Diseases

[DanCav]

I keep forgetting, and I understand that it's already a pain, well, for me at least, those outbreaks.
But it does irk me a bit, being in the field, that Malaria is not featured. It was endemic in Italy and North Africa at those times, and before the little ice age it reached even England's marshes.
On topic, if you conquer central africa, you would probably contact yellow fever.
But the thing the annoys me the most is that we have shingles but we don't have Varicella. It killed. A lot. Call it Chickenpox. We have enough poxes (new word?) but please add it. I'd go with epilepsy as well, we have got gout, so couldn't hurt. Well it could hurt the characters...
Cheers,
Dan

 

[Lewa263]

As long as the frequency of outbreaks doesn't increase, I'm all for including a wider variety of diseases. I've never seen shingles in the game, though. What do you mean by that?

 

[DanCav]

My mistake -again- Shingles or Herpes Zoster or Varicella Zoster is caused by the the Homonymous Virus (VZV) and it's and unforgivable mistake on my part, while the lover's pox which is present i game is caused by the type I Herpes Simplex Virus (rarely type II). While they are of the same family and closely related, they are NOT the same. I meant to say we have lover's pox but not Herpes related events such as encephalitis. And that said we should have shingles and Zoster Virus -chickenpox-
Thank you for your correction
Cheers, Dan