Excerpt: Blood, Sweat & Tears

Excerpt from Steeples' Medical Journal, Vol XII
Article contributed by Captain Weston Garrick, Nundarr Military Forces

DISEASE NAME: Bangha Virus, or Rhanzara Fever
DISEASE CLASS: R5 – Highly Contagious, Highly Dangerous
TRANSMISSION: Contact with wounds, saliva, blood, bodily fluids; not airborne
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: Nundarr; not naturally occurring, artificially produced
SYMPTOMS: Initial symptoms present as heatstroke or fever and may temporarily subside if treated as such and correctly attended too, cooling the subject. Further symptoms include severe overheating to the point that the subject's flesh is painful for others to touch; before or shortly after this overheating the subject bleeds from pores and tear ducts, appearing as if to be sweating blood and crying tears of blood. Tertiary and final symptoms include complete organ failure, in no particular order, though brain functions continue until death; simultaenous with compelte organ failure is the excruciating bubbling and melting of the subject's flesh, followed by spontaneous combustion.