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I just want to mention one last thing.

Araki seems to imply towards the end of Part 1 that zombies, like vampires, can turn other people into zombies. Wang Chen, the Chinese merchant that Dio turned into a zombie after the Joestar mansion fire, tells Jonathan that he drank the blood of a human on the ship, which is why the rest of the ship was then overrun with zombies (and how Lisa Lisa's mother got killed).

What's more, @MetallicKaiser, this could create a discrepancy with how you theorise that vampires "usually don't create zombies either". After Jonathan cut Dio's head in half with his Ripple-charged 'Luck & Pluck' sword and Dio countered by grabbing his carotid artery and freezing him, Dio said that he was going to make him a zombie by exchanging Jonathan's life force for his own and inserting his "vampire extract" - even though Jonathan wasn't yet dead.

So that appears to imply that Dio has the ability to turn even alive people into zombies, before they're dead. (Unless Dio doesn't know what he's talking about, or was planning to wait until Jonathan was dead - either from the blood-drinking or just being frozen to death and shattered like Dire or something - before he 'activated' the vampire extract to turn him into a zombie.)

Either way, it's not something that Araki ever explored in great detail, and he likely just forgot about all the in-and-out details by Part 3, since Stands had taken over precedent (yet he still found it necessary to give Dio the flesh bud ability, but not have him use the Space Ripper Stingy Eyes, for whatever reason).