Zeds at the moment tend to attack pretty damn quickly, and even on a 4 pop, 50 ping server most of the zeds I attack hit me on my previous location, and do way too much damage with too much speed. The damage is fine, it's just the speed of the animation that is really bad, as in DayZ mod bad. If a person swings that fast, there is no way in HELL that they will do as much damage as they do now. If they are not really zeds, and just infected humans, then there is no possible way that they do so much damage with that much speed.
I suggest reducing their attack speed and movement speed.