Different Diseases?

[AirplaneLavatory]

Wouldnt it be pretty awesome if players could catch a variety of different sicknesses, like lets say you walk too close to a rusty old car and cut your self on it, then you would get tetanus and would need special meds. (also you could just have a disease when u spawn in like HIV or something like that) or you could walk over a pile of dead bodies on accident and get some sorta infection or something..... Good idea or Bad idea

[Saxxon]

Rocket has already said there will be several different diseases to can get and there will be certain drugs to take to cure different illnesses.

ex. cholera from drinking dirty water

[Gubbjeveln]

I think there is already different ways to get sick. I, at least have "practised" so far:

-Overdrinking water, puking dehydrating. Needed infusion to recover
-Wounds from Zombies. Infections, never survived. Propably needed antibiotics
-Starvation. Took long time to cure with food and water and food and water and food...
-Infection. from using unpure rags. Nocure since did not find antibiotics.

None of these occations I got proper information of my illness. Worst was zombieinfection. As colours slowly slowly faded away, I never realized that I was seriously ill untill avatar started to complain by mourning.

[Nina]

There are at least 12 diseases planned.
Some of them have already been implemented.

[SmashT]

Cholera, Typhoid fever, Dysentery, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, Leptospirosis, Tuberculosis, Viral Meningitis, Bacterial Meningitis, Common cold, Influenza

By no means final, mechanisms for all have not been confirmed but that's the current working list. You must find specific antibiotics for the infection. You only receive information on your symptoms, never on your infection. Furthermore, you can sometimes find the vaccines (if they exist in the real world) for most of these conditions. Many of these conditions will only really affect late-game characters.

http://forums.dayzgame.com/index.php?/topic/107637-feedback-on-status-of-infectious-diseases-in-dayz/