Too many sci-fi movies make it seem like you’ve got minutes before catastrophic symptoms appear after being exposed, but what’s the most realistic timeframe for an infection to cause a severe response?
Too many sci-fi movies make it seem like you’ve got minutes before catastrophic symptoms appear after being exposed, but what’s the most realistic timeframe for an infection to cause a severe response?
Theoretical zombifying pathogens have a few additional hurdles to pass. One, they can’t destroy your tissue, because it’s still necessary to operate the body. Two, they need access to your brain, which your body has a natural barrier protecting. Pathogens have a hard time getting in unless they start very nearby. Third, it’d have to alter your brain in such a way that a lot of behavior was left intact without destroying basic motor function and some simple logic.
This just isn’t easy to do. Probably would require some kind of super spiffy sci fi nanotechnology to actually pull off. Like, if Tony injected his fanciest suit’s nanites into your body and controlled them remotely, he might be able to ask Jarvis (or whoever it was, I forget) to zombify you.
Theoretically.
We can only hope that the “zombie-ant fungus” never figures out a way to bypass human defence mechanisms. LOL
Thanks for the explanation. I really appreciate the insight.
We have something kinda like that, it’s called rabies.