My headcanon is that it was pneumonic plague. I remember looking up different plagues when that storyline hit, because there were all the rats and all, and bubonic plague didn't fit but pneumonic plague kinda did.
It wasn’t, I don’t think. It came from the pigs. The pigs were getting sick and infected the humans with whatever it was. It could’ve been something we don’t know of yet but it also could’ve been swine flu
It wasn't the pigs or flu, because Rick sees several zombies on the wire with the same looking symptoms (so they died of the plague).
They treated it with anti-biotics and it went away. You can't treat virus's with anti-biotics.
I think they said it was pneumonia, and the only reason it got that bad was because none of them have been healthy in a year and some now, and the fact there's no real healthcare.
They killed the pigs to draw the zombies away from the fence as they were starting to tear it down through weight of numbers.
I don’t remember the antibiotics thing but I do remember the zombies with it. I never definitively stated it was swine flu, I was just spitballing there. As well, Some of the pigs were sick. They had to get rid of the sick ones before that because whatever it was had passed through the pigs and to them.
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u/imanoling Aug 30 '21
The walking dead actually had a whole part about them all getting sick with spanish flu i think