[the_old_crowd] Re: Some questions

[Randy Estes]

--- Barry Arrowsmith <arrowsmithbt at ...>
wrote:

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> > Pippin:
> > I got the impression nobody knew whether it would
> be contagious
> > because werewolves usually have no urge to bite
> when they're not
> > transformed. 
> > 
> 
> Yet they are worried - about 'contamination' and
> possible 'behavioural 
> changes'. And a behavioural change does happen; he
> develops a great liking
> for very rare steaks. The implication is that there
> is contamination, though
> minor.
> 
> OK. A bit of nit-picking. Partly as a reader who
> does't like special pleading
> from authors, partly ex-professional. 
> Ignore this bit if you get bored easily.
> Dunno about you, but I've never come across partial
> were-wolf infections,
> or partial or full natural resistance to such
> infections before. It's an either/or,
> yes/no type of thing. Get bit and it's hairy pelt
> time for you, my son. Can 
> anyone point to a contrary example? 
> 
> Reverting to my previous existence as a medical
> microbiologist/virologist 
> there's no obvious reason why transmission can't
> occur while in human form 
> - the full-blown disease state may not be being
> fully expressed, but the individual
> is still loaded to the gun'nuls with the infective
> agent, albeit in the quiescient
> state. To get the more-or-less instantaneous full
> body change we see in PoA
> all tissues would have to carry the morphing agent,
> therefore any transfer of
> tissue or fluid and the w-w factor, active or
> passive, gets passed on. If it's
> passive - just adding a full moon will fix that
> state of affairs and get 'em up 
> and running in the new victim soon enough - all
> that's needed is a means of
> transfer - an inclination to bite - or an altruistic
> desire to help his fellow
> man by donating organs for transplant after finally
> succumbing to canine
> distemper would do it. Maybe that's why they don't
> seem to encourage such
> practices in the WW. 

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>  
> Kneasy
>   



Perhaps the infection of Bill allows a natural
immunity to develop or create a vaccine that will
eventually allow Lupin to have a normal life for once.
 That could be the purpose for the whole Fenrir bites
people all the time plot.

I know alot of you hate happy endings, so you may not
like that scenario.

Randy


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