IMTU -
All TL10 or above medical systems on ships include nanovirals. In some
cases there's biotech that replenishes it, or it's considered part of
the life support replenishment on reaching a new port.
Colds, flus,etc are ruthlessly crushed while in jump space.... and the
run to 100D+Jump+in from 100D makes a nice quarantine period

On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 11:10 PM Jim Vassilakos - jim.vassilakos at
gmail.com (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:
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> How do colds, flus, and various communicable pathogens work in your Traveller universe? Yes, I know that worlds can get whacked (as in sterilized) by the Imperial Navy when they have a pathogen on the loose that is so dangerous, the Imperium cannot risk its continued existence. But aside from that sort of thing, which I suppose is extremely rare, what devilish viruses might develop in a population of many, many trillions of humans constituting a wide variety of genotypes, including many near-humans, such as the Zhodani? Or would all the bad viruses (or nearly all) be easily exterminated by Traveller-era medicine? Or, going in the other direction, would there be a million different colds and flus bouncing around from planet to planet, so that instead of getting vaccinated annually or even semi-annually, it's more like a monthly or even weekly ritual?
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