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** 70% of population of Sherman's Planet reporting symptoms prior to cure (SCE Short Story: "Oaths") | ** 70% of population of Sherman's Planet reporting symptoms prior to cure (SCE Short Story: "Oaths") | ||
** Capable of surviving outside a human body for hours (SCE Short Story: "Oaths") | ** Capable of surviving outside a human body for hours (SCE Short Story: "Oaths") | ||
** Adheres to pollen and dust (SCE Short Story: "Oaths") | ** Adheres to pollen and dust in order to spread via air (SCE Short Story: "Oaths") | ||
** Capable of infecting anything with a nucleic acid-based genetic structure (SCE Short Story: "Oaths") | |||
* Incorporates itself into DNA of quickly-reproducing cells such as trachea or stomach lining, reproducing from there (SCE Short Story: "Oaths") | * Incorporates itself into DNA of quickly-reproducing cells such as trachea or stomach lining, reproducing from there (SCE Short Story: "Oaths") | ||
* Causes extensive tissue necrosis, resulting in | * Causes extensive tissue necrosis, resulting in systemic organ failure (SCE Short Story: "Oaths") | ||
** Targets all bodily systems (SCE Short Story: "Oaths") | ** Targets all bodily systems (SCE Short Story: "Oaths") | ||
* Incubation period of approximately three weeks (SCE Short Story: "Oaths") | * Incubation period of approximately three weeks (SCE Short Story: "Oaths") | ||
Latest revision as of 05:04, 5 May 2019
- Viral hemorrhagic fever native to Sherman's Planet (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- Went dormant c.600 BCE (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- Unearthed July 2376 during excavation (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- Intensely contagious (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- 70% of population of Sherman's Planet reporting symptoms prior to cure (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- Capable of surviving outside a human body for hours (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- Adheres to pollen and dust in order to spread via air (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- Capable of infecting anything with a nucleic acid-based genetic structure (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- Incorporates itself into DNA of quickly-reproducing cells such as trachea or stomach lining, reproducing from there (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- Causes extensive tissue necrosis, resulting in systemic organ failure (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- Targets all bodily systems (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- Incubation period of approximately three weeks (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- Presents as simple pulmonary infection during incubation (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- Death results from either organ failure or hemorrhaging of the lungs (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- Inevitably terminal (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- First fatality recorded July 31, 2376 (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- Death toll of 113 by August 1 (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- Cured August 3 through intensive genetic therapy to rewrite native immune system (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- Final death toll approximately 17,000, 0.5% of total planetary population (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
- Given as 72,134 per text, but that's closer to 2% of the given population of 3.5 million; no clue where that number came from
- Final death toll approximately 17,000, 0.5% of total planetary population (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")