My job is incredibly boring. So much so that I often space out and end up daydreaming for most of the day. lol ...I sit in a chair and inspect parts for defects if you're curious. If my imagination wasn't going full-tilt 90% of the time I think I would have died of boredom.
SO what that means is I spent all morning thinking about this future-plague event
 (after lunch there was just a dialtone in my head xD).
it occured to me that birds are extremely dirty. They carry all manner of diseases including Chlamydia (so dont kiss your parakeets). And what do we have in the Shroud that is avian, aggressive, and most likely full to the brim with communicable diseases?
The Ixal. Our Typhoid Mary or Patient Zero could have been infected by one of the Ixal, cut, bit, spit up, drank some tainted river water near an Ixal home... The poor wretch could have even gotten bit by one of the vermin that's most likely living on one of the beast-folk. Fleas, lice, mites, chiggers, the eggs of such vermin hatching and infesting the victim. All of these are potential ways of spreading a virulent disease.
The disease itself I thought up a long time ago for my own fantasy setting. We don't have to use it, but it could be a springboard for something else. It's called Stripping Fever, or Whipping Fever, because it leaves bright red welt-like rashes on the body like the sufferer had been whipped repeatedly. It's like an aggressive and potentially fatal form of poison ivy. It's spread by mites and fleas who carry a bacteria that *loves* human skin.
It spreads rapidly because it's insanely itchy, but it takes 1 to 2 days for it to start itching (incubation time). When it does start spreading, it leaves the stripe marks and causes a high fever, delirium, dehydration, and if it get's severe it can cause blindness or deafness. If left unchecked for more than a week it kills the patient.
Disease is spread only by touch, it can be airborne, but without a host it dies really fast, so it's not a concern. If the patient dies of the disease they have to be burned and buried or the bacteria will just turn to spores and set up camp elsewhere.
The bacteria is killed by the use of a salve made from a plant I made up called the Phoenix Lily. It basically cooks it, and probly more to it, but I never thought much about it. After that is taken care of, the fever is just a normal fever unless it's progressed into severe stage, then it needs more intense medical care than just feeding the person food and liquids.
SO what that means is I spent all morning thinking about this future-plague event
 (after lunch there was just a dialtone in my head xD).it occured to me that birds are extremely dirty. They carry all manner of diseases including Chlamydia (so dont kiss your parakeets). And what do we have in the Shroud that is avian, aggressive, and most likely full to the brim with communicable diseases?
The Ixal. Our Typhoid Mary or Patient Zero could have been infected by one of the Ixal, cut, bit, spit up, drank some tainted river water near an Ixal home... The poor wretch could have even gotten bit by one of the vermin that's most likely living on one of the beast-folk. Fleas, lice, mites, chiggers, the eggs of such vermin hatching and infesting the victim. All of these are potential ways of spreading a virulent disease.
The disease itself I thought up a long time ago for my own fantasy setting. We don't have to use it, but it could be a springboard for something else. It's called Stripping Fever, or Whipping Fever, because it leaves bright red welt-like rashes on the body like the sufferer had been whipped repeatedly. It's like an aggressive and potentially fatal form of poison ivy. It's spread by mites and fleas who carry a bacteria that *loves* human skin.
It spreads rapidly because it's insanely itchy, but it takes 1 to 2 days for it to start itching (incubation time). When it does start spreading, it leaves the stripe marks and causes a high fever, delirium, dehydration, and if it get's severe it can cause blindness or deafness. If left unchecked for more than a week it kills the patient.
Disease is spread only by touch, it can be airborne, but without a host it dies really fast, so it's not a concern. If the patient dies of the disease they have to be burned and buried or the bacteria will just turn to spores and set up camp elsewhere.
The bacteria is killed by the use of a salve made from a plant I made up called the Phoenix Lily. It basically cooks it, and probly more to it, but I never thought much about it. After that is taken care of, the fever is just a normal fever unless it's progressed into severe stage, then it needs more intense medical care than just feeding the person food and liquids.
