Moss Rash

This is the most divergent from OTL of all the rashes that exist in the Americas. It is also the only of the Amazonian diseases that have successfully made the jump to North America. It evolved sometime before 20,000 BCE

Life-Cycle of the Pathogen
When an individual is infected, only slight changes darkening and coarsening of the skin occurs around the infected area as it grows slowly beneath the skin with minimal itching. When it blooms, it does so without warning and quickly forms several pimple-like protrusions of skin bearing fungal spores from the infected section of the skin. The infected skin also becomes extremely itchy.

During this period, it becomes extremely infective as it takes only a few spores to infect someone. Some spore would have typically touched over parts of the infected and before long the whole skin is infected. The Fungi itself slowly destroys skin, causing periodic itching and then a pain before most sensation from the infected area seize.

It was named the Moss Rash because when it first started infecting hominids, they concluded that it was from moss.

Symptoms and Effects
Discoloured and/or roughened skin; protrusions on the skin; loss of sensation in skin