Re: What is disease

From: Todd Gardiner <todd.gardiner_at_O0QfMapM6GywAzVu5JjoXy3KfaVC2tfycVHFRXU_eJcxLELW55ZPamLlMlFXO4>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:23:33 -0800


Hard to imagine a world in which parasites don't exist, whether they are tapeworms, ringworm (a fungus), or even mistletoe (which is a plant-on-plant parasite). Pathogen just takes that idea down to the cellular or viral level.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 12:16 PM, markmohrfield <markmohrfield_at_r7i8aPGhKNDSH4BYf2-0NHALyI9yNU2uMRTyfmyndcP5T6Clx0yzFk7-ZZ-g9R3Y3ugsjkRo-KrVd8q_DbDw.yahoo.invalid>wrote:

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> --- In WorldofGlorantha_at_yahoogroups.com<WorldofGlorantha%40yahoogroups.com>,
> Peter Larsen <p3larsen_at_...> wrote:
> >No disease, as far as I know, are caused by germs, bacteria,
> > or anything "real world,"
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> I remember that Sandy Petersen, i believe, once speculated that the worst
> Gloranthan diseases were indeed caused by purely natural means, and what
> made so dangerous was that no one had a way to cope with them! (I personally
> don't buy this one, but YGMV.)
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> Mark Mohrfield
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