On The Walking Dead TV series, a big question that came up earlier this season was what would happen if someone ate someone who had been bitten by a walker. On the “Four Walls and a Roof” episode, Bob revealed to Gareth and his group that he had been bitten by a walker.
The news was rather distressing to Gareth’s group because they had recently made a meal out of Bob’s leg and were worried that they had eaten tainted meat. However, Gareth told his group they would be ok, because they had cooked Bob’s leg first.
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Based on the way that The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman answered a question posed to him in the letter column for The Walking Dead #134, Gareth and his group would have been ok even if they hadn’t cooked Bob.
Kirkman was asked that if you got bitten by a walker and had sex with someone, then would you infect that person, so they would turn into a walker as well.
Kirkman answered, “If you had a septic wound that was infecting your blood stream, would you pass that infection through sex? No. Soโฆ having sex with someone after they’ve been bittenโฆ much like eating a living human’s flesh after they’ve been bitten (show referenceโฆ to a thing that happened years ago in the comic) has no effect on you.”
So there you have it, if you get bitten by a zombie, then you are perfectly safe for either sex or being eaten.
The Walking Dead airs on Sunday nights at 9 PM ET on AMC.