Favorite Fictional...Diseases?

In My Humble Opinion
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Frank Herbert’s White Plague, from the book of the same name. It was developed by a bioresearcher as vengeance for the IRA bombing that killed his family. It killed women exclusively.

Brain cloud? -Joe vs. the Volcano

Hollywood amnesia, seen in everything- lately in last season’s 24, where Keifer’s wife forgets just enough to keep the mystery in the plot.

The puberty-induced madness disease on Star Trek’s Miri.

Oh, and how about the galactic “disease” in Trek’s Immunity Syndrome? That was one big bacterium.

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Nymphomania

…seriously. Has anyone known anyone to clinically have this “disease”?

…and if you do, can I have name, address and phone number please.

:smiley:

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I’d think he’s talking about the guys who TURN into wolves, not those who THINK they’re wolves.*

*I think that’s the symptom…

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Never mind that it’s an addiction instead of a disease, I’d go with Bloodhype addiction, from Bloodhype, by Allan Dean Foster.
100% addiction rate, guaranteed death unholily expensive…

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Never mind that it’s an addiction instead of a disease, I’d go with Bloodhype addiction, from Bloodhype, by Allan Dean Foster.
100% addiction rate, guaranteed death unholily expensive…

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These weren’t mentioned in any stories, but two diseases inspired by street signs near my office are:

Infectious Clementina and Malignant Natoma.

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The engineered, nanomachine-breakdown-induced Tourette syndrome in Greg Bear’s Slant

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Every once in a while I’ll find myself referring to Jovian Crotchrot. I must’ve read it somewhere, but can’t for the life of me remember where …

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The Twibbit on occasion knows
A difficulty with its toes.

–Edward Gorey, The Utter Zoo

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I always liked the Andromeds Strain.

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Captain Trips, from The Stand.

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Xenovirus Takis-A, The Wild Card Virus (90% die, 9% deformed, 1% get superpowers!)

At the risk of being set straight by Ukulele Ike, mummy rot?

does Reefer Madness count?

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Xenovirus Takis-A, The Wild Card Virus (90% die, 9% deformed, 1% get superpowers!)

At the risk of being set straight by Ukulele Ike, mummy rot?

does Reefer Madness count?

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The Red Fever, from Victor Kelleher’s The Red King.

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I think, just for the heartbreaking weirdness of it all, the Merlin sickness from Hyperion by Dan Simmons.

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I thought that DFSW’s (Delicate Flower of Southern Womanhood) got dewey when they were too hot.

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Spontaneous pan-corporeal organ rejection
Transdermal vomiting
Ingrown brains
Explosive urethral exsanguination
Rockin’ pnuemonia
Boogie-woogie flu
Cat scratch fev…wait, nevermind
24-hour Down’s syndrome
Death by chocolate

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Mr. as-u_wish asks me to post PMS. He claims it’s fictional. Comments are about to be made. He may survive. Report at 10.

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Tumorsyphillisitisosis (from Family Guy).

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Rage - from 28 days later