Plague

Sand Plague, Sand Filth, Sand Ulcers, Sand Fever. There are many different names for this lethal disease that strikes the Town. It's a metaphor for Evil and a major enigma in-game. There is much evidence of its possible animate status and of the total powerlessness of science to struggle against it.

Appeal to patrols, hospital attendants, doctors and executors
Do not distribute among civil population to avoid panic.

1. According to existing data, disease is incurable. For this moment there is no serum. Most likely that in the near future no medicines, specialists, advanced equipment will be sent from the capital. To wait help from outside would be faint heartedness. You have to act due to proposed circumstances.

2. Probability of falling ill considerably decreases with using the immune medicines. At present it is known that using of mixed type immunity reaction medicines assist in immunity stabilization. Research in that direction is being carried on. Similar medicines are requisitioned. Precaution: large doses of these medicines cause harm to health!

3. Synthetic protective clothes contribute into immunity rise. Woolen cloth is strictly prohibited (probability of infection due to parasite sting). Cloth should be changed systematically (recommended to burn out disposable draperies after every use).

4. Attention! Disease grows progressively heterogeneously! At the initial stage the disease practically does not develop if to detain it with antibiotics. However the disease starts growing rapidly in case of new contacts with infected objects.

5. Despite preliminary data the disease is not communicated through contacts. Most probably it communicates through airdrop duct, but there is already exist facts refuting the hypothesis. Ways of infection are not known at the moment. Exercise high vigilance!

P.S.: For your special attention, doctor. In connection with your special mission, you will not be able to avoid infection most likely. Therefore do not despair of the infection. Earlier or later. Maintain the disease at incubation stage, use antibiotics. Sooner or later the serum will be invented. Remember the so-called “powders”. According to preliminary information these quasi-antibiotics can bring you to lethal outcome, but they, as a rule, destroy the disease.

Stand firm.

The First Outbreak
Five years before the events of the game, the first outbreak of Sand Fever occurred.

It broke out in the Crude Sprawl and it was possible to localize: thanks to the unusual layout of the city, the quarter was boarded up quickly and thereby the infection did not spread. Isidore Boers and his students were able to suppress the Sand outbreak because they drank twyrine extracts prepared from the experimental method, and so got a chance to avoid infection.

However, Isidor did not take praise for his role in that victory. According to Younger Vlad, he did not like to talk about it and attributed the suppression of plague only to happy coincidence.

For some time before the outbreak of the epidemic, children played and invented Powder. Also during the first outbreak Ospina came from the steppe--"as a reminder," she said.

Citizens remember the first outbreak with horror, and when they learn that the disease came back, do not believe in salvation.