Forum:Ghouls who went ghoul before the Great War?

If one goes with the apparently current view that FEV isn't needed for radiation in Fallout to turn people into ghouls, I wonder whether there were any ghouls around before the Great War. Might some of the survivors of Hiroshima or Nagasaki have become ghouls? Marie Curie? Survivors of the Small War of 2054? Survivors of Chernobyl-style nuclear meltdowns? Moreover, I wonder if pre-War science studied the ghoul phenomenon (or "Radiation-Induced Peripheral Tissue Necrosis" or whatever they would call it). If there were ghouls long enough that they figured out that ghouls have halted, or at least radically delayed, senescence, that would be a discovery of HUGE medical importance. Idhan 19:53, June 14, 2011 (UTC)

I just asked a question based from this to J.E. Sawyer on Formspring. Saxony4 19:57, June 14, 2011 (UTC) I do remember talking to my teacher and she mentioned a leopard disease (or something like that) she said it made ur skin flake, or something, anyway when she said that it made me think; could that be what is really causing a ghoul, or is it actually the radiation?User:Denis517 06:07, june 20, 2011 (UTC)
 * Denis, could you be referring to Leprosy, a.k.a. Hansen's Disease? While that can be disfiguring, it 1) doesn't really cause anything like the appearance of a ghoul, and 2) doesn't confer any of the other properties of ghouls either, such as extreme longevity, radiation resistance, frequent mental degeneration into a feral state, etc. Idhan 01:26, June 20, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah that was it, well maybe Leprosy is just part of it, or maybe I'm completely wrong and the real cause is, radiation, FEV etc. User:Denis517 06:07, june 20, 2011 (UTC) Desmond Lockheart, from point lookout, was created intetionally so he would live forever. he did it while calvert chose to put his brain in a jar. so it was known, by some at least20:16, June 23, 2011 (UTC)

yes, it couldnt have been widespresd knowlege. due to the fact that most pre-war ghouls didnt know what was happening to them when they changed.