So if an immortal (i.e. Highlander) got infected with Rage (from 28 Days Later) would he be all zombie-ragey all the time? Or would he eventually die of starvation like all the other ragists and when he came back to life he’d be normal again? Or would his magic immortality factor prevent him from getting Rage at all?
In the same vein (heh!), if a vampire chowed down on a ragist, would he be undead ragey or would he be immune to the effects of Rage.
The latter I suspect. They seem pretty highly resistant to most everything.
That would depend on the vampire type naturally. The walking corpses, the crystalline glitterers, and other really inhuman types ought to be immune. And some of the still living types are canonically immune to disease. On the other hand, the varieties of vampires that are just a type of humanlike predator/parasite species could easily get infected.
I thought they could get diseases and starve to death, but once they died (or the disease killed them), they’d just come back. Or is that only the case the first time you die. Canon varies a bit with all the media incarnations.
IIRC, Amanda originally died from the Black Death, resulting in her very first resurrection, but I don’t remember if she ever even got a case of the sniffles after that.
Oh, right. If they are undead, they don’t really have the body functions that would keep a virus going.
Good point. Vampires that aren’t actually dead, like Thomas Raith and Ivy Tamwood, not to mention Blade, would likely be a lot worse off than vampires who have no living processes going on.
I wonder, though, about the actually-dead vampires who seem to have some biological processes (Anita Blake vampires can on rare occasions father children, and Sookie Stackhouse’s can get a form of hepatitis,) would being mostly inhuman protect them?
I completely misunderstood the thread title and had a mental image of this (Youtube link). Think of it as an illustration.
I think he’d get the disease, eventually die from it, and his magical immortal reset would cure him as readily as it not only heals gunshots but presumably causes lodged bullets to disappear.
Against a virus yes; viruses without the proper living cells to parasitize are just inanimate lumps. They need something living they can hijack.