Pls help, how to stop death stalk?

[Alexandr III. Biges]

If you want your neighbour to participate in your misery, send him an infected spy. When your spy enters one of his towns, it will become infected, too.

R'as

Gues I'll pay a few visits to my Roman "friends" :) (As Macedonian)

[Siris]

Oh my Egypitain buddies (pff, yea right) will enjoy the present that I'm going to send, from one city, to the next, to the next. Time to kill off the Egyptians with my biological weapons! MuHaHaHa!

Does it really never stop, and continue killing them all? Or, if a General gets it, does he always die? If so, could you end an entire civ. by killing all of its family members, just on the basis of them catching germ warfare?

[hoof]

A few things to keep in mind:

When a plague breaks out, sometimes named characters aren't affected right away. Thus it is vital (if you care about them) to check when the plague first occurs. If they are not infected, move them outside the city (but keep them isolated, just in case).

Even if they are, move them out anyway (and keep them isolated). This way if the city recovers before the character (or vice versa), the other doesn't reinfect the first.

Oh, and it pays to scout out a city *before* taking it. More than once have I taken a city, only to discover it was plague ridden (I guess I didn't notice the disfigured soldiers defending the walls ... ), and ended up losing a very experienced general to disease.