to your uvula". the only known cure, according to the portrait of a healer in st. mungo's hospital for magical maladies and injuries, is to bind the liver of a toad around the victim's throat and stand nude in a barrel of eel's eyes under a full moon. the portrait said that he believed ron had this disease, due to the "unsightly blemishes" on his face. ron would later use this disease in harry potter and the deathly hallows as an excuse as to why he was unable to return to hogwarts, when in actuality he and his friends were out searching for lord voldemort's horcruxes. stand virus jojo's bizarre adventure passed down through family, however it is not hereditary. when a person is infected their family members will be infected at around the same time. it comes from a meteorite that was later made into several arrows. the symptoms of the virus are an intense, untreatable fever. if the person infected has enough willpower and survives, they earn a stand ability that is a manifestation of their soul. not everybody suffers through the fever before obtaining a stand. stone sickness the edge chronicles by paul stewart and chris riddell not a human disease, but one that affects humans and other inhabitants of the edge by attacking the rocks of the flight ships that are the primary means of transport and communication on the edge. as the flight ships are carried aloft by the rocks, this puts an end to business and trade, resulting in a brief societal collapse followed by a gradual rebuilding of society when the edge's inhabitants become accustomed to life with stone-sickness. symptoms of infected flight rocks include a brief scar, followed by an open wound and a gaping hole as the rock dissolves. eventually the sky ship drops clean out of the sky. many theories abound on the origin of stone-sickness. some people blame the gods. others blame the mother storm, the mysterious meteorological creator of the edge. some say that the sky pirate captain cloud wolf who perished in the mother storm somehow infected her and the stone-sickness is a result of his pestilence. it is only at the end of the series that it is revealed the gloamglozer created the disease and it had been incubating inside the stone gardens ever since he fled the city of sanctaphrax almost a century before the sickness. stripes a bad case of stripes by david shannon an unnamed disease that causes the affected individual to change color/pattern when names of patterns are used. cured and/or prevented by being yourself, or not hiding a part of yourself. (the girl in the story loves lima beans, but won't admit it for fear of being "weird".) super-smallpox stormbreaker a genetically engineered version of the smallpox virus that iraq made in the gulf war. herod sayle used the disease in his plans for vengeance. he genetically modified it so it would kill whoever it infected immediately. fortunately, the plan was stopped by alex and the virus was taken and quarantined by mi6. implied in snakehead that sayle acquired the virus (apparently the r-5) from scorpia, a spectre-like criminal organisation that sponsored his project. "t4 angel virus" hollows (series) by kim harrison the result of genetic engineering, the t4 angel virus was spread by infected tomatoes. it wiped out a large percentage of humanity, along with the elves and several other species that had been secretly coexisting. other species unaffected by the virus, such as witches, vampires, and werewolves, soon equaled humanity's depleted numbers and began living openly. tomatoes are still feared and shunned by humans throughout the series. "teen plague" black hole by charles burns also known as the "bug." it is a mutagenic std that causes grotesque mutations, such as extra body parts, to grow all over the body. seems to affect only teenagers. time-lag oxford time travel seriesby connie willis mental illness caused by a biochemical imbalance due to excessive time travel. symptoms include fatigue, irritability, blurred vision, impaired hearing and "a tendency to maudlin sentimentality". v-cids immortalsthe immortals an aids-like virus. vampiris i am legendby richard matheson a bacillus (rod-shaped) bacterium that causes photosensitivity, hysterical blindness near mirrors, overdevelopment of canine teeth, and production of a bulletproof adhesive. victims feed on blood. while in the body, it is anaerobic, and causes the victim to exhibit vampire-like behavior. outside the body, it sporulates into dust. if an infected person is cut deep enough, the bacteria turns them into powder. can be treated, but not cured, with a pill containing a fusion inhibitor and dehydrated blood. venus particle tyrannosaur canyon an extraterrestrial infectious particle found in a lunar rock sample and within a fantastically well-preserved tyrannosaur fossil in the new mexico desert. it is later revealed that the organism came to earth via the chicxulub asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. the particle, which was named for its resemblance to the symbol of venus and femininity, causes rapid mitosis and apparent cellular differentiation in its host. wanderer's folly the night paradeby ronald malfi an inexplicable virus with symptoms of delusions, hallucinations, paranoia, and ultimately death, which affects humans and birds and brings the world close to the brink of extinction while allowing insects to overpopulate. the illness is named after the first few cases, where the infected, lost in daydream-like hallucinations, wandered into traffic. wandering sickness the shape of things to comeby h.g. wells a product of biological warfare, the disease in its final stages causes victims to wander about in a zombielike daze; with civilization reduced to that of the dark ages the only effective response is to kill any infected before they can spread the contagion to others. the disease was also portrayed in the 1936 film adaptation things to come. white blindness blindnessby josé saramago a mysterious epidemic of sudden blindness affecting virtually all humanity, leading to society's collapse. so-called because victims see nothing but a white glare. not to be confused with the white blindness in watership down which is a name the rabbits use for the real illness myxomatosis that affects rabbits causing blindness and death. wildcard coccus a certain magical indexby kazuma kamachi it is a highly virulent killer bacterium. its method of infection was very complex and it would mix in with other microorganisms and multiply. it could be transmitted via air, blood, mouth, or skin contact. it could grow even more dangerous by combining with athlete's foot, lactobacillus, or other extremely common pathogens. white disease white disease by karel čapekthe white diseaseby karel čapek an incurable form of leprosy, killing people older than 30. white plague white plague by frank herbertthe white plague by frank herbert a genetically engineered virus that kills only women. released only on the irish, english, and libyans. white sickness burning bright by melissa scott white-sickness, a pneumatic histopathy, also known as lung‑rot oruhanjao, translatable as "drown‑yourself" in the language of the story's aliens – is classified as a dangerous condition less because it is fatal, which it is, than because it is contagious until treated. simple organ transplants inevitably fail, due to the mechanisms by which the disease alters the lung tissue, slowly dissolving it into a thick white mucus, so that the patient drowns in body fluids even as the lungs themselves stop working. wildfire virus the walking dead a viral disease of unknown origin. when a human is infected with wildfire, the disease will infect all cells and lay dormant until the host dies. after the victim's clinical death, the host will be reanimated and exhibit zombie-like behavior. however the disease will only activate lower brain function, mostly those controlled by the brain-stem, where feeding and motor functions are controlled. the host becomes a violent, mindless cannibal, and can infect other people with the active agent of the wildfire virus by biting or scratching, eventually resulting in the clinical death of the host. the symptoms that occur before the victim's clinical death include fever, headache, fatigue, confusion, hallucinations and paralysis. the disease has a very short incubation period of around 48 hours. the disease leads to society's collapse and results in a world stricken by a zombie apocalypse. xenovirus takis-a wild cards by george r. r. martinwild cards by george r. r. martin xenovirus takis-a, also known as the wild card virus, works by completely altering the victim's dna. it has been theorized that the process is guided by the victim's own subconscious, influenced by the person's desires or fears. in this way, the virus works as a modern aladdin's lamp. the transformation is extremely individual, no two persons are affected in exactly the same way. in 90% of cases, the victim's body cannot assimilate the extreme changes, and the person dies horribly. these cases are called black queens. from the survivors, 9 out of 10 are changed for the worse, becoming monstrous creatures nicknamed jokers. the miraculous 1% of infected are changed for the better and become aces, gifted with superhuman physical or mental capabilities while still remaining human in appearance. xenovirus takis-b wild cards by george r. r. martinwild cards by george r. r. martin xenovirus takis-b, also known as the trump virus, is an artificial organism created by dr. tachyon as a possible cure for the wild card virus. ideally, the trump virus reverses the genetic changes caused by the wild card virus, transforming a wild carder back into a normal person. the trump virus is only successful in about twenty-four percent of attempts. forty-seven percent of the time it doesn't work at all, and an appalling twenty-nine percent of the time, it outright kills the patient. in other words, it is more likely to kill than cure. the jokertown clinic only uses the trump virus as a last resort, in the most severe cases where the victim has nothing to lose. in film name source symptoms brain cloud joe versus the volcano the brain cloud has no symptoms – apart from quickly and painlessly killing in about six months. possibly made up by the doctor making the diagnosis, given how it relates to the plot of the movie. carnosaur virus carnosaur a genetically engineered virus created by dr. jane tiptree. infects fertile women of child-bearing age (including dr. tiptree herself), making them pregnant with a dinosaur. rather than being born, upon maturation the dinosaurs tear their way out of the womb, killing the woman in the process. chimera mission impossible ii chimera has a 20-hour dormancy period before it causes death by mass destruction of the victim's red blood cells. bellerophon can only save the victim if used within that 20-hour window. climate change denial disorder climate change denial disorder satirical parody comedy film about a fictional disease causing individuals to lose understanding of words and concepts related to climate change denial. comathe coma plagueclive barker's the plague affects all children. induces a 10-year coma, after which the children simultaneously wake up and desire to kill all adults. the flare aka flarevirus vc321xb47 the maze runner trilogy this virus was created by the fictional post-flares coalition as a means of population control. the virus slowly eats away at the victim's brain, turning the host into a bloodthirsty, irrational humans called "cranks" who consider killing, cannibalism and torture as everyday objectives. a mutation of this disease, referred to as "the sting" by the gladers, can be delivered by grievers into their victims. however, there are people who are immune to the virus, but this is only less than one percent of the population. the series as a whole revolves around wicked/wckd (world in catastrophe killzone experiment department/world catastrophe killzone department) trying to find a cure for the virus in order to correct the mistake of releasing the virus. although they succeed in the movies, they fail in the books. the fever cabin fevercabin fever 2: spring fever necrotizing fasciitis caused by an unknown bacterium which causes massive hemorrhaging and tissue necrosis. the first symptom of the disease is usually a painful rash, which develops into a scabby or weeping wound. in later stages, tissues become soft and slough away. the initial rash stage can be exacerbated by harsh physical trauma, as was seen when one affected woman discovered hand-shaped rashes on her body, where she had recently been tightly