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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gilladian" data-source="post: 6308187" data-attributes="member: 2093">Going with either miasmas that create disease, or with a largish plague that escapes early attempts to quarantine it, I think the next things that would happen would be those who can, isolating themselves, yes, and field hospital/curing stations to collect the diseased and cure them if possible, treat them if not.I would be hesitant to allow dispel magic (cast by a wizard) to do ANYthing to affect a disease; certainly not if using the real world bacteria/virus as your vector. There's nothing magical about it. If using the miasma idea, I would be much more likely to have remove curse be effective. Or bless.There's one swamp in my world which is a source of miasma - it was created when a lich's tower was destroyed and the whole region sunk by a devastating spell-war between the lich and an army of good folk (aided by a dragon). The swamp air is miasmic to any non-native creature (one whose ancestors were not living there when the swamp originated). Bless or Cure disease cast on a person before entering the swamp will protect them for some time, as will wearing a particular holy symbol, but mostly people STAY OUT! Once in a great while the miasmic air is carried out (a freak storm, a magical wind, etc...) and affects nearby places; this is when the clerics are required to use their bless spells, cure disease spells, etc... in mass to prevent plague.</blockquote>