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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Replying to @arthur_affect @muddlewait
Yeah he did, but if I recall it was bc he got jumped by more people If it slowed the progression at least you'd still have people trying it - see Travis Willingham being all "you gotta hurry to find Abby before that infection sets in"
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Like Tess would totally have looked her arm off to last longer protecting Ellie
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It was a bite on her shoulder blade right up against her neck, the collar of her shirt was covering it Kinda hard to amputate that part and survive, especially in the field
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Replying to @arthur_affect @muddlewait
True. As we learned in detail in Part II
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