Marburg Z:

This is a possible contagion for the Twilight Biohazard entry in the survey on p. 280 of Twilight 2000 V2.2. The disease is a filovirus that has combined with a prion to form a hideous pandemic. Originally bio-engineered bacteria was posited, but this is based on a disease being researched in at least three labsin Russia, left over from Soviet weapons projects. This virus is initially airborne, but mutates to contactwith fluids, usually bites.

Marburg Z

Transmission: Initially airborne, later contact with infected blood or saliva, typically through bites or wounds. Infection Number 7.

Symptoms: Sudden severe headaches, fever, nausea, vomiting, fatigue, diarrhea, fatigue

Diagnosis: Difficult

Misdiagnosed as: Ebola, Hemorrhagic Fever, Typhoid Fever, Typhus.

Treatment: Relieve pain, fever +1, intravenous fluids +1

Course of the Disease:

Incubation: 2D6 days

Phase I: 1D6 days, patients begin hemorrhaging from eyes and ears at the end of the phase.

Phase II: 1D6 days, prion lesions start in this phase.

Base Recovery Number: 25

Failed Recovery Death Probability: 10

Postrecovery Debility: none, occular bleeding stops in 1D6 days.

Survivors have reduced vision, and , half INT, CHA and EDU reduced to 0. They have melee at Novice skill regardless of previous NPC level before infection. The ocular hemorrhaging has given them a name among the uninfected: The Weepers.