Chapter 41-1 Eye of the Storm

[Red Shirt]

From what Tanya gathers while doing research on the girl brought back is that the K18 levels are a byproduct of whatever causes the change, and once the change is complete the K18 returns to normal. But whatever actually causes the change she has not been able to find. Also whatever causes the change also leads to a complete restructure of some organs; if I remember right she mentions enlarged lungs and heart and additional arteries and aorta and hardened skin, so despite if it starts in the blood, eventually it leads to a change in the actual tissue and muscle of the body, so I wouldn't be able to see how a blood transfusion would stop it.

- I am not 100% sold on it yet, but I think there could be something to the blood type theory as to who gets turned and who gets eaten and who are the slow turners etc. Maybe some people are tastier than others and it has to do with their blood type. Maybe some people are more susceptible to turning based on blood type. Not sure yet.

Also, i think the slow turning/(hopefully)immunity has to do with blood type, not who gets eaten/infected. Not sure how a zombie would gather information on a persons blood type, since i don't think people with different blood types give off different smells (although i could be wrong).

I thought I might have a deeper look into this... I am of the train of thought that transfusions from specific people just might confer at least slow turner status, if not actual immunity. Given that transfusions are already used for the treatment of many conditions, such as the lack of certain antibodies, it seemed plausible.
Maybe, just maybe I thought there could be a rare blood factor that may contribute to this. I already know there is more to blood typing than just the letter and +/- as in addition to my ABO type and Rh type, I also know my RhD type. (A subset of Rh)

So, I looked up Human blood group systems for some insight... F*ck, what a can of worms this turned out to be.

Blood typing and Human blood factors are a mire of complex sub types. First, the ABO blood group system yields part of the blood type scheme that everyone is familiar with: A, B, AB and O. Then there is the Rhesus or Rh factor, that is identified with the +/-, the other part we are familiar with. Then there's RhD factor I mentioned above. Then I found out that in ABO, there are the A1, A2, A1B and A2B subtypes, four of the more "common" of the more than 200 minor blood groups. Then, there's the Oh (Bombay) blood type. Lastly, there are thirty more blood group factor identifiers.

I'm not going to bother with the math, but I think that comes out to be something on the order of a few hundred million different combinations of blood type factors.

So... could it be possible that someone may have antibodies in their blood, a blood type factor (known or unknown) that grants immunity? Given the complexity of human blood, sure. I'll buy that for a Dollar.