Oh, I assure you it can.
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The director himself has refered to it as a zombie film.
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Excellent idea - now the kids have a new zombie film to pay to go and watch, and boy do the kids love their zombies.
Zombies sell, "still alive but infected with a disease and running about not eating people" probably not so much.
However, the first definition in the Oxford English Dictionary is of a revived corpse - nothing about eating people, but Romero firmly lodged this element into the contemporary zombie. Boyle's new 'take' lacks the crucial 'death' element (so they are free to run about at speed), they do not eat people but like to vomit disease into potential vicitims.
You can probably find definitions that juggle the meanings of 'zombie' around in order of importance (for there is always a first and foremost definition of a word), but it's hard to argue with the above source - and the lesser meanings are subjective, making Boyle's creatures are just too far removed from zombies for many people.