In Chimera Arc, why weren't the people infected by the bomb?


In Chimera Arc, why weren't the people that stood in front of the castle
infected

> when Shaiapouf died because of the Rose-Bomb? He lay a long time next to the
> paralyzed people.




It's just an hypothesis, but, based on what is shown in the manga, the
situation of these people was different than

> the ones we know that died by the radioactive poisoning:

About...

> The King and the Royal Guard: Meruem took the direct impact of the Rose
> Bomb; Pouf and Yupi were in the center of the explosion soon after, taking
> the full impact of radiation: [![enter image description
> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MFbFc.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MFbFc.jpg)

About

> Komugi: she stayed in direct physical contact with the King for many and
> many hours, maybe days (for what I remember, it's not precisely stated how
> much time they passed together). She even touched the hands of the King:
> [![enter image description
> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bBDoZ.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/bBDoZ.jpg)

About common people:

> By comparison, common people had not this level of direct contact with the
> poisoned characters (at least they were not touching them), and only some
> were near the corpses of the Royal Guard: [![enter image description
> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/igQFD.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/igQFD.jpg)

However, as @eha1234 said in the comments, it's very possible that some people
died by radiation, but, since a lot of people died for many reasons, maybe
these death were not specified among the total. So, maybe the correct answer
is that these people _were_ , in fact, infected, maybe not as strong as the
characters in question, due to reasons mentioned above.

> And, was stated in Chapter 318, 46,613 people had a deterioration of their
> condition and died after being liberated from Pouf's hypnotic abilities
> [![enter image description
> here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CPXvg.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/CPXvg.jpg)

