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Hmm. Perhaps I mis-remembered. In any case, the Wikipedia article says it was a "vampire", but they're not always reliable and it's an uncitated source.

And Dio explicitly states that Jonathan will "become a zombie". If not during the scene where he's holding onto Jonathan's carotid, it's when he's swooping in for the finishing blow before Jonathan lights his fist on his fire and defeats him with the Scarlet Overdrive.