Diseases's from sci-fi and other sources:

A place to discuss disease's RL or SciFi<div> </div><div><div style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 3em; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px">From the VOY episode of the same name.</div><div style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 3em; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px">PHAGE</div><p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 0.4em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px">The phage was a disease that afflicted the Vidiians, killing thousands daily for approximately 2,000 years. The disease was highly adaptive to nearly every new form of medical treatment, and adapted so fast that their "immunotechnology [could not] keep up." It consumed the Vidiians, at first disrupting their genetic code, then devouring their body tissues and destroying cellular structures. One of the early symptoms of the disease was excruciating joint pain. Some victims had been known to die simply from the agony itself, and euthanasia of afflicted persons was common. (<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: help; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px" title="Star Trek: Voyager">VOY: "<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: help; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px" title="Phage (VOY 1x05)">Phage", "<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: help; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px" title="Faces (VOY 1x14)">Faces")<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px">The Vidiians survived in the short term by making extensive use of transplantation and organ piracy, using transporter technologyto literally steal healthy organs from the bodies of their owners. Increasingly desperate, the Vidiians resorted to kidnapping members of other species and experimenting on them.<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px">A Vidiian scientist, Sulan, believed that research into Klingon genetic material would eventually lead to a cure. (<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: help; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px" title="Star Trek: Voyager">VOY: "<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: help; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px" title="Faces (VOY 1x14)">Faces")<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px">In 2375, a group known as the Think Tank claimed to have cured the phage. (<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: help; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px" title="Star Trek: Voyager">VOY: "<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: help; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px" title="Think Tank (VOY 5x20)">Think Tank")<p style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px">In 2376, Doctor Lewis Zimmerman was suffering from a disease which was similar to the early stages of the phage. (<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: help; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px" title="Star Trek: Voyager">VOY: "<span style="border-style: initial; border-color: initial; text-decoration: none; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; cursor: help; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px" title="Life Line (VOY 6x24)">Life Line")The term "phage" is short for bacteriophage. The term "phage" itself literally means "to eat." A bacteriophage is a virus that reproduces within a bacterium - it infectsbacteria by attaching a hollow protein tail to a bacteria cell wall, injecting DNA (or sometimes, RNA) into the cell. Bacteriophages live at the expense of the bacteria they inhabit, and in most cases eventually kill their bacterial hosts.</div><div> </div><div><a href="http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Phage">http://memory-alpha.wikia.com… face="cambria, serif" class="Apple-style-span"> </div><div>This is a nice creepy disease as it leads to organ & tissue theft and horribly patched worked sufferers of the illness. I think this one might adapt nicely with a SF background. The race in question might have a nick name like "The Collector's", maybe be a bit of spacer's myth from outside the Frontier..</div>

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