Can the Flood infect hunters?

The reason Hunters cannot be infected with the Flood is the Hunters are not one creature. They are a lot of little worms that form into one big killing machine, and so, do not have a central nervous system.
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Can the flood infect grunts?

This suggests that Grunts and Jackals are in fact readily infectable by the Flood, and are later augmented in some way to become Carrier Forms.
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Can the flood infect Spartans?

Yes, they are human afterall, and the Flood can easily break through a Spartans Visor or Armour and infect them.
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Can the flood infect animals?

The Flood is a parasitic virulent life form, known for being a highly virulent and deadly race, which can quickly incapacitate and infect different life forms, but the infected subject must have sufficient body mass to sustain infection, and even animals can be infected.
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Can the flood infect brutes?

Walkthrough. This glitch can be done by getting a Flood Infection Form onto a Brute Chieftain. These two do not normally exist in the same area. The only way to get them together is to kill all your allies outside the third tower in the level, while leaving some Flood Carrier Forms alive.
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Can the Hunters be infected by the Flood?



Why is Johnson immune to the flood?

The Flood attempted to infect Johnson but he was able to shrug off the effects due to the complications of his Boren's Syndrome.
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Why are hunters immune to the flood?

The reason Hunters cannot be infected with the Flood is the Hunters are not one creature. They are a lot of little worms that form into one big killing machine, and so, do not have a central nervous system. Those same worms are also used to form Scarabs!
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Is Chief immune to the flood?

Also the only reason Sergeant Johnson doesn't get infected is because he has Boron's Syndrome/Orion Augmentations which made his Nervous System so screwed up that the Flood couldn't get a match with his Nervous system rendering him immune to getting infected though he does have Flood DNA in him.
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Did Master Chief get infected?

In Halo: The Flood, Master Chief almost becomes infected by an infection form when it penetrates into his chest and almost manages to reach his spine. In The Mona Lisa, a Marine was slashed by a Combat Form and was infected that way.
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Can the flood infect dead bodies?

Infection forms can be dispatched with a single shot from any weapon (heat is most effective), but can easily overwhelm in large numbers. Infection Forms can reanimate disabled Combat Forms and infect deceased bodies.
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Is Halo the flood canon?

Once Dietz had finished his draft, Bungie checked it over to make sure it complied with the plot established in the games and novels, as Bungie considers all Halo novels canon.
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Does Halo infinite get infected?

Halo Infinite Infection Startup Screen Gameplay Revealed

While this is only a short snippet, this is the biggest hint that Infection will be coming to Halo Infinite in a future update. This would be great news for players who have been waiting to see Infinite's take on the classic game mode.
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Who created the flood?

According to Halo lore, the Flood is a product of a war between the Forerunners and the Precursors. Some Precursors, who lost the war, were turned into regenerative dust that created horrific mutations. The remaining Precursors assimilated into this newfound corruption.
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How did Master Chief stop the flood?

When Master Chief learns that activating Halo would instead wipe the galaxy of sentient life to prevent the Flood's spread, he and Cortana detonate the human ship Pillar of Autumn's engines, destroying the ring and preventing the Flood from escaping.
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How did the flood survive Halo?

Basically, the Forerunners couldn't come up with a way to kill the Flood entirely so they settled on killing their food supply to starve the Flood into hibernation until a day where either Forerunner survivors or some future race found a way to definitively destroy the Flood.
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Why did the arbiter never affected by the flood?

Why was the Arbiter not infected through the inhalation of flood spores? It makes sense that J-117 was not infected, as he presumably has an air filtration system.
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Why didn't the Gravemind infect Master Chief?

The Gravemind has no real reason to kill the Chief, Humanity has no weapon that can destroy the Flood that is already so far spread as it is on Installation 05 and Humanity wants to stop the Halo's.
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Can the flood infect machines?

While most commonly associated with AIs, this form of corruption is not limited to machine entities: given the right conditions, the Flood is capable of manipulating organic beings as well due to the Gravemind's immense intelligence as well as its powerful metaphysical abilities.
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Can Flood infect plants Halo?

I know that the Flood can infect pretty much anything including plants etc. They can terraform places into blight-lands.
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Is the flood dead Halo?

The Flood was contained, and unable to reproduce and grow due to lack of hosts, and eventually died out. The only surviving specimens were contained in state of the art, high-security Forerunner research facilities, such as the Halo Installations and the Threshold Gas Mine.
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Are the flood on Zeta Halo?

Zeta Halo was actually the site where numerous experiments by the Forerunners on the Flood took place, and when the ring was lost it was basically conquered by the Flood, with multiple proto-Graveminds on its surface.
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WHO released the Flood in Halo 1?

After losing two Marines, the first squad, together with Captain Keyes and Johnson, continued until they found a locked door. This was probably the same door that the Covenant forces locked in order to contain the Flood outbreak. Upon opening the door, they released the infection.
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