I'm also seeing this. This is unrelated to the crash bug introduced in 1.06, but this task and Voeld's bugged "White Death" task are keeping me from 100% completion.
Yeah, same problem, but it clearly isn't getting patched, just like a million other issues in the game. I haven't seen this many quest and gameplay-breaking bugs since Skyrim release. Except Skyrim got 15 official patches and had full modding support.
Since they broke the area around the SOS quest I thought they had done something in there, then the patch came out to fix the freezing in that area, but the Herbal Entrepreneurs continues the same for me since day 1, can't pick a sample to give to the guy tending the sick one, only scan it, then Ryder says it could help the sick guy and that's all, quest completes with just the check mark on the "bring the UV light to the herbal entrepreneurs". I don't know what they did that broke the area around that place, but for me definately wasn't something that fixed this quest. I'm on PC in case it matters.
Playing on the PC as well.
Using the new 1.07 patch (hotfix) that was deployed on the 18/05/2017 - THIS IS NOT THE CRASH ISSUE!
I have the same issue as the OP. I cannot collect the herbs from the Kadara: Emergency SOS mission to give to the sick settler as 'Task: Running a fever' never starts.
I'm a little surprised that the crash issue was fixed for this mission but the broken quest lines were not fixed - does not bode well for the future.
Just had this issue. I took the plant but there's no quest to deliver it.
