I dunno, it initially infected people by them eating it Although there's some implication I guess that this only happened because they'd been unwittingly consuming it for a long time
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Replying to @arthur_affect @muddlewait
Sure, but bites are also 100% infectious in lore, so Ellie biting Abby would presumably possibly make her infected unless Ellie's strain isn't transmissible (which if so is weird)
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If you mean re: the STI thing, I mean, we see people breathing some spores in visible spore-clouded air and it's not a definite infection; I feel like sex juices, bluntly, probably contain very few spores
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Also, you eat food with your teeth, which are bone, so that could be how it started. Not in the blood, but the bone
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @muddlewait
You could take a significant sample of bone from someone without killing them Even losing an arm is better than death
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Replying to @arthur_affect @muddlewait
Well, remember there was the series of artifacts in Left Behind where a FEDRA squad discovered you could counter the infection by cutting off the infected limb in time, but then all died Would have been nice of Ellie to tell... anyone .. that
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Like, that's definitely canon. You can cut the bite area and it will at least probably stop the infection. Only Ellie knows that, and she's never told anyone. You'd think the docs in the Seattle hospital would have tried that with their literal thousands of patients too
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @muddlewait
ISTR he did die anyway though? The wiki says it's ambiguous if what she did actually cured him or if it just greatly slowed the progression (In The Walking Dead it's the latter and prolonging someone's life by amputation is considered a cruel act)
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He's still feverish and has bouts of delirium and does, in fact, end up turning on her and killing her in a fit of paranoia We don't know if this is actually the Cordyceps or the result of the many other factors damaging his physical and mental health
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And in that struggle the wound from his amputation reopened, leading to him bleeding out shortly after, meaning the question of whether it cured him remains unresolved by his death (too late to examine the corpse now too because he's a skeleton)
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I feel like, given how much time and energy Jerry is stated to have sunk into this project before giving up on it and then suddenly having his faith rekindled by Ellie, this has got to be something they tried and found unviable one way or another
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Replying to @arthur_affect @muddlewait
Admittedly, cordyceps scientists are kinda weird and actually do like to dissect brains. Like I was reading an article on the current state of ant cordyceps research and the latest big study literally involved melting ant brains to expose brain soup to different strains
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @muddlewait
Well yeah the whole way rl Cordyceps works is it's straight up replacing a brain with a computer made of fungus
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