Zombies scare the crap out of me, Corpus is like 78 levels beyond that in creepy factor, especially with their rambling. I will deal with 674708 cliffracers at once.... but if there's a ton of corpus....Looks like I won't be sleeping for 8 more weeks.
Corpus disease ended shortly after the Nerevarine dealt with Dagoth Ur and the Heart of Lorkhan. You MIGHT run accross a few corpus-derganged people, but I think most of them are gone now.
We have new creatures called Ash Spawns and Hermaeus Mora's lesser daedra to go off of these Corprus theories. I really don't think corprus will play a role in this DLC.