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Altarian Encephalitis

A retrovirus that incorporated its DNA directly into the cells of its host.

The virus can lie dormant for years, but activate without warning. Victims would be pyrexic and comatose and would suffer from widespread synaptic degradation. Long-term memory, usually from the moment of the infection, would be destroyed.

Achilles' Fever

Deadly disease capable of spreading rapidly in a planetary population and causing widespread and painful deaths in the millions.

Andronesian Encephalitis

A disease transmitted by airborne particles.

Aphasia

Dysfunction of certain brain centers affecting the ability to communicate in a coherent manner.

Aphasia Virus

Virus created by Bajoran scientist Dekon Elig, intended to be used as a terrorist weapon against the Cardassians.

The disease organism would have been delivered through an aphasia device planted in a food replicator by the Bajoran underground. Once contracted, the virus would find its way to temporal lobes and disrupt normal communication processes, causing a type of aphasia. As the virus spread, it attacked the autonomic nervous system, causing a coma, then death.

Arethian Flu

Viral disease.

Atherosclerosis

A pathological condition in some humanoid species characterized by the hardening of the arteries and accompanied by the deposit of fat in the inner arterial walls.

Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome

An intron virus that causes humanoids and other animals to develop structural and behavioral characteristics of earlier evolutionary forms.

Bendii Syndrome

Rare illness that sometimes affects Vulcans over the age of 200.

The disease is characterized by gradual loss of emotional control; victims exhibit sudden bursts of emotion and irrational anger.

Biomimetic Fluctuation

Medical reading in Founders that are indicative of dangerous instability of the morphogenic matrix.

Cartalian Fever

A deadly viral plague.

Cholera

Acute infectious enteritis, common on Earth in the 19th and 20th centuries, caused by the organism Vibrio cholerae.

Claustrophobia

Morbid fear of enclosed or confined spaces.

Cold, common

An infection of the upper respiratory tract caused by any of over 200 viruses in many humanoid species.
By the 24th century, the common cold was a curable ailment.

Coleibric Hemorrhage

A fatal condition in Cardassian physiology.

Cytotoxic Shock

Prostration of bodily function caused by high levels of cytotoxins.

Darnay's Disease

A deadly ailment that attacks the brain and nervous system of its victims.

Dermal Dysplasia

Skin disorder caused by an overexposure of the epidermis to hazardous levels of thermal and ultraviolet radiation.

Dorek Syndrome

A very rare and incurable disease that afflicts one out of every five million Ferengi.

Forrester-Trent Syndrome

Degenerative neurological disorder.

It is very rare, but if left untreated, can result in paralysis and even death. The syndrome is usually hereditary but can be activated by a random mutation. A neurostabilization regimen can stabilize or reverse the disease.

Hemocythemia

Medical condition in which intercellular pressures are unstable.

Hesperan Thumping Cough

A flu-like affliction.

Holodiction

Contraction for holodeck addiction.

A psychological condition where an individual becomes so caught up in holographic simulations that the real world becomes unimportant.

HTDS

Holotransference Dementia Syndrome.

Medical condition in which a person becomes so disoriented within a holographic simulation that they lose their sense of identity and start to think that they are part of the program.

Hyper-REM

Abnormal neurological condition during sleep.

Hyperacceleration

Biochemical condition that plagued the people of planet Scalos due to radiation poisoning of their water supply.

Hyperacceleration of biological processes caused an individual so affected to experience one second as if it were an entire hour. Outsiders who were accelerated, quickly burned out, dying in a very short period to time due to cell damage.

Iresine Syndrome

A very rare neurological disorder in humanoids characterized by a peculiar electropathic signature in the thalamus, and a severely decreased histamine count.

Victims of the disorder, first identified in the 23rd century, would fall suddenly into a coma for approximately 72 hours.

Diagnosis could be confused by the presence of any of 22 different substances that left electropathic residue resembling that of this disorder.

Irumodic Syndrome

Degenerative disorder that causes progressive deterioration of the synaptic pathways.

The disease can cause senility and eventually death. Treatment of choice for the disorder was peridaxon, though this was simply palliative; no cure existed.

Iverson's Disease

A chronic disease that causes fatal degeneration of muscular functions in humans. Iverson's disease does not however, impair mental functions.

Kalla-Nohra syndrome

A chronic pulmonary disease unique to individuals, both Bajoran and Cardassian, who survived a particular mining accident at Gallitep.

Lacunar Amnesia

Type of amnesia that occurs when a patient witnesses an act of violence so terrible that the patient rejects the reality of the situation.

Morphogenic virus

A virus engineered by Section 31 and designed to kill the Founders. The main symptom was a decreasing ability to shapeshift, accompanied by pain; the progress was accelerated by frequent morphing. The cure was a nucleotide marking sequence consisting of adenine, asporanine, lidestolinine, and radonine.

Neural Depletion

Complete loss of electrochemical energy of a humanoid brain, resulting in the death of the victim.

Neural Metaphasic Shock

A potentially fatal failure of the neurological system in humanoids.

Orket's disease

A childhood virus that swept through Bajoran work camps during the Occupation.

Plasma Plague

A group of deadly virus types.

An unclassified but extremely virulent strain of plasma plague threatened the densely populated Rachelis system in 2365.

Pottrik syndrome

A disease similar to Kalla-Nohra syndrome.

Psi 2000 Virus

A water based disease organism originally found on the planet Psi 2000 in 2266.

This virus infected members of the Federation science team stationed on that planet, causing suppression of their inhibitions, and ultimately their deaths.

Quickening

The terminal stage of the Blight. Symptoms include the turning of the blue skin lesions to red; toward the end, the victim is weak and prone to muscle spasms, all accompanied by extreme pain. It is also marked by increased leukocyte production.

Rigelian Fever

Deadly disease resembling bubonic plague that infected the Enterprise crew in 2269, necessitating that a landing party beam down to the planetoid Holbert 917-G in search of the antidote, ryetalyn.

Rop'nGor

A disease that sometimes affects Klingon children, somewhat akin to terrestrial measles.

Rudellian plague

Pentath III was stricken by an outbreak of it, for which the Cardassians requested humanitarian aid from the Federation.

Sakuro's Disease

An extremely rare disease contracted by Commissioner Nancy Hedford which can cause intense fever, weakness, and death if not treated.

Somatophysical Failure

In humanoid physiology, the collapse of all bodily systems.

Stockholm Syndrome

In psychology, the tendency for hostages to sympathize with their captors after extended captivity.

Symbalene Blood Burn

Virulent disease that can rapidly kill a large number of people in a very short period of time.

Synthococcus novae

Bacillus strain organism, a by-product of modern technology. Although treatable, the deadly bacillus was regarded as a significant health hazard.

Tahiti Syndrome

Twentieth century term or a human longing for a peaceful, idyllic natural setting when suffering from the stresses of modern life.

Temporal Narcosis

Delirium produced by exposure to a temporal disturbance.

The Blight

The name given by the natives of the Teplan system to the disease that they were infected with by the Jem'Hadar as an example to all who defied the Dominion. Everyone there is born with it. In the asymptomatic stage, the victim has blue lesions on the face and body, which turn red with the onset of the terminal stage, known as Quickening; death soon follows.

Thelusian Flu

An exotic but harmless rhinovirus.

Transporter Psychosis

Rare medical disorder caused by a breakdown of neurochemical molecules during transport.

Transporter psychosis was first diagnosed in 2209 by researchers on the planet Delinia II. The condition affected the body's motor functions, as well as autonomic systems and higher brain functions. Victims were found to suffer from paranoid delusions, multi-infarct dementia, tactile and visual hallucinations, and psychogenic hysteria. Peripheral symptoms included sleeplessness, accelerated heart rate, myopia, muscular spasms, and dehydration.

The problem was eliminated around 2319 with the development of the multiplex pattern buffer.

Tuvan syndrome

A degenerative, incurable neurological disease which affects mainly Vulcans, Romulans, and Rigellians. In the very early stages, the patient's eyelids are slightly displaced, facial muscles are weakened, and respiration is irregular. Loss of motor skills occurs in 10-15 years; life expectancy is 20-25 years. In less than 5% of cases, the disease can accelerate without warning.

Vegan Choriomeningitis

Rare and deadly disease. The symptoms include high fever, pain in the extremities, delirium, and death if not treated within 24 hours.

Xenopolycythemia

Disease characterized by an abnormal proliferation of red blood cells causing varied symptoms including weakness, fatigue, enlarged spleen, and pain in the extremities.

Yarim-Fel syndrome

A terminal illness affecting Cardassians; it attacks the digestive tract, circulatory and respiratory systems, and cartilaginous tissues. It can be treated with hexadrin therapy or immunogeneration procedures, but there is apparently no cure.

Zanthi fever

A virus affecting the empathic abilities of "mature" Betazoids. It causes brief, intense headaches, during which the sufferer unconsciously projects his or her emotions onto others nearby, provided those emotions already exist in those others subconsciously. Fortunately, the sufferer is easily cured with a simple wide-spectrum antibiotic, and the effects on other people wear off in a day or two.