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I bet you 10-to-1 that the kid who dropped dead died from the Zombie Virus that makes them all turn into Walkers when they die. My guess is that:

1) Unlike Rick and the rest, he was uninfected.
2) He became infected when he came into contact with Daryl's saliva.
3) The zombie virus kills most people that it comes into contact with.

Part C has actually been my theory from the start, because there's no way the Zombie Apocalypse could've happened if all the virus did was turn people into Walkers when they died for whatever reason. Not enough people die every day to produce enough Walkers to obliterate civilization. The virus had to have killed people, too, and fast, for civilization to have become overwhelmed so quickly without anyone really knowing what was going on or how it happened.

Given that this kid dropped dead less than 12 hours after getting sick and IMMEDIATELY came back as a Walker, that explains how the apocalypse went down. The virus spreads, a large chunk of the population is killed off by the virus within hours of infection and they immediately come back as Walkers. That would produce more than enough zombies to obliterate civilization in a short amount of time without anyone really understanding how it happened.

Wow-you should be a screen writer. LOL That all fits in very well and makes sense.

You’re right about the saliva...I thought it strange that Daryl licked his fingers and then shook hands with the kid. It came across as kind of nasty.

Now they have at least one Walker in their living quarters and it’s going to get more intense by the week.

Perhaps the kid got some other disease from something, and went untreated for too long.
That brain eating amoeba could have done it:

“It takes two to 15 days for symptoms to appear after N. fowleri amoebas enter the nose. Death usually occurs three to seven days after symptoms appear. The average time to death is 5.3 days from symptom onset. Only a handful of patients worldwide have been reported to have survived an infection.”
http://www.webmd.com/brain/brain-eating-amoeba?page=2

“I bet you 10-to-1 that the kid who dropped dead died from the Zombie Virus that makes them all turn into Walkers when they die. My guess is that...”

The guy from the CDC said that everyone was infected so Patrick likely already had the virus. My guess is that the virus is now mutating and starting to kill the carriers. I also think it is starting to infect animals since Violet the pig and the animal in the woods both had strange mottling of the skin and labored breathing.