I may be incorect about her being immune but since she was bitten and didnt turn and the scanner said she was infected makes the (she actually is immune) theory incorect.
The scanner noticed the fungus inside her. The fungus is inside her, but mutated and is not only harmless to Ellie, it also makes her immune.
Holy dead thread revival, guys.
I hadn't visited this Wiki for, like, two years.
Well, since the forum is revised, I'm gonna add my thoughts ^_^:
The idea she is immune was correct until the end of the main story, as we see her infected arm now looks more like a rash, evidenced by the increased redness and now stretching up her arm.
Instead of being completely immune, her body has merely "slowed down" the process. Plus, the factors we have prove its down to chance rather than factual proof of her resistance. Her infection resistance isn't down to:
It's just chance. It's a shame for the human race.
Counter-Evidence: She was supervised by scientists who were competent enough to find out how the fungus mutated inside her.
Also, it's not an infection, it's a cordyceps-variant fungus. It affects the brain first. You wouldn't see it by looking at her arm.
Implord wrote: Counter-Evidence: She was supervised by scientists who were competent enough to find out how the fungus mutated inside her.
Also, it's not an infection, it's a cordyceps-variant fungus. It affects the brain first. You wouldn't see it by looking at her arm.
Time for me to try and counter the counter ahah:
Indeed, the fungus inside of her mutated, according to the scientists, but that's the whole thing about it being "1 in a billion", it is that mutated fungus in the world (though their might be more). Also the scientists want to reverse engineer a vaccine, I wonder why they didn't do a biopsy?
Regarding the arm, I merely was stating the place at where the fungus infected her, not where it affected. Though, for the change in her arm, that would indicate to me it has now spread to her arm and affected it as well.
1. A biopsy makes sense if the fungus spread through her body. According to the scientists, as far as I understood, the fungus infected her brain and stopped there, for one reason or another. That's also the reason they needed her brain.
2. Every change of nature starts with one among millions.
3. The infection doesn't spread before it toke controll over the brain. Except if Ellie was to become an Infected but keept conciousness. Which would be crawsome.
SHE IS NOT IMMUNE SHE IS INFECTED NOT IMMUNE SHE IS A CARRIER AKA SHE IS INFECTED ITS JUST NOT TURNING HER INTO A ZOMBIE AS A FORM OF SPREADING.
In real life you could say have Ebola but not show any symptoms at all your just a carrier then, you ARE infected but NOT showing symptoms. (Showing symptoms means you do not have any of the symptoms like coughing nausia or anything like that from the infection.)
L4D-L4D2 survivors are infected but not turning due to being lucky in the case of they are carriers they do not turn but they carry the infection.
As seen with Tess, David would have shown first symptoms by the time they offed him.