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==Long Term Effects== | ==Long Term Effects== | ||
Untreated or unsuccessfully treated, Boren's can be fatal or debilitating. While some | 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. | ||
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. | |||
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. | |||
==Sources== | ==Sources== |