From:	David Buehrer <dbuehrer@****.ORG>
Subject:	Re: Viral diseases
Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 1997 07:26:22 -0600

Gurth wrote:
|
| David Buehrer said on 7:17/24 Jul 97...
|
| > Thanks, I'll look for a copy of Twilight: 2000 to get started.
|
| If you want to, I could send you a summary. T2K is out of print, and
| buying a whole rulebook just for the disease rules could be a bit
| unnecessary... :)

Please do. And thanks :)

[snip: disease in foreign countries]

| That's always a nasty trick *EGMG* With 2050s medicine I'd give them the
| ability to take precautions though, if they think about doing so. If they
| don't, it would be their own fault -- you don't travel to tropical
| countries nowadays without getting some shots against local diseases, so
| why should you in 2058?

My parents were stationed in Bangkok, Thailand, last year (State
Department, not diplomats but computer geeks :) and my Dad caught
something freaky that crippled him by causing excruciating pain in
the muscles of his upper left leg. He was evaced back to the states,
but by the time he got back the disease had run it's course and there
was no trace of it left, just the damage it left behind (the doctors
still have no idea what he caught). The damage to his leg had the
side effect that it aggravated his back. Only now is he starting to
recover. Anyway, I'm not looking for sympathy or anything, just
passing along what can happen. And I don't even want to think about
the parasites that you can pick up in third world countries <shudder>
(always buy bottled water).

-David
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