False Blood Fever

(Legacy Content)

False Blood Fever is an artificial variant of the Blood Fever disease, created accidentally as a byproduct of research conducted by Dr. Margrave during her efforts into treating Vampirism. Her insistence on using the Hemalilia plant, commonly referred to as "Bloody Nettle" due to its relation with blood - or rather its sangination of blood - inevitably lead her to testing her experiments on living creatures, eventually culminating in a far deadlier version of the plant's disease when introduced to humanoid subjects. Thankfully though, this disease has been thus far contained within her laboratory on the top floors of Heartspire's clocktower.

Transmission & Vectors

Currently, False Blood Fever is only capable of being transmitted through experimental dosages created by Dr. Margrave, and directly applied to subjects either through tablets or injection. It is caused as a result of genetically manipulated samples of the Blood Fever virus.

Note: Currently, while the only official way to contract this disease is through these dosages, any contact with infected material will spread the disease, similarly to natural Blood Fever.

Symptoms

The... explosions, are certainly not something I had anticipated, though logically they are sound...

— Journal of Dr. Margrave

The symptoms of False Blood Fever are an amplified version of the same symptoms of natural Blood Fever. False Blood Fever first results in extraordinarily rapid increases in internal body heat, resulting in quickly deteriorating bodily functions alongside first through third degree burns all over the point of infection. This process usually takes around thirty minutes to progress to the final stage. What happens afterward depends on the speed of the immune response. If the immune system of the infected person is quick enough to react to the infection, then the individual will die of organ failure due to overheating and no further progression will be evident as the disease will quickly burn itself to death. If the immune response is slow, then the heat created by the rapid viral spread will eventually cause the body to rupture and violently explode, spreading infectious material in all directions. All cases of test subjects exposed to the disease who did not possess an immunity to normal Blood Fever or disease entirely, or do not possess a sufficiently hardy immune response to counter the virus have resulted in death.
Note: Due to the contained nature of the laboratory, no infectious material has been able to escape the location.

Treatment

Tests conducted by Dr. Margrave herself have concluded that this variant disease cannot be treated through any known means, as the spread of the virus is simply too quick to slow or stop. And due to the clandestine nature of this virus strain, and the contained state of all samples, no outside research is being conducted.

Affected Groups

Similarly to natural Blood Fever, False Blood Fever affects any living creature with blood that requires hemoglobin to function or possesses iron in a significant way.

Epidemiology

If False Blood Fever was to ever escape the confines of the surrounding laboratory, it can theoretically decimate entire population centers provided the populous is densely packed. However, given the care that Dr. Margrave has taken to ensure that this never reaches the outside of her lab, this is unlikely to occur.

Type

Viral

Parent

Blood Fever

Origin

Engineered

Cycle

Short-term

Rarity

Unique

Additional Notes

The effects of the Hemalilia plant when applied in this manner can only be described as wholeheartedly gruesome. But, I am convinced that the unique interactions between this virus and hemoglobin could be the key to creating fake blood that can actually sustain Vampires of any breed. No matter the cost, this treatment will ultimately save more lives than my experiments can ever claim. Besides, no one will miss a few bandits or vagabonds.

— Journal of Dr. Margrave