Disease of Saranna

Transmission & Vectors

The "Ormiglia Sarannae", better known as the Sarranic Parasite, spreads the disease.
This parasite grows each day and coming close (2-6 meter) of an infected might result in you becoming ill too. The parasite is extremely infectious and transmits through aerosols, blood contact and sexual interourse.

Causes

• Eating an infected animal (pigs)
• Coming close to someone suffering from the parasite

Symptoms

In the first few days after getting infected you get nausea. By 3 days you get extreme headaches and you become infectious. Ca. 6 days later you get in a coma and your skin starts rotting, you now have less than 1% chance for survival By the end of the day you're death and small parasitic animals start crawling out of your mouth, nose, ears and eyes.

Treatment

In ancient times the only treatment was amputating the infected part of your body.
Luckily you can now just take some antibiotics.

Hosts & Carriers

Bats occasionally carry the disease, but luckily no one ever eats bats, right?
Pigs however sometimes eat dead infected bats and get the disease. Hungry humans in poor areas are often tempted to eat the ill pig, who is unable to run away.
And so humans carry the disease.

Prevention

Not coming close to infected animals and or people.

History

In 478 a massive outbreak of the disease heavily weakened the Papal Empire, at least 5-10% of the urban population died of it.
In 1576 the Kingdom of Merovingia suffered from a great outbreak. 4% of the population (60,000 people) died.
In 1945 the parasites plagued almost the entire south of the continent Asturgazia, during the Great War. At least 238,000 people died, mainly poor mistreated civilians.

Type

Parasitic

Origin

Natural

Cycle

Short-term

Rarity

Extremely Rare

Affected Species

• Human