Blood contagion - Mab's rule against spilling blood (cd spoilers)

[Second Aristh]

I was trying to make a joke, as any attempt to contradict this statement would have increased your total to 1001.

Not really funny I admit.

Ah okay

[TheCuriousFan]

Why are we assuming that Sharkface and his coat are all all two different things?

Because we want to see the cloak again?

[Elegast]

So….is it possible that Mab’s reaction was a built-in autoimmune response to the possibility of a contagion? Is it possible that Nemesis is a blood born contagion?

I wonder if the blood given to DM was also a test to check if Harry is infected.

[Cenphx]

Someone said in another thread that there is a WoJ that the blood was more important in that spell/invocation than the soulfire. Seems to support the blood was necessary-maybe for the infection screening

[mithrandirthewhite]

Blood does not lie.  So it makes sense that any infection would reveal itself their.  As for why Mab would have to check Harry in SK could be to ensure the mark of HWWB didn't have a handle on him.

[tze]

If the contagion passes through the blood, that would have rendered the blood-drinking Red Court particularly susceptible. We know the Reds called up Outsiders to attack the Council, and who knows how far the infection had spread by that point (assuming Arianna and Bianca were in fact infected). Nicodemus---who, based on his conversations with Harry in Small Favor, definitely seems clued in about the contagion---mentioned to Harry that he wanted the Red Court to be destroyed, but never specified why; if he knew Nemesis was transferred via blood, he would have known the Red Court (despite its Fallen-friendly MO of causing harm) was too big a danger to be allowed to survive.