[Josias is feeling miserable and ill enough not to want to show his face on the network, but if there's some help to be given in pursuit of finding a potential cure, laying around feeling sorry for himself isn't going to contribute much.]

There was a sickness caused by the stasis fluid before, at jump seven. I don't believe anyone was able to find a sample to test out exactly what was wrong to have done it, but the symptoms also weren't anything like this.

[He'd also not suffered from any of them like he is now, but that might just be a case of luck rather than any immunity.]