"I wouldn't know; we've actually never tested it. It could. It does reanimate dead tissue, but usually the rest of the host is living so it's hard to say. You can always see for yourself," Birkin said with a smirk. That was, of course, not counting Wesker. But he was a rather special case with a rather special strand of the virus.

He shrugged. "Here, we're looking to 'touch off a pandemic'. Back when I worked for Umbrella instead of Wesker, though... He and I were the two top researchers of that particular department. That's how we met." He looked wistfully at the Licker for a moment, before turning back to look at Stein. "And the rest, as they say, is history. So what do you want to do with that virus, if that's not it?"