Hmm, should probably mention this contains slight spoilers for anyone who hasn't completed the game.
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Originally Posted by dman8tor
nobody has said that irving injected himself with uruboros. Aside from the final boss and the 3 uruboros bosses, all other enemies are strains of las plagas mixed with other viruses known in the series. The word majini is simply the term the African locals used to describe the las plagas outbreak. Plus, the game seems to place emphasis that uruboros is not injected, but an airborne virus, which is why [SPOILER] Wesker plans to dump the virus into the atmosphere to distribute it..
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I'm pretty sure that the Uruboros is a parasite that mutates it's host. I'd have to check over the in game files but I believe the different reactions it's victims suffer is based on whether or not their bodies are rejecting the process (the villains described it as Uruboros rejecting the person though). Wesker stated that Uruboros rejected Excella. It was the same reaction we saw in an earlier boss fight when the test subject was apparently "not worthy". In Excella's case, her body ended up absorbing the nearby bodies of many dozens of infected test subjects. As far as Irvine goes, he was given something else, whether it was just a dose of the G virus or if it was Uroborus treated
with the G Virus I'm not sure. What is known though, is that Wesker was taking doses of the T virus for years, his body was actually designed to use it, and that it's interaction with Uroboros allowed him to control it.
Uroboros isn't a virus at all, it's a parasite. If Wesker had released it into the air it would probably have drifted around the world in the form of spores that people would inhale.