There's this bug that can occur with the infected where if you aggro them, and they start chasing after you; You can just keep blocking/backing up, and they'll keep stopping before they can attack you.
Seems like it happens when the server performance becomes low or something? (I was playing on DayZ Village server, which is a Vanilla server, and it was high population, but not near or above 60 I believe.)
I have about 150 ping connection to them according to the server browser, but it does happen with slightly modified servers like The Chipotle Bandits, which I have 100ping too.