Illness on Pandora?

[Ashen Key]

Originally Posted by Raiden

Since they are generally in balance with the ecosystem, this probably doesn't happen very often. If you look back at large dieoffs of humans from pandemics, it almost always had to do with something that we had done to allow the spread of the contagion responsible.

*g* I actually wasn't think about their version of the plague, just your perfectly normal, low-level, nasty illnesses that can be fatal. Particularly in childhood (which we in the first world don't have so much anymore, thanks to immunizations). And die-offs happen when a new disease is on the block, yes, because the local population hasn't built up an immunity yet.

Originally Posted by Raiden

But, despite Pandora being beautiful, there has to be something ugly somewhere. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing JC make some nasty worm or giant predatory insect or something to balance. I don't really think anything in nature is truly ugly anyway.

There are a couple nasty bugs around, which makes me think there would be other nasty things floating around. Pandoran ticks, for example, and things like that.