Witchwood Plague

A rare disease found almost exclusively in areas heavily populated by Balverines. It has a 3-7 day incubation period and it's victims die within three months. The disease is always fatal.
==Signs and Symptoms==
Victims start showing symptoms within the first month. These symptoms include headache, backache, pallor, sore throat, fatigue and loss of appetite. By the second month the symptoms worsen; victims exhibit weight loss, inappropriate and sporadic laughter. They develop a painful, itchy reddish-purple rash starting at the back of the neck and spreading allover the victim's body. Their eyes redden and they develop an extreme sensitivity to light. By the final stage of the disease the victims have begun coughing up blood. They are plagued by intense thirst but refuse to drink due to an aversion to water. Finally the victims will continuously vomit up blood, become delirious and have seizures before they finally die.
==Causes==
Balverines are known to be the source of the virus but they are only carriers. The disease is spread to other animals and very rarely humans by infected fleas. Once a human is infected the disease becomes much more contagious spreading to others by coughing, sneezing, kissing and open wounds.
==History==
Originating among the Balverines of Witchwood this disease was discovered by a traveling physician from Oakvale. After studying several cases in Witchwood he returned to Oakvale to discover it had spread to the Balverines in Darkwood. A man living in Barrow Fields had contracted the illness while hunting in Darkwood Weir. He was quarantined and soon died. The physician spent the rest of his life researching a cure. The last known case was a young man in Oakvale who somehow contracted the disease while on a trip to Bowerstone. It is unknown whether he died of the disease or not since the entire town was destroyed shortly after his return to Oakvale.