[BHunter007]

It's something to do with the water, is what the manga seems to be saying.
I think this turn of plot seems to be quite smart and good.

[piririn]

hmm...the water...not bad, but i still think the cause are the berries. firstly: probably they all drank from the water, but rion and yarai are uneffected. secondly, look at this:
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/eden_n...2/c013/11.html
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/eden_n...2/c013/13.html
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/eden_n...02/c014/9.html
it seems both rion and yarai didn't eat from the berries. well, we'll see the solution in the next chapter..

[SavageValyn]

Genuis eureka moment, thanks.

I think your right, I'm betting it was the berries. So it's nailed down as coming from some water source, or from those berries growing about. I think that creature 'drowned' because of the symptoms, a result of being weakened. It probably was attempting to cool itself from the fever symptom or drink from the water. I've seen it in books, being a dino-nerd when I was a kid. I think it's a mammal, herbivore browsing on low vegetation, related to the family of elephant, manatee, rhino, etc. so the evidnce is valid, since it ate from the same food source as what the bunch of 'em gathered for supplies in the cave. Also, Rion was sensitive to a 'bad smell' and avoided the berry. Perhaps it was her instinct of smell, kinda like sight when seeing moldy green gunk growing off stale bread, warning the primal monkey brain of her's it was deadly.....PEPTO BISMAL radar? @w@ ANyway..... Curious to find out more about the pandemic, regardless of it's true origins. xD

Arrrrgh, can't wait for the next chapter. So bored.

PUNPUN FTW! ;D

[himiko280]

Probably the answer would be to puke it out right?

[piririn]

oh my. thanks for agreeing @SavageValyn. and yeah, punpun ftw!!XD

Originally Posted by himiko280

Probably the answer would be to puke it out right?

khm. it's not that easy. it's probably too late to puke it out if it's food poisoning - probably their organism already absorbed the berries. it's similar to eating toadstool - even gastric lavage won't help. they need some kind of antidote.

[flc211]

ok i;m new to this so...hello..i guess...anyways i think that there might be 2 causes to this "epidemic"
1)first i think its because of the rats or squirrels because rodents usually carry infectious diseases (the black plague for e.g.) but this time it migth be an extinct virus....
2)it might also be a parasite because of the rhino/hippo creature : it wasnt acting its normal self it didnt attack the the group ; afterwards it went and drowned itself....i dont think hippos drown...there are parasites that forces their host to kill themselves so that they can get out after reaching some kind of growth...so yea i think the group ingested some parasite eggs while eating the same berries as the hippo...and since it's a extinct parasite it reacts differently to the human body

I dont think its the berries because they've been eating them for days and the flight attendant did say she tested it...then again they are extinct berries..........

[xxevergreedxx]

Originally Posted by flc211

ok i;m new to this so...hello..i guess...anyways i think that there might be 2 causes to this "epidemic"
1)first i think its because of the rats or squirrels because rodents usually carry infectious diseases (the black plague for e.g.) but this time it migth be an extinct virus....
2)it might also be a parasite because of the rhino/hippo creature : it wasnt acting its normal self it didnt attack the the group ; afterwards it went and drowned itself....i dont think hippos drown...there are parasites that forces their host to kill themselves so that they can get out after reaching some kind of growth...so yea i think the group ingested some parasite eggs while eating the same berries as the hippo...and since it's a extinct parasite it reacts differently to the human body

I dont think its the berries because they've been eating them for days and the flight attendant did say she tested it...then again they are extinct berries..........

Heh, I can understand those theories, but the fact is this is a manga, thus a work of fiction. In any fictional story, authors tend to stress important factors that come in later on (with the exception of the manga Naruto). The flight attendant isn't a professional, and she might have just tested them rather simply, maybe even just using basic knowledge of poisons.

The most likely explanation is that the berries carry some sort of virus, meaning a type of antidote must be ingested so to at least fight the virus (kinda like the flu). As piririn noted, Rion and Yarai didn't eat any berries, and they're the only ones left uninfected. Yarai is probably searching for a cure at the current time.

[Spaz0ut]

Here is the cure for the sickness

they have to eat flowers which contain something to reverse the poison

The author couldn't do anything better than that.......
pathetic...

[925MangaFan]

Originally Posted by Spaz0ut

Here is the cure for the sickness

they have to eat flowers which contain something to reverse the poison

The author couldn't do anything better than that.......
pathetic...

Exactly what I thought. But sometimes it's seems just to obvious. Maybe they gotta eat the hippo-thingy.

[Spaz0ut]

Originally Posted by 925MangaFan

Exactly what I thought. But sometimes it's seems just to obvious. Maybe they gotta eat the hippo-thingy.

its not my theory, its what actually happens in the next few chapters