Goonhub
12-14-2014, 02:26 PM
Frank_Stein Wrote:I don't see why a disease couldn't be tied to mutations. Just have the disease activate them when it's present. Mutadone could help surpress it, while not actually curing it.
At the very least it would give geneticists a good reason to collaborate with pathology. Especially if there were some disease specific mutations that could be studied.
But anyway I still stick to my original point that a patient zero should happen secretly and everyone should figure it out based on science and scanning.
Maybe the medbay scanner could give off a special warning for patient zeroes. "Warning: Dormant Biological Contaminants detected"
Dr. Honkington: "GET PATHOLOGY OPEN WE HAVE A TYPHOID MARY"
It would give doctors good reason to suit up before operating on anyone ever, because you never know which clown has airborne west nile small pox cancer.
Another good source of accidental disease releases would be artifacts. IIRC they can already release bees, inject you with things, etc, having them store various critters and diseases and giving a risk of a outbreak based on scientists not talking to doctors first, would be cool and completely logical. If you think the artifact contains some biological agent, release it in pathology's containment room or the test chamber and not in the hallway.