I ... Everyone is still infected and will turn no matter how they die. Even after they kill people, they always stab them in the head so they don't turn.
I think the bite just accelerates the death.
There are just so many holes in the show's logic. So everyone is already infected, and turn no matter how they may die... thus you stab everyone in the head upon death. And your statement is that a bite just accelerates the death? Why? Is there an infection to the bite? A venom? If everyone is already infected then it wouldn't be a venom turning people. But for so long, the show tried to make it about the venom in the bites.... I mean, Hershel Greene was bit on the leg, so they chopped off the leg, why? Much like a poisonous snake bite, it was to stop the venom from moving through the blood, no? So many damn holes in their rules. :lol