Wow, this is definitely helpful. Thanks for posting this; I've been wanting to know more about these crab bites and why they are so dangerous (aside from the excrutiatingly pain, of course). How good do your prospects look for making more progress with your research in the future?
I might recommend you talk to Robert Neville about this; he mentioned at the party that he's a virologist. I can't say I would be much help, unfortunately; I'm better at telling you the carbon dating of a piece of rock or how long it took the Chinese to invent firecrackers.
As far as further prospects... I'm really more of a biologist than a doctor, so I'm planning on doing a detailed look at the crabs to figure out where this comes from.
Problem is, it's not ethical to let the infected people get worse just so we can look at it.
That sounds pretty interesting. Have you had a chance to study any live? Those things look like they would not be fun to try and capture while they're still moving.
Yee-ah...I can't imagine you'd have too many volunteers for that. At least you respect ethics; I knew a few scientists who probably wouldn't have been opposed to that. Let's not go there.
[Private to Team Science, Fran Madaraki, Rebecca Chambers; difficult to hack]rnevilleFebruary 11 2009, 20:09:13 UTC
So the total series duration of the illness is - at best - a month?
We can work with that. Let's get together some time, I'd like to have a look at your samples. There's a few tests we can do to see if it's a virus. Then at least we'll know what we're up against.
I don't know the duration, exactly... I've never seen somebody sick with it for over a month. Dr. Madaraki was about a month into it and she looked like she had one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel, if you know what I mean.
You're... you were at the bar that day, weren't you? You some kind of biologist, sí?
Virology is my specialty, and yes. I'm Dr. Robert Neville.
I was neck-deep in an epidemic before I was brought here, so I've got a little experience with this sort of thing. I can't tell you how close to dead your Dr. Madaraki was without a little more detail, but if she was as bad as she seemed, then a month is probably as far as we want to assume, since we've got the means to cure it.
The nature of the illness might tell us something about the monsters themselves.
Luis Sera. I do some dabbling but I specialize in parasitology and microbiology.
An epidemic, eh? Join the club, amigo. I did extensive, ah... work with the Las Plagas parasites before I... got here. I managed to make a suppressant then, but medicine isn't really my specialty, so I was planning on studying the crabs themselves for my next priority.
I would have included more about Dr. Madaraki, but. Well. She's a little strange and I can't tell what was infection and what was normal for her.
8D you just got hacked (Private to Luis)plz2bconductorFebruary 11 2009, 20:18:01 UTC
Now that information is very interesting indeed. It's amazing how serious the condition gets the longer you are infected.
Do you really believe you can create a vaccine to heal this infection? I do not doubt that with the multitude of knowledge and miracles of science it could be possible... But entirely how probable is it?
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I might recommend you talk to Robert Neville about this; he mentioned at the party that he's a virologist. I can't say I would be much help, unfortunately; I'm better at telling you the carbon dating of a piece of rock or how long it took the Chinese to invent firecrackers.
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As far as further prospects... I'm really more of a biologist than a doctor, so I'm planning on doing a detailed look at the crabs to figure out where this comes from.
Problem is, it's not ethical to let the infected people get worse just so we can look at it.
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Yee-ah...I can't imagine you'd have too many volunteers for that. At least you respect ethics; I knew a few scientists who probably wouldn't have been opposed to that. Let's not go there.
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...Y'know, it occurs to me that we ought to try gettin' us another live crab for study. Know anyone who'd be up for it?
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...Not me. I can shoot if my life depends on it but I'm not really the action type, you know?
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I do that kind of thing all the time.
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We can work with that. Let's get together some time, I'd like to have a look at your samples. There's a few tests we can do to see if it's a virus. Then at least we'll know what we're up against.
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You're... you were at the bar that day, weren't you? You some kind of biologist, sí?
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I was neck-deep in an epidemic before I was brought here, so I've got a little experience with this sort of thing. I can't tell you how close to dead your Dr. Madaraki was without a little more detail, but if she was as bad as she seemed, then a month is probably as far as we want to assume, since we've got the means to cure it.
The nature of the illness might tell us something about the monsters themselves.
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An epidemic, eh? Join the club, amigo. I did extensive, ah... work with the Las Plagas parasites before I... got here. I managed to make a suppressant then, but medicine isn't really my specialty, so I was planning on studying the crabs themselves for my next priority.
I would have included more about Dr. Madaraki, but. Well. She's a little strange and I can't tell what was infection and what was normal for her.
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Do you really believe you can create a vaccine to heal this infection? I do not doubt that with the multitude of knowledge and miracles of science it could be possible... But entirely how probable is it?
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Well I don't like to brag, but I've come up with something similar before for a different kind of infection. It's in the cards.
How in the cards would a date with you be, though?
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Keep dealing the cards and we'll see.
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