# Plague inc. pathogen name ideas?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [October 28, 2012, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plague-inc-pathogen-name-ideas/639101 "2012-10-28T02:48:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plague-inc-pathogen-name-ideas/639101/1 "2012-10-28T02:48:50Z")

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Just downloaded a copy of Plague Inc. for my iPad, it’s a great little game, I know it’s based off the Pandemic series of flash games, but I never played those

That said, I’m getting a bit of morbid amusement thinking up amusing short names for my pathogens, they need to be nine characters long at the most, sadly, I can’t use Tritonian Hypermalaria, circuisitis, Better Than Life, or any long names

The ones I have been the most amused by are;

Yetiism  
Nothing  
Bad luck  
Religion (a virus)  
Politics (a parasite)  
Spam (the meat like substance, a fungus)  
Tribbles  
The Borg (nano virus)  
Apathy  
Boredom

I’m going to try a few other Futurama type ones next  
Brain slugs (parasite)  
THE HYPNOTOAD…all glory to the HYPNOTOAD (neurax worm)  
The brainspawn (prion)

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**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plague-inc-pathogen-name-ideas/639101/2 "2012-10-28T03:07:51Z")

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My daughter named hers ‘love’.

She enjoyed it when love killed all life on earth.

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**Author:** ![firstname](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7ab992/32.png) [@firstname](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/firstname)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2012, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/plague-inc-pathogen-name-ideas/639101/3 "2012-10-28T03:37:35Z")

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Yo dog and yo mamma.