User blog comment:Lord Loss/Monster Hunter Theory... Blog/@comment-91.83.200.69-20130106013532/@comment-4563270-20130106071025

I quite agree. i've been saying for a while that the virus itself doesn't bring things to life like a zombie and nor can it animate dead tissue.. any virus needs LIVING tissue in order to replicate. an effect of the virus could be adrenaline which is why hunters who contract it gain an attack boost across the board when weakened. if the host is dead no longer than 8 min. the adrenaline rush triggered by the virus can ressurect the host for however long it takes. now of course it also makes sense that goa grows an immunity to and symbiosis with the virus and whatever is carrying it which also explains how gao can send the virus as a projectile either A. his saliva contains the virus or B. he sends a glob of the parasites out to spread the virus. it's intereting that you mention spiders too because most spiders have a very slow metabolism aswell able to go days.. weeks without food so that isn't so far fetched either.