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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
When someone suffers from Acute Radiation Sickness they go through a "latent" stage where they feel well and healthy, despite potentiay lethal physiological damage. How is this?
gpt
If you get a sufficiently high exposure, it kills pretty much all of the bacterial fauna in your stomach and intestines, as well as your intestinal lining. Your digestive system just stops working. That manifests itself as rapid onset nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. Once you're ah, empty, you feel better. No more barfing all over the place.

Unfortunately those cells aren't coming back anytime soon, and in the meantime much of your bone marrow might be dead, most of your white blood cells are dead, you might have severe organ damage. It's pretty much a matter of time. The train's already left the station, so to speak, and now you're just waiting for it to arrive.