Lupine Measles

Lupine Measles is a fairly common disease that has recently come under control. While it was always treatable by clerical magics, the removal of the disease would also remove any protection from re-acquiring it. This made epidemics fairly hard to control without significant religious intervention.

Transmission & Vectors

The virus is spread by droplet, or fluid exchange. It tends to propagate more quickly in the summer and can hang in the air for a lengthy time frame while temperature and humidity is high. Symptoms occur typically about ten days after infection, while a patient is contagious from about seven days after infection.

Symptoms

• Rectal Pain
• Shoulder Pain
• Hallucinations (usually including darkness and enclosed spaces)
• Eye Twitching (sometimes re-occurring for years after the initial infection)
• Vomiting (uncommon)
• Fever (uncommon)

The hallucinations are a large part of the name of this disease and the most reliable distinguishing feature. Almost exclusively the hallucinations include the sense of a dark and forbidding space that hedges in the way. Often it is of a primeval forest with a sense of impending attack, hence the title relating to the forest wolves.
In some percentage of people the hallucinations do not cause immobility, and the infected may lash out in fear.

Treatment

Common treatments include restorative spells by clergy, or quarantine and supportive tonics. Recently a development using a fermented mix of lizard saliva, green mushrooms, and herbs has been used to stop the hallucinations. This way you can treat the symptoms without removing the subsequent immunity. It has allowed for this to be more like a seasonal flu instead of a more deadly disease.

Affected Groups

Standard humanoids are most affected. Avian humanoids may get infected and be carriers they do not exhibit the same severity of symptoms. Reptilian and aquatic humanoids appear to be entirely immune. This has led to a proposal that a special group of draconic humanoid clerics being trained to specifically help in outbreaks, however they tend to be lumped in with The Touched and are socially ostracized.

Type

Viral

Origin

Natural

Rarity

Uncommon