I have decided that this will be my
last Zombiology 101 and I think everyone can agree that this is a pretty good
article to close the chapter on. For reasons that we cannot explain Alex
Mathews is immune to the Kharon Virus.
He is not immune to physical damage.
He is not a superhero. We have bandaged and applied every ointment we can think
of to the bite that he sustained. He will no doubt carry the scars with him for
the rest of his life. But unlike all the others who sustained wounds similar to
his, his flesh did not turn black and necrotic.
The only reasonable explanation that
we can discern is that a certain percentage of the population has to have some
sort of natural immunity to the virus. Now, here is the catch. Can you fly? How
do you know you can’t? Maybe it is because you have not fallen far enough for
your flying powers to kick in. But if you cannot fly, well, you are screwed.
Unless Alex carries some sort of
genetic marker that can be identified, it is impossible to tell if you are
immune to the Kharon Virus unless you are exposed to it. Now, none of us are
immunologists but I kind of get the impression that there is no vaccine for
something like this. There is no zinc lozenge that you can take to prevent this
thing from replicating. Once you are bit, that is it.
Maybe I am wrong. Maybe Alex’s
physiology allows him to create anti-bodies that could attack the virus and
destroy it in people that are infected. I am not saying that he is some human
Lazarus Pit. If you die from the virus, you are dead. There ain’t no coming
back from that. But if his anti-bodies can keep the virus from replicating and
killing you through the fever… Then Alex is officially the most important
person on the planet right now. We have to get him to whatever government,
scientists, or medical doctors we have left so they can start forming some sort
of plan.
