Diseases

As careful as you are about how you live your life, you’re always susceptible to nasty little diseases. Microorganisms are not very thoughtful, are they?

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Diseases Menu

  • sickness, illness, disease, infection, malady,
  • virus, bacteria, germ,
  • influenza, the flu,
  • common cold,
  • cold sore (herpes),
  • warts, flat warts, plantar warts,
  • food poisoning,
  • measles, chicken pox, childhood diseases,
  • cancer, melanoma,
  • respiratory disease, tuberculosis, hantavirus,
  • plague, the black death, small pox,
  • leprosy,
  • parasites, scabies,
  • worms: roundworm, flatworm, tapeworm,
  • toxoplasmosis,
  • autoimmune disease, AIDS, HIV,
  • necrotizing fasciitis (flesh-eating disease),
  • staph infection,
  • venereal disease (VD), sexually transmitted infection (STI), gonorrhea, syphilis, herpes, HPV,
  • diseases from animals: rabies, cat scratch fever, worms, giardia, campylobacter,
  • exploding pustules, alien world diseases, foreign diseases,
  • for other uncomfortable ideas, see WOUNDS,

Disease Effects

  • fever, high temperature,
  • sweats, chills, shivering,
  • sore throat, coughing, tickling throat, post-nasal drip,
  • watery eyes, puffy eyes,
  • runny nose, mucus secretions, snot,
  • itchiness, hives, allergy, reaction,
  • tingling, numbness,
  • headache, migraine,
  • tics, tremor, trembling, quaking, quiver, shiver, shake,
  • imbalance, vertigo, loss of balance,
  • lips are dry, cracked, chapped, bleeding, blistered,
  • hair falls out,
  • muscle pains, aches, tension, neck pain, aching joints,
  • acne, zits, pimples, skin break outs,
  • fainting, unconsciousness,
  • pustules, growths, tumors, cysts,blisters,
  • fatigue, exhaustion, worn out,
  • malaise, melancholy,
  • vision loss, blurry sight, blindness, starry sensation, auras,
  • anxiety, depression, angst, paranoia, rage, anger, uncontrollable crying, despair, hopelessness,
  • insomnia,
  • confusion, dementia, debilitation,
  • inability to speak, walk, stand, balance,
  • gas, farting, bloating, burping, belching,
  • diarrhea, runny stool,
  • constipation, impacted stool,
  • compulsion, obsession,
  • delusion, visions,
  • loss of appetite, weight loss, anorexia,
  • nausea, vomitting, puking, upchucking, dry heaves, barfing, puking,
  • drooling,
  • stroke, blood clots,
  • blisters, bleeding, burning sensation, burning skin, sensitive skin, sheets of skin peel off,
  • excessive bleeding, lack of blood clotting,
  • convulsions, seizures,
  • paralysis, muscle loss, muscle weakness,
  • nerve damage, nervous system trauma,
  • phantom feeling,
  • pain, ache,
  • coma, vegetative state, catatonia, brain dead,
  • spiritual loss, possession, out of body experience, dimensional shift, become a ghost, enter the ethereal world, take a trip to heaven, abducted to hell by demons,
  • loss of abilities: magical, spiritual, superpowers, knowledge, prayer, spells,
  • death,

Disease Transmission

  • animal (or monster) bite, scratch, lick,
  • waste, feces, urine, poop, pee, droppings, soiled clothing,
  • breathing, aerosol, vapour, sneeze, coughing,
  • contact, touch,
  • saliva, kiss,
  • sex,
  • dead things, rotting corpses,

Disease Characters

  • animals, rats, mice, vermin, rodents, birds,
  • mosquitoes (the world’s most dangerous animal!), insects, ticks, bugs, housefly,
  • humans, a traveler, foreigner, visitor,
  • dirty orcs, goblins, monsters,

Disease Links and Resources