Fantastic Beasts and Gruesome Diseases

[wellingtongoose]

A discussion of

• Purely magical diseases
• Ways in which infections can jump from magical creatures to wizards
• How the magical world controls the spread to muggles
• Why the magical world doesn't use modern medical techniques

In the previous essay I discussed how diseases contributes to the high death rate in the wizarding world and how the magical world

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[lindahoyland]

A fascinating essay which almost made me forget that Harry Potter is fictional!

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[chianazhaan]

Humans have trouble with the common cold and similar diseases that are highly mutable. If one assumes that a magical disease has a higher rate of mutation, even a minor magical disease would have major consequences. Which could explain why most life is non-magical