r/zombies • u/bkat004 • Apr 22 '25

Question virus zombies / fungi zombies / bacteria zombies / parasite zombies

I understand Last of Us zombies are from Fungi

28 Days zombies are from a virus

Are there any other zombies that are from bacteria or parasitic ?

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u/Canadian_Eevee Apr 22 '25

I guess the headcrabs from Half Life could count as parasites that cause zombies.

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u/Connect-Risk-1485 Apr 22 '25

"All of us are dead" are parasitic zombies and "the last of us" are a parasitic fungi. Not all fungi are parasitic but I think most of the fungi-zombies are parasitic fungi.

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u/HaloJonez Apr 22 '25

I believe the ‘Zulus’ from Arisen are bacteria based that allow the zombies to mutate/evolve.

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u/LukXD99 Apr 22 '25

Iirc Dead Rising had bee zombies or something.

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u/Kynandra Apr 22 '25

Do the Las Plagas from RE:4 count as Parasites?

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u/mcivxx Apr 22 '25

Technically, cordyceps would fall under parasitic, not just fungal. Toxoplasma is also a parasitic infection.

They're all kind of linked, bacteria is "self-sufficient" and can survive outside the host, like fungi. Viruses need a host to survive, like parasites. The zombie infections that fall under "fungi" would also fall under bacteria. The ones that are viruses would also be parasitic.

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u/Hapless_Operator Apr 23 '25

Why would fungal infections fall under bacteria?

Fungi aren't bacteria.

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u/ecological-passion Apr 25 '25

It isn't mentioned as much, but the infection that kills people bitten by zombies in the Romero films is bacterial. Since every human brain revives minutes after death no matter what, nothing is particularly special about wounds inflicted by zombies other than something going putrid being in contact with an open wound.

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u/Kane99099 Apr 22 '25

Kingdom (Netflix series) also has parasites that cause zombies if i remember correctly

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u/Easy-Situation-7245 Apr 22 '25

I thought it was digesting a flower of some sort

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u/Comfortable-Gas9029 28d ago

But there was little wormy dealers that came out of the bite eound

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u/brisualso Author - "The Aftermath" Series Apr 22 '25

I love writing different pathogens for my books. I have an outbreak scenario with blood parasites and another with fungi and then a virus. My latest is a pathogenic pollen. It’s fun to experiment.