Healing Factor/Immunity to Disease

[Prodigy]

The initial description of Healing Factor in HU2, states ""provides incredible recuperative abilities and immunity to disease and toxins." While the subsuquent points have toxins resistants and such, it says nothing of disease immunity.

I guess my question is; does Healing Factor provide immunity to disease?

[Nightmask]

Yes it gives immunity to disease.

[Glistam]

It could be just referring to the increase in P.E. that it provides, since your P.E. bonus afects your save vs. disease. There's a minor power in Powers Unlimited 1 called "Immune to Disease" that makes a person completely immune. I believe the "Immortality" super power from tbe main book also specifically confers immunity to diseases, too.

[SpiritInterface]

Yes it gives immunity to disease.

agreed, it states it explicitly in the first sentence.

[Nightmask]

It could be just referring to the increase in P.E. that it provides, since your P.E. bonus afects your save vs. disease. There's a minor power in Powers Unlimited 1 called "Immune to Disease" that makes a person completely immune. I believe the "Immortality" super power from tbe main book also specifically confers immunity to diseases, too.

There's also a note that having a PE over 30 renders you 'effectively' immune to disease (something not too hard to do with a few of the PE boosting super-powers and physical skills and average dice rolls).

[Nightmask]

Yes it gives immunity to disease.

agreed, it states it explicitly in the first sentence.

Plus not like disease ends up a concern all that often, if a hero in the comics has a disease it's more often either some super-villain deliberately infecting them or they were exposed to something super-exotic like a bio-weapon. Common cold and the flu aren't that common (although Spider-man probably had the largest number of mundane 'Oh God I feel so sick I really don't want to go fight today's Super-villain' moments of any super-hero, around a dozen I think) even for super-heroes that aren't actually super and are just highly trained humans.

[Tor]

Yes it gives immunity to disease.

agreed, it states it explicitly in the first sentence.

The first sentence makes a similar expression about toxins and then goes on to reveal that it is not UTTER immunity but merely resistance.

Kind of like how Impervious to Energy makes you immune to MOST energy, but some kinds of energy (like Invader or Newtown guns) will bypass that.

[Ranger]

It gives immunity to all normal earth (terrestrial) diseases but geneticaly modified ones specifically for that hero/villian may not be immune to it.