Thread:Ralok/@comment-8944282-20130602051419/@comment-9331905-20130602183516

a good solution to make everyone happy:

1) the original carriers of the plague were the mites/fleas, although Sokolov doesn't know about them).

2) they bit the bull rats and gave the plague to them

3) Burrows imported the plague-infected Bull Rats with mites to Dunwall

4) the mites/fleas or the bull rats infected the Gristian Rats too

5) it doesn't matter, whether the Bull Rats and the gristian Rats have a different size and behaviour, because they all carry the plague now.

the plague would be carried only by bites. humans infect each other, because the most infected humans have now mites living on them.

that's why prostitutes carry the plague without being infected (what is stated by the heart) - they get their elixir, but the mites live on them and carry the plague.

i think the bull rats and the gristian rats are different species or at least different races of one species, because evolving on different continents generates some differences in DNA. Burrows just imported the bull rats, because he didn't knew the mites and the gristian rats didn't carry the plague at this time.

I hope this is a good consense and everyone can agree to this.