Military epidemiology

Make no mistake about it: our battle is with the germs. The front line is particularly volatile and liable to change in the immediate future. Here is an approximate view of the forces of infection ranged against us, subject to change on the arrival of more up to date disease intelligence.

The symbol conventions used follow the principles of campaign maps. You can see how thinly dispersed health units are in the northwest, compared to the disposition of immediate disease threats.

Those threats include arbovirus infections and neglected bacterial diseases, which you can follow on the Priobe Net and Life in the Fast Lane. Whitmore’s bacillus is particularly notable for its ability to lay low for many months and resurface when the conditions are right, to produce severe illness or less acute infection in pockets of disease activity throughout the Kimberley.  Leazar’s personal infection is unknown in this region, but other flavi-, alpha- and assorted other arboviruses are a potential mosquito-borne threat. The build-up of an unprotected civilian population in this region presents a possible vulnerability to the endemic infections of the area. Forewarned is forearmed.