Thread:Shanethefilmmaker/@comment-397235-20140904033414/@comment-6052796-20150123134234

Well the bite makes sense in the Romero-verse. In that continuity a Zombie Bite does not turn you. Any type of death that doesn't involve destroying the brain will cause you to rise. Meaning you could be shot and killed, but if your head wasn't blown off you'd still be a zombie. The human mouth when unchecked has many different bacterials which in combiniation could create powerful poison that depending on the degree of the bite, could kill you in a matter of days or a matter of minutes. Combine that with the fact that you just got bit by something dead and you may as well be having cyanide pumped into your system. When he bit that finger off, he came into contact with regular but powerful diseases that would kill him due to the blood and fluids that may have squirted into his mouth. So in away he commited suicide.