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ALL POSTSIs there another way to develop a cordyceps cure? (SPOILER ALERT!)
<p>In the beggining of the game you learn that Ellie is immune to the CBI by showing a bite on her arm that is about 1 week old. Near the very end of the main story wehn you bring Ellie to the hospital Marlene implies that the only way to find how Ellie is immune to CBI is that she needs to undergo braiin surgery. But the way Joel reacted when he heard this had me confused, probably because he thought the surgery would kill her. Marlene also thought the surgery would kill her, but right now most operations on the brain donk't result in the patients death. Maybe the suegeons wouldn't be able to stop Ellie's brain fluids form leaking, or they didn't kknow her blood type so they wouldn't be able to give her a transfusion. Maybe because the fungus grows in and around the brain the surgeneos may have to damage Ellie's brain in order to extract the fungus to study it. Then i thought, well the fungus most likey travels to the brain by the host's blood stream maybe some of the fungus was still in Ellie's blood stream, if this were the case the surgeons would've been able to take some of the fungus directly from her blood or extract some of her blood and filter out the fungus (I don't know how that would work) and study that way. One more thing, what if it isn't the type of mutation of hte virus Ellie has? what if it's just her immune system that is resistant to the fungus, this wold be another reason to studie Ellies blood.
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<p>I removed your reply to your opening post as it was identical to your opening post; I assume it was unintentional.
</p><p>While it's true that modern brain surgery has taken leaps and bounds of improvements in recent years, one has to remember that they're living 30 years into an apocalyptic future. Some services are going to be more primitive than they were before.
</p><p>I think it's fairly ridiculous that in order to make ANY progress on the CBI disease, the surgeons HAD to kill Ellie. She probably has all sorts of antibodies floating around in her veins, couldn't they at least try to take a sample first and work from there? There's no guarantee, either, that after they remove the stuff they can definitely reverse engineer a cure.
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<p>I agree with Brainwasher. There is no guarantee of a cure being found either way. The Fireflies do mention having some success with a passive vaccine years ago, but no progress since then.
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<p><span style="font-size:14px;font-weight:normal;">Cordyceps is a fungus, and fungi normally have around 36 000 known genders. What if the varient of cordyceps that created the infection was not just one but several thousands of genders? Would that have made a single difference in how effective the vaccine would be? If this is the case, and the infection in Ellie is of an entirely different gender, how would the vaccine even be of use? </span>
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<p>- and if inherited, adding the possibility of an entire family of immune humans - descendants of Ellie
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<p>I just really, really worry about the mental well being of much of the TLoU community.
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