Poll: INFECTION!!

[enzilewulf]

Trojan virus

Hmmmmmmmmmm I would say my virus in Pandemic or what ever that online game is. I got every last place. HAHAH!

 

[mikespoff]

They're all pretty samey really.
You want a real horrible virus. Try Necrotizing fasciitis.

I hate to be so picky, but (as horrible as it is) necrotizing fasciitis is a condition caused by bacterial infection.

The fact that it's real does make it worse than any of the poll options, though...

 

[neonnightlite]

Trojan virus

Hmmmmmmmmmm I would say my virus in Pandemic or what ever that online game is. I got every last place. HAHAH!

That game is IMPOSSIBLE!!!
There's no way anybody could've beat it!

 

[Jackson - Deathclaw]

Agent Smith

or conversly, Humanity

 

[silver wolf009]

Man, that's a tough one.
I mean on one hand, the Blacklight virus from Prototype demonstrated time and time again that it is not to be fucked with. Turning people into zombies, making giant monsters, creating huge sentient tentacles and consuming and devouring everything it touches. Scary stuff really.

But then again, the FEV virus is responsible for the Death Claw. And anything that creates Death Claws has got to be made by Lucifer himself to turn a lovable little lizard into a flesh eating giant hell beast.

I would mention the Flood and Necromorphs but since those weren't options I'll just say I'm tied between Blacklight and FEV.

Well i was tempted to add the flood up there, but really they use an eveloutionary advantage to control the body, its not an infection. And i would love to drop a hunter in the vats just to see what comes out the other end.

 

[mikespoff]

Other.

Rotavirus kills over 500,000 children under 5 every year, some strains of Ebolavirus have motality rates of up to 90% within a few weeks.

The prions responsible for Creutzfeldt-Jakobs Disease are arguably even scarier, but the poll asked about viruses and bacteria...

 

[Colonel Alzheimer's]

Haven't played Prototype, but it seems pretty legit. That said, the Green Virus (L4D) because of what Doclector said.

Spoiler

This is the virus from left 4 dead, nicknamed "green flu" seemingly by "ceda". The advantage this has over other zombie viruses is that it can be spread not only by bites, but by pretty much the same methods as flu, although, the pre-reanimation symptoms are unknown. Posters asking people to wash their hands regularly suggest the bacteria can survive on surfaces for quite some time, meaning that not becoming infected would be alot harder than simply not being bitten, even the unturned infected would pose a threat, and it's not so easy to tell who they are. The incubation rate seems to vary, bitten infected can turn within minutes, or within days, making containment difficult. Immunity exists, but it is extremely low, and worse, these immunes could carry the virus. Even if you were immune, the sheer amount of infected would be enough to simply kill you. That's even forgetting the special infected, who seem almost designed to defy any biological containment. Tanks would crach through any wall, while hunters would simply jump over them. boomers would make clean up an issue, smokers and jockeys would make military barricades difficult to keep together. Meanwhile, chargers and spitters would kill countless already besieged survivors. Even with such vague details, such a virus could easily wipe the world out within months, years if we were lucky.

 

[Doclector]

Haven't played Prototype, but it seems pretty legit. That said, the Green Virus (L4D) because of what Doclector said.

Spoiler

This is the virus from left 4 dead, nicknamed "green flu" seemingly by "ceda". The advantage this has over other zombie viruses is that it can be spread not only by bites, but by pretty much the same methods as flu, although, the pre-reanimation symptoms are unknown. Posters asking people to wash their hands regularly suggest the bacteria can survive on surfaces for quite some time, meaning that not becoming infected would be alot harder than simply not being bitten, even the unturned infected would pose a threat, and it's not so easy to tell who they are. The incubation rate seems to vary, bitten infected can turn within minutes, or within days, making containment difficult. Immunity exists, but it is extremely low, and worse, these immunes could carry the virus. Even if you were immune, the sheer amount of infected would be enough to simply kill you. That's even forgetting the special infected, who seem almost designed to defy any biological containment. Tanks would crach through any wall, while hunters would simply jump over them. boomers would make clean up an issue, smokers and jockeys would make military barricades difficult to keep together. Meanwhile, chargers and spitters would kill countless already besieged survivors. Even with such vague details, such a virus could easily wipe the world out within months, years if we were lucky.

I had a feeling the sudden rise in votes for green flu may have had something to do with my disturbingly detailed knowledge. XD

 

[mikespoff]

They're all pretty samey really.
You want a real horrible virus. Try Necrotizing fasciitis.

I hate to be so picky, but (as horrible as it is) necrotizing fasciitis is a condition caused by bacterial infection.

The fact that it's real does make it worse than any of the poll options, though...

Yea streptococcus something or other. It's basically the same thing that causes step throat.

But I couldn't really be bothered correcting it after posting. Plus I don't think all the ones the OP mentioned are actually technical virus'. I have a feeling most Zombie related media is usually bacterial or parasitic.

But when you get rite down to it there isn't much difference between a virus and a bacteria. Asside from the fact that virus' aren't actually living organism they work pretty much the same way as bacterium... sort of.

Lol.

Well, from a biological perspective they're as different as animals are from plants, but from a sick human perspective it often doesn't make much difference.

 

[Nouw]

I read the Prototype one and thought "Holy Shit"
I read the L4D one and thought "Thank god it's a game"

I'd choose Flood but since it's not there, the Green Virus

 

[4484448444844484]

Spoiler: why the access virus of course

But really the green virus.

 

[silver wolf009]

Haven't played Prototype, but it seems pretty legit. That said, the Green Virus (L4D) because of what Doclector said.

Spoiler

This is the virus from left 4 dead, nicknamed "green flu" seemingly by "ceda". The advantage this has over other zombie viruses is that it can be spread not only by bites, but by pretty much the same methods as flu, although, the pre-reanimation symptoms are unknown. Posters asking people to wash their hands regularly suggest the bacteria can survive on surfaces for quite some time, meaning that not becoming infected would be alot harder than simply not being bitten, even the unturned infected would pose a threat, and it's not so easy to tell who they are. The incubation rate seems to vary, bitten infected can turn within minutes, or within days, making containment difficult. Immunity exists, but it is extremely low, and worse, these immunes could carry the virus. Even if you were immune, the sheer amount of infected would be enough to simply kill you. That's even forgetting the special infected, who seem almost designed to defy any biological containment. Tanks would crach through any wall, while hunters would simply jump over them. boomers would make clean up an issue, smokers and jockeys would make military barricades difficult to keep together. Meanwhile, chargers and spitters would kill countless already besieged survivors. Even with such vague details, such a virus could easily wipe the world out within months, years if we were lucky.

I had a feeling the sudden rise in votes for green flu may have had something to do with my disturbingly detailed knowledge. XD

Yeah but heres the scary part about the Green Virus, Weve only seen the effects roughly 2 weeks after inital infection. If that extreme of mutaitons happened after only 14 days, Id hate to see what happens after a month. Although there is the off chance that i could hypothetically mutate into something benign. Slim but still a possabliity.

 

[Doclector]

I see a distinct lack of T-virus in your poll.

This displeases me.

Exactly. Where is the T-Virus from Resident Evil? It kills everything and everyone in most depictions for a reason.

Except Wesker. He seems just fine from it for some reason. In fact it seems beneficial for him, he's super-human!

Ahem *puts on fanboy cap*

Spoiler

He took a dose of some sort of bacteria developed by Dr birkin in order to make it so, shortly before allowing the tyrant to kill him. Nonsensical, true, but resident evil never exelled in making sense

Trojan virus

Hmmmmmmmmmm I would say my virus in Pandemic or what ever that online game is. I got every last place. HAHAH!

That game is IMPOSSIBLE!!!
There's no way anybody could've beat it!

Even madagascar? Seriously? They close the borders and start burning all their clothes if someone coughs three countries away!

Silver wolf: Interesting, but don't give valve any ideas about new special infected they can use to justify L4D3.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

Hello escapist.

I just findshed replaying PROTOTYPE again when I looked back on the games I've played, movies I've watched, and books I've read that involve some sort of deadly virus. And I thought to myself, "which is worst?" So to the point. What virus or disease from any form of storytelling, be it a game, a book, a movie, a comic strip, a zoetrope, anything, is the worst of the worst?

Personally my vote goes either to the Blacklight Virus varient DX 1118 A.

Spoiler: prototype spoilers

Engineered to copy the best biological traits from a host, and instill them in the carrier, when introduced into a host has a delayed kill ratio of 99.999%. When no host is avaliable, the disease can manifest itself in an artifical body several times bigger and more powerful than any human.
Human host after 2 weeks of infection

Spoiler

Hunter, the viruses created body (note this is not to scale, a hunter is several feet over an human.)

Spoiler

Or the Forced Eveloution Virus.

Spoiler

Designed by the encalve goverment in the fallout games to create super soilders capable of incredable feats of strenght and endurance, the forced eveloution virus causes increased growth in both muscle mass and physical reserves. More often than not, the searing pain involved in the process severs the infecteds grap on their mind causing amnesia of their past life and decrease intelligence. However certain host have managed to retain their minds and their wits. When introduced into human hosts, the outcome is almost always a super mutant.

Spoiler

When introduced into lizards, the result is a deathclaw

Spoiler

So escapist, what disease is the worst of the worst?

haven't you heard of the REAL bacteria that came to Europe and Australia from dirty hospitals from India (i guess in reality it's from the Pharmaceuticals)?

it's called NDM-1 (pretty cool name) and it's super resistent to antibiotics, and it causes very bad infections before killing you.

 

[Orcus The Ultimate]

NDM-1 very bad highresistent to Antibiotics Bacteria that probably came from Pharmaceuticals mofos !

after the virus pandemia that didn't killed more than 18000 peoples, they are trying with a bacteria !

 

[neonnightlite]

I see a distinct lack of T-virus in your poll.

This displeases me.

Exactly. Where is the T-Virus from Resident Evil? It kills everything and everyone in most depictions for a reason.

Except Wesker. He seems just fine from it for some reason. In fact it seems beneficial for him, he's super-human!

Ahem *puts on fanboy cap*

Spoiler

He took a dose of some sort of bacteria developed by Dr birkin in order to make it so, shortly before allowing the tyrant to kill him. Nonsensical, true, but resident evil never exelled in making sense

Trojan virus

Hmmmmmmmmmm I would say my virus in Pandemic or what ever that online game is. I got every last place. HAHAH!

That game is IMPOSSIBLE!!!
There's no way anybody could've beat it!

Even madagascar? Seriously? They close the borders and start burning all their clothes if someone coughs three countries away!

Silver wolf: Interesting, but don't give valve any ideas about new special infected they can use to justify L4D3.

It was japan that got me every time! Pff handing out bottled water.

 

[SimuLord]

My vote is for the F.E.V. It is special, because unlike a vampire (kind of bad ass, in some ways), a mindless zombie, or dead, the F.E.V. turns you into a giant, androgynous savage with some remnant of former sapience. I think that of the other options, the F.E.V. would be the most degrading to you and most horrifying to the people who knew you, that is unless you were already a dim-witted savage. In that case it wouldn't be so different.

My money's on FEV as well---that stuff's some seriously nasty juju...and to hear Fawkes tell it, the struggle to maintain sanity as the changes occur is the worst manner of torture upon one's mind.

 

[Judgement101]

The virus from Shaun of the Dead

 

[OneOfTheMichael's]

what about the parasitic infections like the flood/halo.

 

[instantbenz]

You've quite a list yet it is lacking. Never played an RE game NOR have you seen any of the movies. I actually congratulate you having ignored all of it.

I'm not dissing op, I'm just saying that you've quite a bit of zombie knowledge as per the poll question. Resident Evil being such a dominant zombie gaming figure for so many years makes it strange to me that it's not known by the poll creator.