Utrecht Visscher | Network 002

[frontier_doktor]

[Audio]

Guten Morgen! [Which he says no matter what time of day it is.] I've realized recently all the unique diseases and ailments that come with living here, and I've been wanting to augment the clinic's database. I offered that I would do some research into diseases native to other universes and I was wondering which ones I should be most alert for. As well as different intoxicating substances. This doesn't necessarily have to include alcohol, but many recreational drugs and they can vary greatly between species.

Also is anyone here experienced with gene therapy? Genetic mapping?

[He wouldn't know the clinical way to put magical elements so he'll leave Braska to that.]

Comments

[timesbureaucrat]

Gallifreyans are resistant to most illnesses, with a few exceptions, but I can tell you what I know, plus a few diseases that I've heard about second hand.

Let's see...there's Chen 7, which only affects species with binary cardiovascular systems. It's very rare, but has a 90% fatality rate within 24 hours of infection so it was always of some concern on Gallifrey. Outbreaks are highly uncommon, however, and the disease kills so very quickly that it rarely spreads far and is easily contained by quarantine.

Then there's the Cheetah Virus, which rewrites a person's genetics and converts a person of any species into the Cheetah species. Not the Earth animal, a sentient bipedal race.

The Altarian plague is highly virulent air born disease and causes loss of all inhibitions. Virus KX Variant 243 causes the patient's skin to turn transparent and in more advanced stages causes uncontrollable space/time jumps. Most sinister is perhaps Minski's virus, which is a synthetically designed disease transmitted through ingestion or...ah...intimate contact, or passed down from an infected parent to a child in the birthing process. The virus was created to seize control of the thoughts and actions of the infected.

[He's leaving out the Dogma Virus. He doesn't want to talk about that publicly.]

[frontier_doktor]

The first one- is there any chance of curing it if treated in time? Or do the victims have to recover naturally.

[The last two sound very "normal" to him, in regards to how his universe runs. But he's going to have to come back to that cheetah virus.]

[timesbureaucrat]

There are treatments that can help the infected fight off the disease, if you can get to the patient in time. For Gallifreyans, a forced regeneration is often successful if done early. In the later phases of the disease regeneration becomes impossible.

[frontier_doktor]

It's something worth looking into at least.

[Private]

Speaking of which, I'm hoping I've found someone at least interested in helping with your condition. I will let you know.

[timesbureaucrat]

I certainly would appreciate having the treatment on hand. Just in case. It's extremely rare, but you never know.

[Private]

Thank you, Doctor Visscher. Might I ask who it is?