| Cacique Caribe | 09 Oct 2018 12:59 p.m. PST |
In your games … A) Is it always after some guy gets too close to some infected animal, in other words an accidental interspecies transfer that goes on to mutate?
B) Or was the "infection" specifically designed to affect humans? Dan
PS. This includes bacteria and other "plagues" (real or imagined). |
| Pan Marek | 09 Oct 2018 1:26 p.m. PST |
Rabies is transferred to humans by animal bites. |
| Insomniac | 09 Oct 2018 1:49 p.m. PST |
It could be lying dormant in the soil and gets uncovered by a farm worker… they breath it in and it spreads by air transfer from human to human. There are plenty of naturally occurring viruses that can cause mayhem… Anthrax is one… and depending on what variety, depends on how lethal it is and whether the inoculations will work or not. Accidental contamination of water/food supply is another one… |
Oberlindes Sol LIC  | 09 Oct 2018 3:06 p.m. PST |
The call of the question was In your games … In scenarios involving infectious diseases, figuring out the vector is often the main task of the PCs, so I won't disclose anything here. |
| Stryderg | 09 Oct 2018 6:07 p.m. PST |
I've never considered using virus infected muppets before.
Mostly my plagues are spawned by evil overlords bent on world domination or extinction, as the case may be. |
| Lion in the Stars | 09 Oct 2018 6:56 p.m. PST |
Ebola is apparently initially transmitted to humans by eating bats. |
| Terry37 | 09 Oct 2018 7:26 p.m. PST |
Yep, sure looks like ole Vincent got the E-Kermit virus!!!!! Terry |
| Bowman | 11 Oct 2018 10:56 a.m. PST |
Ebola is apparently initially transmitted to humans by eating bats. People are eating fruit bats? Doubtful You only need to be exposed to the secretions and excretions of infected animals to get Ebola. link |
| Cacique Caribe | 11 Oct 2018 7:28 p.m. PST |
Hmm people do prepare, cook and eat fruit bats in third world countries, along with lots of other "bush meat" (giant rats, monkeys, jungle cats, etc). link One of my earliest memories of National Geographic Magazine photos is of an Mbuti Pygmy boy chewing on a semi-roasted fruit bat in the Congo. Dan
PS. I've seen more than a few bats that haven't been as thoroughly cooked as this one here:
link |
| Bowman | 28 Oct 2018 5:26 p.m. PST |
Dan, I'll give way to your culinary expertise. Lol. I'll still suggest that the Ebola is transferred to humans by handling the dead "Bush meat" long before the actual cooking starts. From then on the human to human transmission is easy. |
| Lion in the Stars | 29 Oct 2018 2:15 a.m. PST |
That's not what the folks who live in Africa are saying, but I won't deny that there is another possible route of infection than eating the things. |
