The diseases would only be able to affect them if there was some evolutionary benefit to having that ability.
Human settlers were subject to new diseases because humans from Europe and humans from elsewhere are fairly similar. Since Turians are nothing at all like humans, earthborne diseases likely wouldn't affect Turians at all.
How are our squadmates immune to Earthly diseases?
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Posté 23 juin 2011 - 10:36
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As Shepard states in ME2, diseases can't cross species barriers. Every organism on Earth has evolved on Earth. It likely wouldn't do anything at all to an alien.
This.
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Posté 23 juin 2011 - 10:46
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Sylvius the Mad wrote...
Human settlers were subject to new diseases because humans from Europe and humans from elsewhere are fairly similar. Since Turians are nothing at all like humans, earthborne diseases likely wouldn't affect Turians at all.
That's pretty much it right there. The OP probably got some wires crossed thinking about how smallpox, etc. wiped out the Native Americans or some such, and extrapolated it to the Mass Effect universe. The trouble is, Europeans and Native Americans are just different breeds of the same species. Mass Effect aliens are different species altogether.
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Posté 23 juin 2011 - 10:52
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KingNothing125 wrote...
That's pretty much it right there. The OP probably got some wires crossed thinking about how smallpox, etc. wiped out the Native Americans or some such, and extrapolated it to the Mass Effect universe. The trouble is, Europeans and Native Americans are just different breeds of the same species. Mass Effect aliens are different species altogether.
Well, I'd also say that some diseases are interconnected with poor animal husbandry practices (hygiene issues mostly), so that more than "breeds" IMHO.
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Posté 23 juin 2011 - 11:00
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Except the Quarians. Those suits come off, they get smallpox in a second.
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Posté 23 juin 2011 - 11:07
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The Quarian reliance on environmental suits doesn't really make any sense unless there's some sort of toxin they're trying to avoid.
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Posté 23 juin 2011 - 11:09
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In the books it explains that their immune systems are weak from only breathing the sterile recycled air in their ships for so long.
edit: Likely in the games as well, but I don't recall exactly when.
edit: Likely in the games as well, but I don't recall exactly when.
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Posté 23 juin 2011 - 11:12
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Sylvius the Mad wrote...
The Quarian reliance on environmental suits doesn't really make any sense unless there's some sort of toxin they're trying to avoid.
They'll get allergic reactions to most diseases, and their immune system is so weak, they'll die of infections unless they can keep the nasty bacteria away.
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Posté 23 juin 2011 - 11:15
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quarians are all basically hyper allergic. They can't get diseases but suffer allergic reactions to any foreign material that their bodies do not recognize.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergy
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Posté 23 juin 2011 - 11:17
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Regarding Quarians, I like how Pride Demon explained it here: http://social.biowar...01510/2#7402477
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Posté 23 juin 2011 - 11:20
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Praetor Shepard wrote...
Regarding Quarians, I like how Pride Demon explained it here: http://social.biowar...01510/2#7402477
Thank you for that link... I was about to more or less post the exact same thing in not as many words.
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Posté 23 juin 2011 - 11:28
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That makes sense. That effectively makes everything a toxin they need to avoid.
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Posté 23 juin 2011 - 11:40
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Like Tali said: If small cut in their suits would kill them, they all would be dead by now.
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Posté 23 juin 2011 - 11:53
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The way Tali explained it, if a Quarian was exposed to smallpox, it would get a severe allergic reaction, but it would not actually catch small pox.sirgippy wrote...
Except the Quarians. Those suits come off, they get smallpox in a second.
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Posté 23 juin 2011 - 11:55
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LOL Y U NEED HELMETS AND FULL SUITS? DECONTAMINATION WAT DAT?
Later...
Harbinger:"I am assumin-*cough* direct-*cough*
Shepard:"What's the matter not feeling in control now Harbinger?"
*Harbinger emits angry electric charge*
*Harbinger sputters, then falls down*
Morgan Freeman:"And so it came to be that the invaders with all of their technology had forgotten about the smallest things that thru great loss man had survived..."
Solid Snake:"THE NANOMACHINES?!"
Later...
Harbinger:"I am assumin-*cough* direct-*cough*
Shepard:"What's the matter not feeling in control now Harbinger?"
*Harbinger emits angry electric charge*
*Harbinger sputters, then falls down*
Morgan Freeman:"And so it came to be that the invaders with all of their technology had forgotten about the smallest things that thru great loss man had survived..."
Solid Snake:"THE NANOMACHINES?!"
Modifié par Bluko, 23 juin 2011 - 11:57 .
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Posté 24 juin 2011 - 03:55
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How are you immune to tree diseases? And compared to the asari, you and a tree are practically brothers.
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Posté 24 juin 2011 - 03:57
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Sylvius the Mad wrote...
That makes sense. That effectively makes everything a toxin they need to avoid.
No, it doesn't make sense. It actually directly contradicts, for example, what Tali does in the romance with Shepard (she boots her immune system and takes antibiotics). It's just Bioware failing biology.
The post itself also contains serveral errors.
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Posté 24 juin 2011 - 04:00
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Why are you assuming it's going to be their first time on earth in the first place?stonbw1 wrote...
Many times a new culture meets another for the first time, foreign disease wreaks havoc on the populations. I understand humans have only been around the galactic game for a bit and undoubtedly, many Earth's diseases haven't made it into the Citadel or other space venues. You'll recall in ME1, the scan every time you entered the Normandy, presumably to prevent foreign contaniments. How are Liara, Wrex, Mordin, etc. going to survive first-time encounters with diseases on Earth in which they couldn't have worked up an immunity to yet??? (excluding Tali b/c of her suit). Wouldn't that be just super: Save the galaxy from the Reapers and then Liara dies of a headcold and Mordin kicks the bucket due to a misquoto bite!
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Posté 24 juin 2011 - 04:14
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In Exile wrote...
Sylvius the Mad wrote...
That makes sense. That effectively makes everything a toxin they need to avoid.
No, it doesn't make sense. It actually directly contradicts, for example, what Tali does in the romance with Shepard (she boots her immune system and takes antibiotics). It's just Bioware failing biology.
The post itself also contains serveral errors.
She took them in case she accidentally ingested.
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Posté 24 juin 2011 - 04:44
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Bogsnot1 wrote...
She took them in case she accidentally ingested.
It doesn't work that way. If she's allergic, she'd want to suppress her immune system. And if she's worried about anything that isn't a bacteria, antibiotics are useless.
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Posté 24 juin 2011 - 05:51
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NuclearBuddha wrote...
BSN cannot into biology.
Dig the name.
Anyhow, if folks of different species went about picking up each other's diseases the Citadel would probably be a very very bad place to be. Just a thought. That, and vaccinations. Anyone here caught smallpox last decade?
Of course, drinking another species 'alcohol' is probably a more likely cause of death than disease. Just ask the Krogan.
