Talk:Weepers/@comment-76.121.102.150-20140605175114

It's not subconjunctival hemorrhages that cause you to bleed from the eyes, it's a disease known as haemolacria.

Respectively subconjunctival hemorrhages are defined by bleeding *in* the eye, it occurs when a tiny blood vessel breaks just underneath the clear surface of your eye. The conjunctiva can't absorb the blood very quickly, so the blood is trapped under this transparent surface.

TL;DR: it just makes your eyes blood red.

Whereas haemolacria is a disease which causes you to cry blood, and since there are many causes for one to cry blood (stress included). I'll just go into the most common tear duct based diseases that do so: Tumors, foreign debris, and bacterial conjunctivitis.

Personally I like the idea of bacterial conjunctivitis or "pink eye" (and since the plague would kill you long before you could develop tumors that large anyways), it seems like a logical choice.

Now, about Dishonored's "rat plague"...

It is too complicated of a disease to just lump it in with the great plague epidemics we've had in the real world, if anything it seems to take a lot of inspiration from Leptospirosis.

Leptospirosis is in some ways worse than the real plague, though not nearly as spread out. Like the resale plague, Leptospirosis is rodent born, and again like the real plague, it caused fever, headache, and muscle pain. Now here's where Leptospirosis gets worse: meningitis of the outer layer of the brain, encephalitis of brain tissue with same signs and symptoms. On top of all of that it can also cause severe pulmonary haemorrhaging, and, yep, you guessed it.... Haemolacria.