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<blockquote data-quote="Baron Opal II" data-source="post: 9342126" data-attributes="member: 6794067"><p>I just listened to a podcast about the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia. In short, the Haitian Rebellion had started and many refugees as well as expected trade vessels had landed in Philadelphia. It was also an unusually hot summer. The ships brought with them the mosquitoes that carry Yellow Fever with predictable results.</p><p></p><p>Among other methods of trying to contain the disease, there were two main theories as to how this, or any really, disease spread; filth generating a disease causing miasma and contagion from someone already sick. Philadelphia was quite filthy at the time, with rotting animal carcasses and sewage in the streets. And, there were newly arrived foreigners that were sick with the Fever. Both were reasonable conclusions from available data and experience. However, it wasn't for another hundred years that biting insects would be discovered as a disease vector.</p><p></p><p>In this context, I could certainly see druids keying in that otherwise ignorable creatures, mosquitoes, could be a disease vector similarly to how some mammals can transmit rabies. While the learned magicians may discover benefits of sanitation and clerics drive out miasma generating disease spirits, it would be the druids that reveal the contagious bite of some miniscule creature, and the means to remove or control said pests.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Baron Opal II, post: 9342126, member: 6794067"] I just listened to a podcast about the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1793 in Philadelphia. In short, the Haitian Rebellion had started and many refugees as well as expected trade vessels had landed in Philadelphia. It was also an unusually hot summer. The ships brought with them the mosquitoes that carry Yellow Fever with predictable results. Among other methods of trying to contain the disease, there were two main theories as to how this, or any really, disease spread; filth generating a disease causing miasma and contagion from someone already sick. Philadelphia was quite filthy at the time, with rotting animal carcasses and sewage in the streets. And, there were newly arrived foreigners that were sick with the Fever. Both were reasonable conclusions from available data and experience. However, it wasn't for another hundred years that biting insects would be discovered as a disease vector. In this context, I could certainly see druids keying in that otherwise ignorable creatures, mosquitoes, could be a disease vector similarly to how some mammals can transmit rabies. While the learned magicians may discover benefits of sanitation and clerics drive out miasma generating disease spirits, it would be the druids that reveal the contagious bite of some miniscule creature, and the means to remove or control said pests. [/QUOTE]
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