[That's not a fear he's unused to seeing, maybe even feeling it himself a long time ago.]

Oh not in the way you're thinking. S'not a virus, can't get bit or scratched and you turn.

[Even though he may look like what people would call a zombie, it works different.]

Now if one've you put me down and turned me into dinner, probably get a good ol' dose of radiation poisoning. Wouldn't recommend it.

[Killing and eating him or the radiation poisoning? Both? Shrugs.]