Fallout 76 diseases

Diseases are a type of condition in Fallout 76.

Causes and effects
When the player character consumes unclean food and liquid, there is a chance of acquiring a disease. Being attacked by diseased creatures and sleeping on floor mattresses can also cause disease. Eating uncooked meat and drinking dirty water has the highest risks for disease.

Diseases cause a variety of effects including increased damage and needs, such as hunger. As of patch 1.2.1.18, the player character must be level 15 or higher to acquire a disease.

Prevention
Diseases can be avoided by cooking food, eating pre-War packaged food, and drinking boiled or purified water. Sleeping on raised mattresses and avoiding physical contact with diseased creatures will also avoid disease.

Maintaining a character's food and water needs each increases the resistance of disease by 25%, even more (35%) with the perk Rejuvenated. Taking antibiotics or consuming certain food and drink also temporarily increases disease resistance, but using RadAway will temporarily reduce disease resistance by 50%. The perks Iron Stomach and Thirst Quencher greatly reduce the chance of disease from consumed food and liquid, respectively, while the perk Vaccinated protects against diseased creatures.

Treatment
Diseases are time-limited and will expire. They can be cured prior to their expiration with disease cures or antibiotics. Alternatively, drinking from a sulfur water fountain, such as the one located at a white gazebo near the Whitespring golf club, will cure a disease. If the player character has the Plague Walker mutation, the disease will no longer expire over time.

Intentional diseases
Intentionally catching diseases is useful with the Plague Walker mutation or attempting to complete the challenge for acquiring all diseases. Note that similar to mutations, diseases have a 30-minute cooldown for catching another disease or 45 minutes for the same disease. Leaving the server resets this cooldown so that another disease can be immediately obtained upon joining a different server.

List of diseases
A player character can be infected with these diseases:

Болезни Fallout 76