Just spit ballling into wild speculation, we need to setsome ground rules about what it is that is actually causing the infection.
Case study: STDs and Cancer.
Modern medicine produces strong antibiotics and deterrents for most STDs, to the point that AIDS or cancer patients, who are already on the right medicine, run a higher risk of their body failing from unrelated but concurrent infections that ”break the neck” of the immunity of a person, as the added strain is such that the body could not stand,leading to failure.
In this game, it is very much mandatory that humans use medicine,
it is the highest currency, to the point MC gets to fight to the death with a guy who wants to kill MC because, in his mind, only the medicine keeps his wife alive and there must be no witnesses to it.
Just watched The Pit and in one episode, it is presented to a patient that there are dead parasite eggs that have become cysts in his brain - to the point of the patient summarizing that he will have to live the rest of his life with a graveyard of parasites all around his brain.
This means that naturally occurring infections are parasitic in nature and the body does have the immune capacity to form cysts around the parasites, neutralizing them and the human being will live this way the rest of his life, as removing them from all over his brain is practically impossible without killing him in the process.
MC and the woman
Victot alludes to being his wife in this game live by staving off the world ending infection, with the guy who keeps MC safe and alive and MC returns the favor when he fights Victor for both their lives.
Coming off of the fight
to the death, both MC and his savior come back very much alive and seemingly well to their peers.
Naturally, human biology is intense and a huge mystery, but so far, using the medicine in this game, it is feasible to survive getting bitten or scratched or shoved or beaten by the infected.
The game even uses rabies for comparison, as it states that
some infected have a host of bacteria in their mouths that might kill the human getting bitten before the infection that turns humans into zombies will - which is exactly like Rabies, in a sense that there might be a strain strong enough to resist your body's defenses and the medicine and kill you, or, you can beat it.
You never know, which is the kind of suspense and tension that is always looming in post-apocalyptic games.
if a human is bitten b4 they turn if the impregnate a women what becomes of the woman and child? do they turn? does the child become an o natural version of the guy from that tvshow where he got bitten 8 times? when you think about it the zombie virus is basically a extreme std
