At the height of the recent three-year quandary that the world had gotten into - and now has mostly escaped (I say "mostly" because it still lingers in some ways - refer to the discussion) - I had thought about discussing a related Pokémon aspect. However, I thought that it would be insensitive of me to do so, much like a situation involving submarines some time ago, so I held off on doing so for the three years that it went on. Now with the world the way it is, it seems more appropriate to make the discussion, moreover since neither the cause of the situation nor the related aspect is effectively going away in any case.
That aspect is of course the Pokérus, a "disease" that affects Pokémon in the main series games and related ecosystems. I say "disease" because while it does affect (infect) them like one, it doesn't have debilitating effects; on the contrary, it has stimulating effects. Once infected with the Pokérus, a Pokémon will be able to earn EV or Effort Values at twice the normal rate. The implication is that such a situation minimizes the required effort of training, and that's a win-win in a certain manner for Trainers and Pokémon alike (at least in most cases), unlike the "lose-lose" of a true disease.
Pokérus may be gotten from a Pokémon in the wild, though the chances of this are more or less like catching a Shiny Pokémon; they may be more likely gotten through a Wonder Trade for an infected species, as I did. Once in a party, the Pokémon will transmit Pokérus to other Pokémon in the party through battling activities, with an "infectious period" of a few days. Infected Pokémon may be "quarantined" by putting them in a PC box, and doing this freezes their "infectious period" until they are taken out to a party again. At "recovery", they will still have the Pokérus and its effects, but they will no longer be infectious.
What this means is that even in the Pokémon world, it is established that there are microorganisms affecting Pokémon much as there are ones for real-world creatures, including humans. It also becomes further affirmation that the world of Pokémon is in many ways an image or even an "alternate universe" branch of the real world. And while the "dark side" of such microorganisms may (or will) never be heard about, the Pokérus is a rather light-sided one in contrast. More importantly, it heeds at least some of the same principles by way microorganisms spread and infect larger organisms.
It's hard to deny that for as long as there are living creatures that develop themselves, there will always be microorganisms that develop along with them and have the possibility to infect them, as has been the case in the real world for a few years back. It is definitely not necessary to recall the plight from those few years, but it is necessary to recall that Pokémon has something of its own in its regard, and something that doesn't cause a plight, no less. At the least, now the discussion deserves to be made as a facet of Pokémon that is just as fascinating as any other in the great world of its franchise.
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