SuperFerret
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SpeedballLives said:I keep reading about a virus.
what does it do to a person?
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LibrarianThorne said:I described its effects in one of my posts a few weeks ago. Essentially, it's a viral infection that directly attacks the nervous system, and has a biological ability to destroy white blood cells that try to stop it. It's also incredibly fast acting, and has managed to kill hundreds of thousands in Metropolis in only a few days.
Red X said:Yet it had very different affects on Luthor.

We were there when it was released.Trigger said:I just read Speedball's last post, so um...I guess that means the aforementioned virus is still loose in Metropolis?
Red X said:Yet it had very different affects on Luthor.
Lex also has peak human physical fitness, so maybe that could affect his reaction to the virus as well.Purple Man said:Maybe the virus has a different effect on Luthor because he is in a clone body.
Luthor being the human componet for Superboy makes a lot more sense when you realize that Lex was already a clone himself when Superboy was created.
Or you two can keep arguing, that's fine too.
But if you're willing to settle with my solution, spare me the trouble of looking for it and let me know how the virus affected Luthor so maybe I could have Conner react in a similar way.
LibrarianThorne said:Okay, X and I took our arguement to MSN, and there we determined that I am, in fact, a jerk. I apologized to him on MSN, and I'm apologizing here for my earlier post.
Red X said:I could have also gone about that better myself. Lets call it water under the bridge and be done with it.
Any who LT and I discussed this and there seems to be some confusion over the virus, which is in part my fault for never giving a definite account of it.
So to the best of mine, as always its subject to change.
The Genesis Strain Virus (named by Corp)
Symptoms and affects: Severe sweating and dehydration followed later by convolutions of the heart which lead to a heart attack.
How do you get infected? The virus enters the body by either consumption of the Metropolises water supply or being in close proximity with someone infected. Note: while the virus still works at an accelerated rate, it takes slightly longer than it did with Luthor because the virus has been watered down from being mixed with water.
How does the virus work? The virus works by black cells attacking the bodies the red blood cells thus limiting the blood that can get to the heart, which means the has to heart pump faster and faster with little blood. The black cells also eliminate the white bloods cells so theres nothing to fend off the virus and the body begins to break down. The virus can also mutant to affect other humanoid species like Korugarians.
I hope this clears things up.
wiegeabo said:Meh, just say it has slightly different effects on different people because of mutations. And as fast acting as this virus is, having it mutate like crazy to avoid typical cures/vaccines makes sense. Without meaning to, I've sort of backed that idea up with my posts about the virus fighting against Sinestro, and since it has to adapt to immune systems anyway...