Editing Flu

<includeonly>''Main article: [[flu]]''</includeonly>
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=Overview=
The flu is a [[disease]] in RimWorld that can be caught by your colonists. General symptoms include impaired consciousness, manipulation, breathing, and eventually vomiting. Advanced symptoms include frequent vomiting, a small amount of pain, and eventually death - along with the general symptoms. The disease occurs at 33.3% progress towards death, but also 34.7% immunity in a young, healthy individual. The Flu is a somewhat easy disease to beat; requiring only a modest (healthy) doctor with ordinary, or even herbal medicine.

As the Flu immunises faster than it develops, it's extremely easy to take care of. It only proves a major threat to those above the age of 40, but even then you don't need a very skilled doctor - or very good medicine to dispatch of the disease.

If left untreated, the flu can kill ''vulnerable'' people in 4.018 days. <br>
It takes 3.431 days to develop immunity to the flu, assuming the patient is rested in an ordinary bed for the whole time, and under the age of 40.

=Stages=
====Minor (Hidden) - Severity: 0 - 0.332====
*No effect on the affected colonist.
*Buildup to the initial 33.3% disease head start that the flu has.

====Minor - Severity: 0.333 - 0.665====
*-5% Consciousness
*-5% Manipulation
*-10% Breathing

====Major - Severity: 0.666 - 0.832====
*Vomiting every 1.5 days (36 hours) on average
*-10% Consciousness
*-10% Manipulation
*-15% Breathing

====Extreme - Severity: 0.833 - 1====
*+5% Pain
*Vomiting every 0.75 days (18 hours) on average
*-15% Consciousness
*-20% Manipulation
*-20% Breathing
*Death
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=Overcoming the Flu=
As the flu's a somewhat trivial disease as it immunises quicker than it deteriorates, you don't really need to be terribly mindful of treatment of those below 40. The following will apply to 80+ year old victims affected by the flu...

As with any patient, you'll want to make sure the people affected by the flu are in bed at all times, well-fed, and treated when necessary. You need to provide at least 30% treatment quality in order for 80+ year old patients to survive the flu - as long as their blood filtration levels are normal. You'll generally want to aim higher than this though, as 30% quality is the bare minimum needed to survive, and may not always work.

The following combinations of medicine skill and medicine types will be able to provide 30% treatment quality (assuming the doctor is healthy and unmodified):
*Level 1 Medicine and [[Glitterworld Medicine]]
*Level 3 Medicine and ordinary [[Medicine]]
*Level 6 Medicine and [[Herbal Medicine]]

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