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I think what he meant was that any genuinely dead body can be reanimated, Yoush. One thing we know is that certain Mamono can be created using a human male, like the Alps. Similarly, according to the entries for ghosts and skeletons, both can form from either male or female humans, but the resultant Mamono is still female. For example, the souls of human males that refuse to pass to the afterlife transform into female ghosts, and the bones of a human male can be used by a necromancer to create a female skeleton. So it may be possible that male corpses can reanimate as female zombies. Of course, it also may very well be that the only Mamono that can be created using men are the ones I just mentioned; the Alps, Ghost and Skeleton. I'm not entirely certain.

Also, the interview page was recently updated, and according to one of the new questions asked of KC, at the very least dead human men actually can be reanimated as undead incubi. They're not technically zombies, though. They're still an incubus. Just...not quite as alive.

Regarding the parasites...

I'm honestly not certain. I'd personally think that the humans in Order territory would actively do everything they could to stamp out as many of them as they can, whether the parasites are ropers, matango, or something else we haven't yet seen. But we also know that the Matango, specifically, produce a LOT of spores. So...no idea.