[Edi]

Ebola has a roughly 90% to 95% kill rate. Untreated syphilis hasa 100% kill rate, but it takes years or decades even. It will kill you, though. Tuberculosis, 60% death rate in 3 years for the more virulent strains, how about 10 years or 15 years? You don't get to cut off at some arbitrary point if we're talking about untreated diseases.

Leprosy doesn't kill in and of itself, but kills the nerves so you lose all feeling and won't notice minor injuries that get infected and will leave you a wreck. Read up on it (if nothing else, than the Covenant books, the descriptions are pretty graphic). It cannot be cured, as far as I know.

AIDS will kill you 100% certainly if untreated, and even treatment just postpones that fate. It's not the AIDS virus itself, but the other stuff that it allows to run rampant in your system, so in effect it's the cause.

Besides, that lymphoma article of yours is utterly irrelevant, because it predicts survival chances with treatment, while the whole goddamn setup in Dom2 is that present-day medical technology is not available, hence no available treatments! What part of this are you too stupid to understand?

But if you really want, I can easily get the opinions of qualified MDs to settle this, so wait over the weekend. We could use professional input here.

Edi