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The Human Immune System
13-07-2014, 02:33 PM (This post was last modified: 13-07-2014 02:35 PM by A Gu088.)
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RE: The Human Immune System
(13-07-2014 10:11 AM)Lucia Wrote:  
(12-07-2014 04:14 PM)A Gu Wrote:  I never said Spanish flu was 100% lethal. But if you were doing the research, you'd have found that the immune system actually made the disease WORSE due to a cytokine storm - a massive immune system positive feedback loop which overloads the body, which is why the majority of the casualties were in previously healthy people - children and elders didn't have as strong an immune system, so the disease was less deadly.

Yes the research you refer to was conducted on Macaque monkeys using a viral strain carefully cultured from a frozen corpse buried in the Alaskan permafrost. But the fact is that 80 to 90% of people who caught the disease in the early 1900's survived it, so their immune systems must have been able to handle it just fine.

And I realize you never claimed that Spanish flu was 100% lethal, but in Plague Inc, every disease is 100% infective and - without medical attention - 100% lethal. Not even the worst diseases in human history were anything close to that.

I would like to see a realistic factor like Immunity used to increase difficulty in the game rather than have increasingly clairvoyant doctors reacting with superhuman speed.

So you're telling me that, despire researchers who know what they're doing claiming that a healthy immune system made the disease worse, they're wrong and you're right? What? People survived because their immune system wasn't overreacting, not because it was strong - a person with a very strong immune system could die within hours of getting symptoms.

I was trying to help you with your idea, but you're just acting like an idiot. In real life, you'll never be able to infect every person on the planet with a disease, unless it was weaponized - get over it, it's a game.
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The Human Immune System - Lucian - 09-07-2014, 10:02 PM
RE: The Human Immune System - A Guy - 09-07-2014, 11:06 PM
RE: The Human Immune System - Lucian - 09-07-2014, 11:40 PM
RE: The Human Immune System - A Guy - 10-07-2014, 02:28 AM
RE: The Human Immune System - A Guy - 12-07-2014, 04:14 PM
RE: The Human Immune System - Lucian - 12-07-2014, 08:02 PM
RE: The Human Immune System - A Guy - 13-07-2014, 12:19 AM
RE: The Human Immune System - Lucian - 13-07-2014, 10:11 AM
RE: The Human Immune System - A Guy - 13-07-2014 02:33 PM
RE: The Human Immune System - Lucian - 13-07-2014, 02:58 PM
RE: The Human Immune System - A Guy - 13-07-2014, 04:05 PM
RE: The Human Immune System - Lucian - 13-07-2014, 04:41 PM
RE: The Human Immune System - A Guy - 13-07-2014, 06:27 PM
RE: The Human Immune System - Lucian - 21-07-2014, 02:04 AM

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