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Originally Posted by Straker
I'm thinking cutting off the infected limb would probably not help much. The infection would likely enter your bloodstream when you recieved the bite and by the time you got round to removing the limb it would be too late. I guess you might slow the rate of infection down, but probaby no more effective than if you just cleaned and dressed the wound. My theory is based on comparing a zombie bite to a snake bite and sucking the poision out of a snake bite is next to useless. That said, I't dont really hurt to try, considering the alternative.
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Very good point - I didn't know how quickly snake venom truly infiltrated the blood stream. Crap.
Are there movies where we see an appendage cut off and they still become infected?