Epidemic Guidebook

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EPIDEMIC GUIDEBOOK

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Orthomyxo Virus A

A viral disease initially transmitted by lesser native rats found the Blue Plain. This illness is characterized by chills, fever, sore throat, muscle pain, headache, coughing, and fatigue. Symptoms may last for a two week duration unless otherwise treated.

Known treatments include the Sambucus Berry, the blue-black berries often clustered on low growing shrubbery with white or cream colored flowers. Two treatments are necessary to prove effective.

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Orthomyxo Virus A

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Corona Disease

This disease is characterized by fever, muscle pain, lethargy, coughing, sore throat, and shortness of breath. Corona Disease is transmitted via viruses. It is believed to have originated from the Orchard's Annab Tree.

Known treatments include the rare Coptis Teeta, a nine petaled flowering plant that is usually green or yellow. It is low growing and leafy, often blending in with clover or buttercups.

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Lyre-Thorax Disease

This fever is carried by mosquitoes and is particularly prevalent near water. Characteristics include fever, nausea, chills, general pain, loss of appetite, and bleeding from the mouth, eyes, and gastrointestinal tract. Often times this is accompanied by liver damage and jaundice.

Treatment is disputed, but a known aid is the dried Aleva, a distinctively aromatic red pepper. They are rare due to the fact they mature slowly and are vulnerable to temperate weather.

Parasitic Trypanosoma

This form of trypanosoma is transmitted by parasite and has a minimal incubation period. Common symptoms are fever, weight loss, mucus filled ulcers, fatigue, anemia, and severe swelling of the liver and spleen. If left untreated, this disease will result in irreparable damage to the organs.

Treatment is applied to ulcers and not ingested. Known medicines include the application of the metalloid Shuddha Nilanjan, a lustrous, silvery material.

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EBOV Hemorrhagic Virus

This viral disease is terminal if unattended, and spreads easily. It causes a progression of symptoms, initially beginning with general discomfort, fever, chills, pain in muscles, joints, chest, and abdomen, sore and inflamed throat, cough, shortness of breath, hiccups, and headaches. This furthers into diarrhea, vomiting, agitation, confusion, fatigue, depression, eye inflammation. and rash. The most severe stages of this virus are characterized by the accumulation of fluid beneath skin, skin discoloration due to internal bleeding, seizures, and coma.

Treatments are blood thinning agents that will treat the disease until the immune system can fight it. The juice extracted from the root of Red Sage is a known treatment. This plant grows at high elevations and sprouts stems ranging up to two feet in height.

von Prowazek Fever

A louse-borne disease characterized by sustained high fever, cough, rash, severe muscle pain, chills, sensitivity to light and falling blood pressure. It culminates in stupor and delirium.

Recommended treatments include the consumption of Sanborn Soil, a wet topsoil containing bacteria that will aid the fever by serving as protein-synthesis inhibitors.

The above are fictional illnesses and treatments based upon real-life, human epidemics.