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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 3069764" data-attributes="member: 1656">I always assumed that someone who is struck by a Mummy gets the MM version, while a person who comes in contact with someone who already has the disease risks catching the DMG version.So if you get hit by a Mummy, you almost immediately start losing Con and Cha, and healing spells don't work too well on you.A day later, the cleric who tried to cure you starts losing Con, but healing spells work on him okay.A day after that, the guy the cleric arm-wrestled yesterday starts losing Con as well...(Alternatively, one of the entries is wrong, but I figured that the Mummy bestows the disease along with the curse, while other people who come in contact with you can catch the disease from you, but aren't afflicted with the curse.)To eliminate mummy rot, the curse must first be broken with break enchantment or remove curse (requiring a DC 20 caster level check for either spell), after which a caster level check is no longer necessary to cast healing spells on the victim, and the mummy rot can be magically cured as any normal disease.Remember that you can normally recover from a disease by making your save two days in a row, but Mummy Rot needs magical curing.-Hyp.</blockquote>