, basic rules of "infections transmission" have kinda gone out the window in that show a long time ago. I remember back in the day when they were in Atlanta and came storming out of the building in protective masks so the blood spatter wouldn't get em. Now... hahahah. I'm pretty sure after the prison fights, each and every one of them has ingested some "spatter", be damned near impossible not to!

So where does that leave the infection mechanism.... drinking spatter isn't enough to turn you... but a bite or scratch is... ... I think sometimes in a good show, the producer has to ignore certain aspects in order to focus better on other ones and deliver good television.

Maybe it is transfered only in saliva?