Can Zombies Be Considered Vampires Lite?

Brian Moakley over at A Word On Fire bring us another quandary for the zombie fan to ponder. Are Zombies just another form of vampire. They are both dead, they both multiply by biting its victims. There is certainly something there.

Personally, a lot of monsters add and take away from other monsters. Werewolves also bite and infect their victims. These days it seems like a lot of horror movies like to mix in some science fiction by making their monster created by or transmitting some virus that makes them into monsters. So is every monster, alien, whatever that is spread by infectious means a vampire? No.

What are your thoughts?