Resident Evil 2 (1998) G or T????

[Mr Sunshine]

I'm a little bit confused with the virus which got spread through the sewers. If the team leaded by Hunk was to retrieve the G virus from Birkin, how the hell did the T virus spread throughout the city?? I mean the rats should have been infected by the G not the T virus!! Am i missing something?

 

[Jason-Voorhees]

the G-virus was only injected but the T-Virus is what started the outbreak

 

[Mr Sunshine]

You mean that inside the case there was the T virus?

 

[bruno]

The case contained samples of both viruses (you can see green and purple vials in the cutscene in which Birkin dies). I think the G virus infection is only possible by direct contact with blood or through an embryo produced by a G creature.
The T-virus, however, can be spread through he water and contact with body fuids of an infected.
If you see The Darkside Chronicles, in the remade scene, Hunk's team take a single G-virus sample and a case full of T-virus samples.

 

[Mr Sunshine]

Haven't seen the remake cutscences but i get it now! Thanks!

 

[Skritz]

Yup, I re-checked RE2 and Darkside. The case had both virus but only the T-Virus can spread by water supply. Which makes me wonder. Lets say there was a very wounded survivor in the sewers with a big open wound, if G-Virus contaminated water entered this wound and went into the bloodstream, would it contaminate the host?