Can you become a zombie if you eat one?

[Kingdoms of Cal]

Was playing with the idea of the "state hospital"* being attacked. The staff fleeing to a safe place,and giving the inmates guns when the attack begins. Some of the inmates are nuts enough to eat their prizes if they are fresh enough.

*Hospital for the criminal insane (mass murders, cannibals, spree killers and all of the above that are beyond help)...The kinda people that make the zombie hordes look good.

[Conscentia]

Are you eating it raw or cooked?

Raw zombie would be contaminated.

[The Campbell Nation]

Yes, though probably not as assuredly as if you had been bitten. Stomach acids/lining would provide some limited defence. It's also possible that you might get sick, but not turn.

[Liberty and Alderney]

Eat a zombie. Get infected. Chase my enemies down and bite them before I completely lose myself to the infection. That would be my plan.

[Common Territories]

From what I can guess, yes.

The virus itself (from what I read around) can probably survive most cooking methods and eating raw zombie is obviously a contaminated mess. If you want a good model, imagine eating a dead cow that has been walking around for days to weeks. We all know some parts are good to eat but as a zombie all of it is contaminated. So really, I would not eat zombie flesh period because tissue and liquids are far-gone contaminated with the virus - not to mention the score of other diseases growing on/in it - and you'd be pretty dumb to try and eat a rotting human being (or crazy).

Edit: Not to mention that becoming a zombie is not like a vampire thing - where you get bitten and you transform. Zombies are made from (generally) a virus that kills people with symptoms similar to the flu. Once the person dies, their corpse is then reanimated after a day or so (I've seen the time change from minutes to hours) and they then perform their zombie habits. What kills a zombie generally is either destroying the brain, cutting it off from the body, or enough internal damage that it kills the body (such as being totally flatten, high-speed vehicle hits, extensive gunfire, vaporization from bombs, etc.). This means a zombie can survive tons of abuse - and - as long as it is still connected to the brain, body parts can move (examples are Walking Dead where walkers cut in half still live or sometimes heads can survive a long time after being cut off). But the rules change a bit depending on the universe the zombie exists.

[Stolen Idol]

Studies exacuted by the head priests here in Stolel Idol don't know but we will force someone to figure it out for us. We have been working on a cure. What we can confirm as a fact that biting a zombie does not turn it human.

Our current theory is that since humans must die after a bite. That if a zombie is brought back to life after being bit by a human it will undo the curse. Such theory is currently under testing. We will let you know of the results.