Blind Rot

Blind Rot is a horrible disease of the eyes that causes many people to go blind each year. The most common treatment, often makes the situation worse for the victim, and leaves them scared and in constant pain and suffering, as well as being easily identified as carrier that can spread the illness to others.

Transmission & Vectors

Blind Rot is transmitted through contact with an infectious carrier. Carriers can include most mammalian species, although it appears to be most prevalent in rodents. It is thought that the most common way to catch it is to have mice or rats in your sleeping spaces.

Symptoms

Blind rot starts with eyes that are watery and itchy, but within a day the eye lids be gin to turn red and scabby, and then the the scabs turn black and continue to grow until the sight is lost because of the abundance of the scabs.

Treatment

The most common form of treatment involves cutting away the scabs as carefully as possible, but eventually some of the eyelid is also cut away leading to the patient eventually not having any eyelids.  The cutting away of the scabs will continue for the rest of the persons life, or until they give up on that treatment and just go blind. Several clerics and members of the Holy Order of the Bringers and Protectors of the Light Resplendent have been able to cure people of this disease, and so their help is often sought out.

Prevention

Many people believe that the best way to prevent this disease is to wash your face as soon as you wake up every morning, but that has not been proven to be 100 percent effective. Also making sure your sleeping are is not accessible to rodents has proven to decrease the chances of catching this disease. Others swear by wearing night masks, or blindfolds as they sleep prevents the fungus from getting into your eyes to begin with.

Type

Fungal

Origin

Natural

Cycle

Chronic, Acquired

Rarity

Rare