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=Overview=
 
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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. The Flu is a somewhat easy disease to beat; requiring only a modest (healthy) doctor with ordinary, or even herbal medicine.
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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.
  
If left untreated, it will kill the affected colonist in around 4.018 days. <br>
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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.
It typically takes around 5.255 days to develop immunity to the Flu; assuming the affected colonist is rested in an ordinary bed for the whole time, has normal blood filtration, is well-fed, and is below the age of 40.
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If left untreated, the flu can kill ''vulnerable'' people in 4.018 days. <br>
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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.
  
 
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As with any other disease; you'll want to make sure the affected colonists are rested at all times, well-fed, and administered medicine as soon as possible. You need at least 45% treatment quality to slow the Flu's progression down sufficiently so that it doesn't kill the victim.
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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...
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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 doctoring skill and medicine types are capable of administering 45% treatment quality, but you'll generally want to aim for better than these - they are the bare minimum combinations required and may not always work if you're not on the ball with treatment, and due to the random nature of Alpha 16's medical system:
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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 2 Medicine and [[Glitterworld Medicine]]
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*Level 1 Medicine and [[Glitterworld Medicine]]
*Level 3 Medicine and standard [[Medicine]]
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*Level 2 Medicine and ordinary [[Medicine]]
*Level 5 Medicine and [[Herbal Medicine]]
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*Level 2 Medicine and [[Herbal Medicine]]
  
 
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Revision as of 18:02, 22 December 2016


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.
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


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):