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'''Boren's Syndrome''' is a [[human]] disease caused by prolonged exposure to high-yield [[plasma]] (and/or high-energy Electromagnetic radiation), such as from a [[Plasma Grenade]]. Symptoms include brain tumors, migraines and amnesia. Without proper treatment, death commonly occurs. Effective treatment requires thirty weeks of intensive chemotherapy. Unconfirmed claims as to the cause of the disease include inhaling the gases released when a [[Type-51 Carbine]] magazine is ejected and being around [[Plasma Grenades]]. | '''Boren's Syndrome''' is a [[human]] disease caused by prolonged exposure to high-yield [[plasma]] (and/or high-energy Electromagnetic radiation), such as from a [[Plasma Grenade]]. Symptoms include brain tumors, migraines and amnesia. Without proper treatment, death commonly occurs. Effective treatment requires thirty weeks of intensive chemotherapy. Unconfirmed claims as to the cause of the disease include inhaling the gases released when a [[Type-51 Carbine]] magazine is ejected and being around [[Plasma Grenades]]. | ||
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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. It also shows great resistance to the [[Flood Super Cell]]. | 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. It also shows great resistance to the [[Flood Super Cell]]. | ||
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. | 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, although the infection forms on installation 04, could not infect him due to this condition. | ||
Any attempt by an Infection form to latch onto the central nervous system of such a host would in effect receive a "dead signal," much as a computer with a damaged Internet connection could not be hacked into, although internally it may be functional. | Any attempt by an Infection form to latch onto the central nervous system of such a host would in effect receive a "dead signal," much as a computer with a damaged Internet connection could not be hacked into, although internally it may be functional. | ||