Vae asks...

[sythyry]

The apology do I make now for not replying so well the last of my questions; each and every response that comes to me I shall give a reply today.

And -- what sort of monsters do you and your people suffer from?

Comments

[rowyn]

It's pretty unfair! Primes are lucky to have hardly any diseases.

[alex-muridae.livejournal.com]

Ah, but is it really now? After all, it's a very small number of said little things that actually make us sick; the grand majority are just living their lives, and a great many are actively helpful - we actually couldn't survive at all without some of the helpful kinds. Besides, they were here first.

[rowyn]

Hee! There is that.

[shurhaian.livejournal.com]

In absolute terms:

A) Even if they are a tiny portion of such microorganisms, there are so mind-bogglingly many different microorganisms that the pathogens are still legion.

B) Most of the ones that ARE pathogens probably weren't here before us, because they have altered themselves in time to thrive on us specifically. There are exceptions, but by and large, diseases - especially viruses - are very specific in their hosts, not unlike how the plagues that afflict the populous species of primes affect one species each.

(General note: Viruses are especially insidious in that not only do they grow inside us, they also use our very own mechanisms of life to do it... which is a large part of why they're so specific.)