Once you're sick, you're status does not decline. Once your poisoned from say water it stays even with constant blood transfusions, charcoal tablets, chlorine tablets, alcohol tinctures, Tetracycline Pills, and Codeine Pills being utilized in combination with rest, group support.
Bug is game breaking, and forces players to commit suicide, since the sickness does not relieve, or become so severe that it either kills, or incapacitates the player outright.
It is making it to where we are unable to play the game at all.