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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9310472" data-attributes="member: 7035894">I misremembered the scene so I looked it up. It was even more ludicrous than I had recalled. In the series, one woman catches radiation poisoning from her husband after seeing him the hospital (i.e. after he had been washed and his clothing disposed of), and this in turn kills their unborn child. Radiation poisoning is not contagious. You can hug someone who is dying from it an not worry about getting sick yourself. Just like you can hug your sunburnt kid and not worry about your own skin.I mean, as long as they aren't still covered in radioactive fallout. Because, yeah, don't get that stuff on you.I enjoyed the series quite a lot, but all of the radiation poisoning stuff made me face-palm. The way it showed people basically melting over a period of days after radiation exposure, slowly turning into horror film extras, was equally ridiculous.</blockquote>