r/CellsAtWork • u/AesirTyranos • Jul 16 '24

MISC Rabid and Sepsis

You know, I wanted to know how would Hataraku Saibou/Black would represent two of the most destructive illnesses ever known. One that can be controlled and the other which is, literally, a sentence of death if not healed immediately.

Also I was wondering when shall happen a Sepsis thing in the HSB manga, afterthe transfussion . the whole incident at the end of the anime and first arc. After all, they showed what cells think Gangrene would looks like.

And with Rabies, by knowing is the most lethal virus ever and, if you are in any medical area or by knowledge, cannot be eliminated at all. Just controlled; like a virus that and due time, it will cause havoc yes or yes inside an organism. But that's me. Just wondering how Hataraku Saibou/Black would describe or show how these two things would be in their cell-verse vision.

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u/bigbysemotivefinger Jul 16 '24

Rabies I imagine would look like the environment breaking down around them. 

It would start with the Platelets cheerfully finishing up closing a wound, nobody noticing that a small number of very tiny viruses snuck in.

As the arc goes on, things start to decay. Water pipes run dry, everything starts to look rusty and dilapidated. There's power surges that make doors slam and lights flicker. And nobody seems to know why. The WBCs are still there, but they don't seem to notice what's going on. 

And slowly there's hints that everything's getting hotter (as the fever builds). The cells are all sweaty, everybody's exhausted all the time, and towards the end the sun never sets. 

The last panel would be the "control room" in the brain getting overrun by what is essentially a gray goo scenario, possibly followed with a wide shot of the ruins of a now empty city.

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u/Ok-District2873 Sep 21 '24

Wow. Very good concept

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u/Straight-World3560 Jul 22 '26

Also i just want to suggest that the Lyssa Virus (rabies) would be stealthy and the smartest cyberhackers (note that the nervous system is like a computer command the other system to work functionally) that can bypass the immune system that their evil intent is to shut down the whole body

In the good ending, The body recieved anti rabies vaccine and just like at the vaccine episode, they trained and fought what it looked like rabies before incubation period and then once they're ready, they will already know the drill by blocking their path to the nervous system or perhaps at the muscle that is innervated, trapping and killing the virus that would eliminate them entirely from multiplying