- Thane's Medical Report From Dr. Chakwas
- Lung Capacity: 42% (left-side lung shows large lesions, right lung has nodular lesions only)
- Antibiotic treatment: Now resistant to cipoxidin, malanarin, alburcin
- Metastatic progress: stomach, liver(minor), heart (negligible at this time)
- Treatment Options: Viable transplant candidate but refused to be added to list Synthetic lung generation currently impossible for drell
- Therapy and Care: At this time, Mr. Krios should continue getting regular cardiovascular exercise in order to stimulate lung movement and prevent or delay the stiffness that causes lack of oxygen transport. While physical stimulation may also be beneficial in keeping tissue flexible, any injury at this point will dramatically impact Mr. Krios' body and cause rapid degeneration. It is unclear how much longer Thane will be able to serve in direct action. Thane should continue to wear loose clothing that leaves his chest uncovered to prevent moisture buildup that could worsen the problem
Combined with information from Wowwiki (reliable enough):
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- Because the drell ancestors emerged from arid, rocky deserts, the humid, ocean-covered hanar homeworld of Kahje proved tolerable only when the drell stayed inside a climate-controlled dome city. The leading cause of death for drell on Kahje is Kepral's Syndrome, caused by cumulative long-term exposure to a humid climate. This syndrome erodes the ability of drell lungs to take in oxygen, and eventually spreads out to other organs. It is noncommunicable, and there is currently no known cure, though leading hanar scientific authorities are working on creating a genetic adaptation.
Antibiotics don't work on anything other than bacterial life. Virus and Animal cells like those of humans and lizards, whatever Thane is, are completely unaffected by the effects of antibiotics. You only proscribe them to a patient, when he suffers a pathogenic bacteria within the body, whom are vurnerable to them. They might incidentally gain resistance to them, but the patient certainly doesn't.
So is it a condition where the body is ill adapted to the outside enviroments (with evident deterioriation into malignent tumors)?
Or is it an infection caused by bacterial pathogens that spread and inflict harm on cells?
It's possible that his infection is a side-effect of already weakened lung tissue through a non-pathogenic condition, but if the infection is so bad that they are already building up a resistance within his lunges, than the bacteria themselves will surely kill Thane before the condition does. Bacteria work fast when the situation favors them and Thane should be deadly ill from the infection alone, not capable of active duty as his body develop fevers to stave off infections to such an important organ as the lungs. At any rate, antibiotics are a treatment to a side effect and shouldn't be mentioned in efforts to contain Kepler's syndrome itself.
To say that Thane himself is resistant against antibiotics, clearly shows a lack of insight, unless a drell works completely unlike earth life. I'd be dissapointed in Bioware's writing staff if they make the silly mistake to think that antibiotics affect animal life.
With that, I must conclude that Thane's condiction is pathogenic to take still take Bioware seriously. Maybe this is caused by an oppurtunistic bacteria who thrives only when a drell inhabits moist conditions.
However, this makes curing it very easy. The bacteria could be eredicated and Thane be given immunotherapy instead of wait for gene therapy. If these assasins really are that valued, he could be given an antibody regimen to save his life. Give him passive immunity, before the drell can work out a way to arm his active immune system against it, so he can create his own antibodies through gene therapy. The only reason why we can't manage that in 2010, is because gene therapy is beyond our knowledge and innocculation through an antibody regimen is prohibitively difficult and expensive. But it perplexes me that in 2183, the Hanar and the entire scientific council community at that day and age, can't come up with an answer to a simple microbe and synthesize something apropriate when most major diseases have been lain to rest.
And if the bacteria is noncommunible, than how do the Drell contract it at all?
Bioware should either rethink their visions on antibiotics, or rewrite Dr. Hacksaw's report.
I'm also pretty perplexed about the connection between his lung tissue's inability to cope with moist conditions and cancerous metastasis onto other tissue. Kepler's system must develop tumors in Drell. It's very well possible to develop local cancer when tissue is stressed, but Bioware will have to be consistent. We're dealing with Drell Cancer.
Modifié par Skirlasvoud, 17 septembre 2010 - 12:38 .
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They've done really well up to this point. As a student of the sciences, I'm not just drawn into the story, I'm also drawn in to what they're doing to explain it. 
