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 ==Long Term Effects==
-Untreated or unsuccessfully treated, Boren's can be fatal or debilitating. While some direct effects, such as migraines, can be managed with medication, the side effects of chemotherapy to drive tumors into remission can be extremely difficult to deal with. Personal independence and quality/length of life can be curtailed by illness or amnesia. The advantage it gives is immunity to [[Flood Super Cell]].
+Untreated or unsuccessfully treated, Boren's can be fatal or debilitating. While some effects, such as migraines, can be managed with medication, the tumors involved in the disease usually, or possibly always, become malignant. Because of this, treating Boren's Syndrome invariably means treating cancer, a process that itself can be debilitating.
-The condition has an unexpected, beneficial side effect, total immunity from [[Flood]] infection. [[Boren's Syndrome]] alters the neural synapses of its victims in a way that makes them too unstable for an [[Infection Form]] to manipulate or control. Also [[the Flood]] will not manipulate a person or persons with [[Boren's Syndrome]] because [[the Flood]] only infect healthy [[:Category:Host Species|organisms]], those that do not have damage to tissue, radioactivity and so on. This explains why Sergeant Avery Johnson, could not be infected when he and his squad were ambused by the flood on [[Installation 04]].
+Ironically, some combination of the disease's (apparently) multiple pathologies discourages [[Flood Super Cell]]s. This explains why Sergeant Avery Johnson, could not be infected when he and his squad were ambushed by the flood on [[Installation 04]], leading MC to his moral dilemma.
-An infection form attempting to latch on to a host with Boren's Syndrome would receive a "dead signal". The host's nervous system would be uncontrollable for the infection form to change, rendering the host useless. Hosts that can't be infected are usually killed by the flood and used for future uses.
+Technically, there is no explicit proof of what about Boren's Syndrome discourages flood. It may be that the nervous system of someone with the disease cannot support them. A strong hypothesis is that an infection form attempting to latch on to a host with Boren's Syndrome would recognize the characteristic neurological disturbances as "irreparable damage".
+The Flood usually eliminate what they cannot consume/infect. Johnson must have experienced quite an ordeal, immunity or no.
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