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Why didn't Luda change right away


Anyone know or can deduce why?

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I think that I remember reading somewhere her bite was so slight, so small and in such a place on her body that the change was not as rapid as say Luis' change. Also she didn't hardly bleed from her bite.

Perhaps it was because she was preggars?

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Because the plot demanded it, silly. No good No-Prizes here. Maybe the baby was absorbing all the zombieness.

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You don't turn until you die. All bites will eventually kill you from infection.

Because of how small the bite was on Luda it took a while for the infection to set in and kill her. If not for the infection Luda would have been fine

Luis bled out and died immediately. The bite itself was a mortal wound no need to wait for infection

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What gets me is how quickly Steve turns, when the woman who "died without a name" took longer to turn. And both had about the same size bites, just in a different location.

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Cant remember if they actually show Steve's injury. As I remember it they show us the zombie, him scream, and the zombie attack. If the wound itself was a quickly fatal..ala. Louis, then it makes sense.

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We also don't know how long, exactly, Steve was dead before he turned.

The film makes it seem like an instant, but it could've been minutes or even hours with all the scene cuts

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