Disease



Disease is one of the few status effects in RuneScape. It is caused by being damaged by zogres, skogres and fever spiders, from the scarabs during Dealing with Scabaras, by failing to pick the lock on a zogre coffin, or failing to cut a scrapey tree in Trouble Brewing.

When a player has disease, shown by a yellow-brown hitsplat, the player's skills are reduced by a random amount that takes a very long time to recover from.

The only skill that is not affected by disease is constitution, all other skills may be reduced randomly by disease, taking away a number of skill points equal to the number on the disease splat. It will only lower one skill at a time and can lower the same skill multiple times in a row.

Wearing an inoculation brace can provide protection against disease, and will reduce the effects. Alternatively, bathing in the thermal bath in Oo'glog will cure and briefly immunise players against disease.

Curing disease
Skills will gradually recover on their own, but for an instantaneous recovery, potions from Herblore can be used. Stat restore potions will recover Combat skills except Prayer, while super restore potions will recover a limited amount of Prayer.

The effects of disease can be countered with Relicym's balm; drinking one or two doses will reduce the effect, while three will eliminate the disease altogether.

Bathing in the thermal bath in Oo'glog will cure disease, and temporarily immunise players against being infected again.

The unicorn stallion's (level 88 Summoning level required) 'Cure' effect cures both disease and poison, but requires some Summoning points.

The Bloated leech's (level 49 Summoning level required) Blood Drain scroll heals disease including poison and stat damage at the cost of some life points.

Disease is cured upon death and respawn. It may be easier (and cheaper) to bank all items and get killed, or die in a safe activity such as the Duel Arena.