RSKL-27

RSKL-27 , is one of six known variations of a virus developed by the Baskolian Biological Weapons Team. Four of the six known viruses, including RSKL-27, cause a severe and often fatal hemorrhagic fever in humans and other mammals. RSKL-27 was the cause of the 2019-2020 epidemic in Baskol and Oof which resulted in at least 14,214,521 suspected cases and 12,426,321 confirmed deaths.
The EBOV genome is a single-stranded RNA approximately 19,000 nucleotides long. It encodes seven structural proteins: nucleoprotein (NP), polymerase cofactor (VP35), (VP40), GP, transcription activator (VP30), VP24, and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (L).[10]
Because of its high fatality rate (around 87.4%),[11][12] RSKL-27 is also listed as a select agent, World Health Organization Risk Group 4 Pathogen (requiring Biosafety Level 4-equivalent containment), a Rasonian National Institutes of Health/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Category A Priority Pathogen, Rasonian Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Category A Bioterrorism Agent, and a Biological Agent for Export Control by The Last Bastion.
== Symptoms ==
RSKL-27 is extremely deadly as it was specially designed for biological warfare. It can infect the host if he or she inhales air containing the pathogen, eating food laced with it, entering through wounds or open areas on the body or being deliberately injected with it.
The symptoms begin to show almost immediately, around 1-2 hours after being infected. At first, a person may start feeling feverish, coughing, runny noses - similar to the flu. At 6-7 hours after being infected the host will begin to start vomiting, experience muscle spasms and eventually brain damage to certain areas.
At about the 10-hour mark, the host loses all control of bodily actions and goes insane, unable to do anything about it. This serves as the primary way the virus will spread itself. If the virus reaches this point, then the person only has a 0.3% survival chance and even if the host survives, he or she will be handicapped for life.
At 16 hours, the host suddenly stops all symptoms, except for coughing and difficulty breathing. The coughing will eventually get harder and harder until the coughs destroy the person's lungs, killing the host.
== 2019-2020 Pandemic ==
On June 29 2019, Bihadj terrorists managed to break into the Baskolian Biological Weapons Development Facility and deliberately infected the kidnapped staff at the facility, who infected the rest of the city. This then spread to the country and eventually across the Zaherian-Tind border into Oof. Both countries collapsed after this, however, this disease never spread anywhere else, although newly-founded small countries may have been infected.
== Deployment ==
RSKL-27 was designed to be sprayed from Rason's MQ-9 Reapers over the enemy area. It could also be sent through letters, or aerosol sprays.
== Cure ==
There is currently no cure for RSKL-27, and the work leading to a cure was destroyed by Bihadj terrorists before the work could be completed.