Major Disease References?

[Targan]

Originally Posted by unkated

Ooops, you just said the magic word: manufacture.

We're not talking about a factory, more like a lab. It's WWI-level technology. Sure, if things have crashed so bad that you can't achieve a clean room in a 1920s tech level lab, even the plague is going to be hard to stop. Then again if things have crashed that badly, it's likely that your population has also crashed. If people aren't living in crowded conditions combined with poor sanitation and rampant rat infestations, the plague won't sweep through and be anywhere near as devastating as it was in Europe in the late Middle Ages.

[Olefin]

Remember guys disease has been used as a weapon for a very long time (recorded in history as far back as Alexander the Great) - heck look at the damage that was done to the American Indian with smallpox

While you might need a lab to grow some exotic disease it wouldn't take much to have infected blankets or medical supplies used by one group to spread a naturally occurring disease among a weakened population

by the way I don't see the French as being that powerful in the Caribbean Islands - if they were I highly doubt New America would have wasted the resources they have on a pirate fleet that a single French corvette could lay to waste