Improve this question. Cyn says make Monica whole They basically prove that it is possible sans the speed , though getting specific effects could require a lot of experiments and research.
Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. But changes as drastic as those shown in 28 days later? That's a bit more of a stretch. So a weaker, slower spreading version? As shown in the films? Improve this answer. Tim B Tim B Basically the same changes that in mice increase the risk of getting eaten by a cat, except in humans they increase the risk of having a car accident. One of these changes includes continuously pumping adrenaline into the host's system, giving the Infected odd feats of strength, agility, endurance especially in pursuit of the uninfected.
However this hormonal distribution places enormous stress on their metabolism. The infected sprinters act with no regard for self preservation and will not act to evade mortal danger.
Due to the lack in self preservation sprinters often become disinterested in self nourishment, this will eventually lead to physical exhaustion, coma, and lastly death caused by starvation. The virus enters the circulatory system and is quick to manifest itself into the victim, causing symptoms within hours and full infiltration within a 24 hour period.
As the virus infiltrates the host, they experience a spasmodic effect. Shaking and or shuddering of the outer extremities in a rapid manner. Following that seizures and frothing of the mouth will occur as symptoms progress. Copious amounts of infected blood is continually gibbered out of the mouth area because of deliquescent organs. Depending on how much infected blood and saliva entered the wound, could potentially change the time of infiltration. The virus passes through bodily fluids.
Some people may possess a hereditary immunity, allowing them to become infected with the virus without exhibiting any of its usual symptoms. These people would remain carriers of the infection, and can transmit it through blood-saliva contact and saliva exchange. In the film 28 Weeks Later it is shown that there are certain people who, while not immune to the virus in the truest sense, can carry the virus without any physical or psychological changes, except for one - a reddening of parts of the left eye.
These people are classified as "asymptomatic carriers" possibly a mistake by the scientists in the film, as the eye change is technically a symptom. A carrier will not become uncontrollably violent like other infected and will otherwise be unaffected by the presence of the virus. A carrier can, of course, still spread the virus as they still carry it in their blood and saliva. Engineering manipulation is very interesting but dangerous too. I'm curious about the definition of "mindless killing machine" I haven't seen the film in question , because the aggression of rabid animals is often both mindless and lethal.
The biggest flaw that I see is that it follows the rabies scenario. There's just one problem with that:. Rabid animals do not like rabid animals. It's not as if everything that isn't rabid is "Team Blue" and everything that is becomes "Team Red".
There would be a lot of red-on-red murder going on, which would greatly diminish the staying power of the disease, and not just in the case of rage virus, but pretty much every zompocalypse scenario The other aspect is human psychology and brain chemestry is incredibly complex.
It's one thing for a fungi to be able to control ants over millions of years of evolution ants are reletively simple by comparison , it's quite another to force a human into specific behavior. It's possible to induce insanity and increased aggression, but it wouldn't be perfect.
The latter would almost certainly have to be an engineered chimera, which would be almost useless as a bioweapon as it would work too slow to be militarilly effective and pretty much garaunteed to bite you in the ass for using it Valid bioweapons would be designed to burn fast and hard, but would be unlikely to cause an apocalyptic scenario "Outbreak" has a good example of a fictional virus that might be capable of this. Other scenarios include non-biologics like a Von Neumann-esque nanovirus "Grey Goo" scenario or non-living organisms unaffected by defensive immunities Andromeda Strain , but those are even less likely.
I could not see a virus that causes constant adrenaline release in a specimen by its own adrenal gland. However, I could see a virus that while in the host body controls the host to carry out particular motor functions. The Zombie-Ant parasite doesn't infect herbivores.
It's one of many species of the Ophicordyceps fungus, each of which kills an insect, grows from the insect, releases spores into the air, and kills other insects of the same species. Quantum entanglement allows correlations to appear over a distance without respect to timing. It doesn't allow for the transmission of any information over those distances at faster than light speeds, which makes it rather difficult to use as any kind of medium for faster-than-light communication or thinking.
The problem with rabies virus is that in reality it travels so slowly that after being bitten, you could still give the rabies vaccine as a treatment as there is enough time for adaptive immunity to develop.
The lytic viral cycle requires entering host cell, viral genomic replication, transcription, translation, and post translational modification and assembly. This is not a biochemical process that could occur in seconds, because viral proteins need to be mass-produced from a few strands of genetic material.
A more plausible mode of infection may be something like an ultrafast prion disease that only requires protein modification and aggregation. Kakwok, good point you makes regarding the infection agent relying on host metabolism as a limiting factor.
This is why a highly pathogenic prion agent may be interesting. I don't think proteins are considered living. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy! Already have an account? Sign in here.
We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings , otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue. From that point on, the Infected will seek out and viciously attacks any uninfected person above any other goal else, even self-preservation and self-nourishment. The disease is easily transmissible through any bodily fluid.
Because of this extreme contagiousness and very short incubation time, thousands within one area could be infected through one single Infected in under an hour. Rage is a recombinant strain of Ebola , and while its psychological symptoms are more like those of Rabies , it does retain some of the physiological symptoms of Ebola red eyes, internal and external hemorrhaging and bleeding.
The Rage Virus is also bloodborne and capable of infecting only primates; characteristics which it presumably retained from the Ebola Virus it mutated from. Certain people such as Alice and Andy Harris possess a natural immunity to the symptoms of the Rage Virus; if the Virus infects one of these immune people, they will become a carrier of the disease but will remain immune to its effects.
Carriers are still capable of infecting others though, as their blood and saliva still carries the Virus, but they will not display any symptoms of Infection themselves except for the left eye's sclera partially turning red. Alice Harris' bloodshot left eye; the only apparent symptom of infection seen in Carriers. Billingsworth 's statement that the American black operation in Scotland had found evidence of Carriers would suggest that there were other Carriers besides Alice and Andy ; Alice was killed by her infected husband, Don, due to kissing her, and Andy's fate after landing in recently-infected France is unknown.
Scarlet Levy believed that a Carrier's blood could be used to find a vaccine or possibly even a cure for Infection, but Alice was killed by her infected husband and her body incinerated during the Code Red firebombing, and Andy's fate and whereabouts after the Rage Virus spread to France is unknown.
Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Rage Virus. View source.
0コメント