Imaginary Virus for a game

[ryan at mbcf.stjude.org]

In article <3qatdg$hh1 at news.ysu.edu>, bf211 at yfn.ysu.edu (Jon M. Erickson) writes:
>     Hi, I'm currently running a ShadowRun campaign, where an 
> airborn virus escapes, and they players have to find the cure,
>  and I need some help. 
>   The virus attacks the bone marrow, and infects it.  However it
> doesn't destroy the cells.  It mearly changes what it does.  The
> marrow then produces mutated erythocytes, which quickly take 
> over the blood stream, as the old ones are destroyed by the liver 
> and spleen.  Here I had 2 ideas.  
>         1) The new erythrocytes keep thier nuclei,
> ... (much deleted) ... 
>   Jon Erickson

No comment on the no-iron hemoglobin thing (polyester & cotton ?)...

But you might get some useful ideas on virus biology by looking at a real virus
whose various pathologies revolve around infection of bone marrow cells.
Try a literature search for B19 parvovirus. Author name Young, N.S. is a good
place to start.

Cheers, Kevin.
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