Fish Egg Flu
An illness brought on by unknown means, capable of spreading by contact with the fluid inside the buboes created on the neck, or by touching a surface which has come into contact with them.
Symptoms
Large clumps where the neck meets the jaw. The buboes are shaped like groupings of black or red fish eggs, depending on the skin color of the individual.
Treatment
Time will heal the growths, but they can be helped with tonics of ground coral and a variety of urchin spines. draining also works, but is rarely performed for the method's increase of transmission. Only well-trained priests or those looking to become one will perform the operation.
Prognosis
Death will usually occur in 60% of people if the buboes are not drained, and in 85% if the buboes grow to the point of popping. After draining, fatality rates shrink to below 10%
Affected Groups
Sailors are the most heavily affected. Having the scars after the illness tends to mark one as low status.
Epidemiology
The condition tends to start at ports and crowded ships. If a ship is at sea long enough and the illness passes to the full crew, they may not spread it once returning to the mainland.
History
The first recorded case occurred in the quiet war of theology between the Logratte-Helgaard alliance and the Whitefinger Haseti. It grew throughout most of the Haseti and killed a large portion of them.
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