Timeline for what makes a disease deadly?
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| Dec 9, 2019 at 12:58 | comment | added | khaoliang | The spanish flu also comes to mind. ran for about 2 years, killed 25~50 million people... | |
| Dec 9, 2019 at 0:27 | vote | accept | Qoray | ||
| Dec 9, 2019 at 0:06 | comment | added | Tim B II | @JonathanBöcker not really, but we've certainly had some disease related disasters in the past. Some I can think of are the Justinian Plague and on a smaller scale, the Plague of London. | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 23:55 | comment | added | Qoray | I have one (hopefully last) question. My villain will try to spread spores at an international sport event. These will not be deadly, but instead ideally have no symptoms, except that they make the victim infertile. This would be done, so that damage could be inflicted, but without revealing the mushroom immediately before it is too late. Would I have to make everyone infertile, to destroy society, or would rates of say 10-20% be enough (by bringing the rate of avg children under 2). Has there ever been a case in history, in which an entire generation was "missing"? | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 23:53 | comment | added | Tim B II | @JonathanBöcker Anthrax is a good model for payload, but not for infection - it's actually quite hard for one person to infect another with anthrax through casual contact. That said, increasing the methods for spore release by infected people (probably through sneezing) with this disease for the purposes of your story would make for a compelling disease related disaster. Good luck with it. | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 23:45 | comment | added | Qoray | Ok I have decided to go with mushrooms for now. Thank you very much! Would Anthrax make for a good model? I am still inexperienced with this site, but once I figure out how to make this the top comment, I will! You have been extremely helpful, thank you :D I love this community already! | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 23:44 | comment | added | Tim B II | @JonathanBöcker It's possible that the Govt is putting aside some 'Armageddon' antibiotics for just in case but if they are then I don't know much about it. That said, the knowledge of how to produce these drugs would likely be held in the private sector by large pharmaceutical companies rather than some govt research agency as they have to be mass produced to be useful - your disease creator may well have contacts in (or work directly for) such companies and may therefore have access to those drugs and be able to work on diseases that can resist them. | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 23:26 | comment | added | Qoray | Thank you very much :) I didn't even think of mushrooms. So you have given me a lot to consider :D A quick point on the Antibiotics: my english is terrible, sorry about that, so I think there has been some miscommunication. I thought, that the government held back some antibiotics for new plagues etc, not the villain of the story. The question was, wheather the villain would reallistically have the ability to get his hands on these worst case antibiotics to breed in a resistance. | |
| Dec 8, 2019 at 23:18 | history | answered | Tim B II | CC BY-SA 4.0 |