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The guy with bugging leg


What illness was the guy whose leg was bugging him suffered from?

Do you remember him? It's the guy who was in Korea and was explaining to Brad how it all started, and then the other guy says how bugged-leg survived even tho he was in the middle but zekes did not attack him?

So he may had bad knee or something, but which terminal illness makes you leg bug?

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I asked this same question. I hope one of us gets a reply!!! :-)
<<Death is whimsical today.>>

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Aids

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I don't remember them ever saying. I just remember them showing him in a flashback Brad Pitt had of people who were already sick that had been right in the midst of the zombies and were ignored by them.
I think the point was just to show that people who were sick were not considered desirable by the infected.

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Probably had some incurable malignant tumor involving his leg such as an osteosarcoma (bone cancer) or rhabdomyosarcoma (muscle cancer).

He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.

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Makes sense. Thanks

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Another possibility is that he simply wasn't terminal. When he was ignored, the virus took several minutes before it turned someone. Maybe this strain was more picky when it came to health?

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Diabetic?
It can affect the extremities.

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I think another interesting question is how he could pass the medical with a terminal or chronic condition.

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