Still Fever

Still Fever (also known as Blacksmith's Plague, Mother's Curse, and Rula in the Arathi Highlands) is a disease that is relatively unknown beyond medical professionals, mostly due to, or lack thereof, its prevalence. Persons infected with Still Fever often do not know they are carrying such a disease, and die before they can be properly treated.

History
Still Fever has been thoerized to have been around since the early days of human evolution, where the term Rula became the first name for the condition. As time progressed and humans spread, the disease got many different names, usually in reference to the people it is said to strike.

Today, the disease still claims people, but it often looked over as the general infection and death rate from the disease climbed to a record low in 620 K.C., with many even that the disease or pathogen was wiped out in many major parts of the Eastern Kingdoms.

Symptoms and Mortality Rate
Many victims of Still Fever often do not suffer any symptoms, although some are reported to complain of a mild fever and headache before they go to bed. Death often occurs within the first night of having the condition, with only ten percent of suffers going on to living the second day. If the person does wake up, he is likely to complain of severe headaches, an extremely high fever, hacking coughs, and rapid heartbeat. Many professionals recommend that the person be forced to stay awake if the person has Still Fever, and also instruct to prepare traditional methods of dealing with the flu.

With people often confusing it for the Flu or the Common Fever, they seek treatment for such diseases, though these methods of treatment often do nothing for the person in question. Fewer than two percent of victims live past five disease, and less than one percent fully recover.

Transmission
To this day, it is relatively unknown how the disease is spread. Many think that a dirty environment combined with extreme stress and heat will provide perfect conditions for the disease to take hold, though cases of noblemen and women of Lordaeron getting the disease in the opposite of such conditions are not unheard of. It is unknown if it can be spread by human contact, and if so to what degree.

Curiously, Still Fever has only been known to effect humans and high elves, with no cases of any other race being reported to catch the disease.