Bodily fluids: Aids (acquired immune deficiency syndrome) is caused by infection with the human immunodeficiency virus. Hiv is spread in bodily fluids, including semen, vaginal secretions, blood, and breast milk. People usually get aids by having unprotected sex with an infected partner, sharing needles with an infected person, or breastfeeding from an infected mother. ...Read more.
Who Cares is a scenario. In this scenario, poor countries are reduced in their ability to detect and research a Cure for the player's disease, thus reducing difficulty. Its opposite is Created Equal, which increases the ability of poor countries to do the above. As taken from the Scenarios menu:
The bacterium responsible - Yersinia pestis - was introduced to the US by rat-infested steamships in 1900, according to Daniel Epstein of the World Health Organization (WHO). Plague was pretty prevalent, with epidemics in Western port cities. But the last urban plague was in Los Angeles in 1925.