Yup, makes sense :)

Watching TWD, and the various other zombie fiction, I'm always surprised how little attention gets paid to the other parts of what a walking, rotting corpse would mean. It never really gets covered in the kind of way I would expect it to.

Yeah, when excrement meets air conditioning, you don't stop and worry about the corpse juice on every little scratch and injury, but nobody ever dies from the kind of infections that would be running rampant after a zombie fight.

And nobody really cleans up the environment around them after a zombie fight near their camps. They'll drag the bodies off, but that's not really enough to prevent every risk from ever happening. You'd have tainted watersheds, possible contamination as insects and scavengers come to check out the smells of rot, then spreading pathogens.

TWD only had one plague pre-carl dying (I stopped after that), and that seems a bit low for what was years of time.

Which, there's all kinds of ways to explain that stuff away, but they never do lol.