There is actually a very contagious disease in the game called Nosepickitis. It's highly contagious amongst NPC's

Cliff Briscoe has it really bad :sadvaultboy:

No, I still have dreams about Polyphoric Hemophilia.

I don't want to have to hunt the entire realm for Cure Disease potion so I can sleep.

To be fair I should not have said he has cancer. It is not confirmed. He does chain smoke, coughs up blood and has a hard cough.

It was probably just a oversight or it would be just to complicated to put in.

I always said he should quit smoking yet he constantly asks me for a smoke

I'm sure AIDS still exists, problem is how would you ever notice? It's not like the medical technology exists to do a T-cell count anymore. They'd just think they were "weak of constitution" or "sickly"


Also, it wouldn't be hard to implement diseases in-game, the engine explicitly has disease support, Oblivion had many of them.

It would be hard to include, but considering the amount of radiation there is plus that they may be children of people exposed to radiation there is practically no mention of cancer which should be astronomical.

Shouldn't this be in http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/forum/44-fallout-universe/?

I don't know where some of you got your pathology degrees, but the notion that disease would cease to have an impact upon humanity because populations are less dense or because the infected would die before they could spread illness is pretty funny. "Anything that was contagious would eventually disappear" is my favorite comment, so far.

First off, there are many living creatures capable of contracting and spreading disease to humans besides humans. Beyond that obvious fact, virtually everywhere humans exist in this game, they do so in groups, usually in filthy conditions and often with animals. You don't need a metropolis to spread disease. Believe it or not, diseases actually infected people many thousands of years ago, even though populations were much smaller than they are now. Regardless, one look at the average wasteland toilet (or medical clinic for that matter) ought to tell you that at a minimum there should be staph infections, which are of course contagious. Why people don't use all that Abraxo that's laying around is beyond me. It's as though some people never heard of bacteria.

This is a silly argument to be sure, but make no mistake, even if you plucked humanity off of the face of the earth, disease would still exist.
You could cover the surface of the planet with napalm and still it would exist.

Finally, I'd like to add to this ridiculous rant that Morrowind had over http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Diseases, yet still managed to be one of the greatest games ever created.