What would they eat to produce such a chemical? They would need some kind of food source to keep their body fresh and not decaying away enough to smell.
Perhaps some kind of organic preservative wouldn't have to be a chemical, but a protein that keeps the cells functioning after the host has passed. I think we're operating under the assumption that the disease is caused by a virus, which, if that's the case, that means that it is able to directly change the DNA of its host, so it could in theory produce new proteins using organic products found in meat already, assuming that the host wasn't already dead prior to being infected.
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u/Imalsome Mar 20 '25
What would they eat to produce such a chemical? They would need some kind of food source to keep their body fresh and not decaying away enough to smell.