How did Gerry know the zombie transformation time was 10 seconds?

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In World War Z, we come across a zombie apocalyptic plot featuring Brad Pitt as Gerry being the main character.

The movie starts off with sudden panic arising in the streets, and then an explosion, followed by terror and screaming people being followed by mysteriously behaving people quickly discovered to be zombies. It is apparent that no one would have stayed behind to time how long it took for someone to transform into a zombie, which would lead to an easy death of the observer.

So after Gerry fights off the zombies on the stairs, he's on top of the building leaning over the edge of the roof appearing to be counting, with his family behind him watching in fright but unaware what he was actually doing. He soon excused himself to have gotten it in his mouth. As seen:

How did he know about the 10 seconds and when did he find out



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How did he know about the 10 seconds and when did he find out

Because he watched it happen earlier and counted.

There is a scene early in the movie when Gerry first encounters the spread of the zombie disease. He witnesses someone being infected and counts how long it takes for the infected person to be transformed into a zombie.




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How long did it take to turn into a zombie in World War Z?

Once bitten, you turn zombie in 12 seconds and live to bite others and spread the infection further. These zombies can run, jump and swarm into towers that allow them to scale walls.

What does Gerry do in order to camouflage himself from the zombies?

Three days later, Gerry awakens and explains his theory \u2013 that the zombies ignore sick, terminally ill or seemingly weak or severely injured people as they are unsuitable hosts for the infection \u2013 to WHO employees. He suggests injecting themselves with a deadly pathogen to act as a "camouflage" against the zombies.

What did Gerry inject himself with in World War Z?

So, Gerry injects himself with a deadly pathogen in the vault in a final bid to escape, so that the virus will "sense" the host body is not healthy and avoid him.

How did the zombie get on the plane Wwz?

Here at 0:23 you can see that the zombie comes out from a kind of elevator (not a washroom), so it probably was stuck in a lower level of the plane, and was freed when the hostess called the elevator.



World War Z (2/10) Movie CLIP - 12 Seconds to Infection (2013) HD




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