Spore pustules

Today I was with Brill, the good-natured guy who had already visited me in my herb room this week. Five days ago he complained of frequent nosebleeds, for which I gave him a tea made from shepherd's purse and bloodroot. This should stop the bleeding. But now one of his sons stood in front of me: "Father and mother as well as my sisters all have a high fever." The child begged me to come with him to their house and do something about it. As I quickly put some of my fever potions into a small bag, a few spurts of blood dripped from his nose. “Has your nose been bleeding for a long time?” I wanted to know. "Hmm," he nodded with pressed lips. That wasn't a good sign. Apparently the whole family was affected.
When I arrived at the family's house with the boy, everyone was lying in their beds and feverish. Shiny bluish pustules had formed on the father's and mother's skin on their arms and chest. I wanted to take a closer look at the figures, but every time I touched the father's skin, the mother and one of the sisters moaned, as if I had touched both of them. That was strange. So I decided to examine one of the children. Here either the father or the son flinched.
Since I couldn't make sense of the unusual illness for the time being, I administered them a fever-reducing agent made from crushed willow bark and yarrow and imposed quarantine on the family. Over the next three days I visited the family again and again and provided them with clan food. But now I also had a nosebleed for the first time, while their son was down with a high fever. However, the rest of the family was slowly getting better every day. The fever had subsided and the bluish pustules had formed small crusts. ..."

Overview

Name: Spore pustules
Transmission: Spores of the Glass-funnelling
Cause: very hot, humid weather conditions
Symptoms: nosebleeds, fever, mirror touch synesthesia, pustule formation, spore discharge
Host: Humanoids
Treatment: hemostatic and antipyretic teas
Course: Incubation 2 days, disappearance after about 9 days

Spore pustules are an extremely contagious but usually harmless disease that occurs through contact with the inconspicuous Glass-funnelling. The disease is closely linked to the cultivation of the Magic Mushroom Meadows, which plays an important role for the Meadow goblins. Its first mention can be found in the records of Êlin, the bringer of healing, who went down in Âdocôrian history in the 1st millennium BEC as the first great shaman of the Mushroom Keeper tribe.

Course of the disease

Êlin, the bringer of healing, wrote down numerous observations about the disease over the next few years based on her own experiences with the disease. She discovered that the spores of the glass fungus are vectors. Glass-funnellings grow in very hot, humid weather conditions, which only occur about every five to seven years in the mushroom-rich western meadows. The mushroom is almost transparent and is therefore hardly noticeable. Even with the slightest touch of the fungus, the spores are released and penetrate the host through the nose.
After about two days, the patient's nose bleeds. Two to three days later, the body fights against a high fever and at the same time the patients feel the touch on the skin of family members who are in close proximity. About a day after the first fever attack, a line about two centimeters wide with shiny bluish pustules develops on the arms and chest, which burst after about a day and release new spores. The burst pustules crust over and fall off after a week. In addition, the fever drops and the patients are healthy again about nine to ten days after the first contact.

Glass-funneling and Spore pustules
by Blue Fairy 74

Precautions & Treatment

Even though the illness is quite mild and without any further complications, since Êlin's discoveries the mushroom keepers have been paying attention to the weather conditions, which favor the growth of the Glass-funnelling. There are specially trained mycologists who search the mushroom meadows for the fruiting bodies and try to remove all the mushrooms. To do this, they wear a special protective spell so that the spores cannot penetrate their bodies. The mushroom harvest can begin one day after the cleaning. If a mushroom harvester does become infected with spores, it is always isolated. This prevents further spread, especially among harvest workers, so as not to endanger the mushroom harvest.
To combat the disease, hemostatic and antipyretic teas are administered, which are prepared to a large extent by the shaman with the help of other clan members before the mushroom harvest. Every helper receives a small supply before the harvest begins so that they can act more quickly in an emergency.

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In response to Catoblepon's unofficial condition challenge

Group 1: Secretion of pus, spores or mucus / mirror touch synesthesia / frequent nosebleeds