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Disease
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Work of Fiction
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Description
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Dragonpox
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Harry Potter series
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Contagious and potentially fatal in wizards and witches. Symptoms are similar to Muggle illnesses like smallpox and chickenpox, but causes a lasting greenish tinge.
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Greyscale
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Game of Thrones
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Contracted by touch. Slowly turns the skin (patches in children and the entire body in adults) gray and stone-like. Drives its adult victims insane.
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The Great Plague
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The Lord of the Rings
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Highly fatal, especially for the inhabitants of Gondor and the North. Based on the Black Death.
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Chimera
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Mission: Impossible 2
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A 20-hour dormancy period before mass destruction of the victim's red blood cells. Bellerophon can only save the victim if used within that window.
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ALZ-112, ALZ-113, "Simian Flu"
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Planet of the Apes (reboot) series
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San Francisco's Gen-sys Laboratories designed it to cure Alzheimer's. ALZ-112 increased intelligence in apes and cured humans...temporarily. ALZ-113 became airborne and wiped out 499 in 500 humans.
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The Flare
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The Maze Runner
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Highly-contagious virus. Infects the brain of hosts, who become crazed cannibals called Cranks. Less than 1%, the Munies, is immune. Rich people slow symptoms with illegal drug The Bliss.
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TS-19
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The Walking Dead
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Presumably viral. Short 16-hour incubation. Symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, confusion, hallucinations, paralysis, and death. Finally, the victim wakes, exhibiting zombie-like behavior. The disease leads to society's collapse.
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Captain Trips
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The Stand
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AKA 'superflu'. A biological weapon codenamed Blue. Causes a lethally high fever. Highly contagious. As the body fights the disease, it mutates into different strains of flu, preventing immunity.
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Inferno Virus
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Inferno
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Terrorist group The Consortium released it to kill off half of humanity. Its creator, Bertrand Zobrist, planned to make it waterborne, but changed it to airborne to infect faster.
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Vampiris
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I Am Legend
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Rod-shaped bacterium. Causes photosensitivity, hysterical blindness near mirrors, and overdevelopment of canine teeth. Victims feed on blood. Can be treated, but not cured, with a fusion inhibitor and dehydrated blood.
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Rage (Human Cortico-Deficiency Virus)
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28 Days Later
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Easily transmissible through any bodily fluid (except apparently semen), it causes extreme aggression 10-30 seconds after being infected. A crowd of hundreds could be infected by a single individual in minutes.
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Solanum Virus
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World War Z
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First, the virus destroys the brain. 16 hours later, the victim wakes in a mindless rage with an unquenchable hunger for human flesh.
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Andromeda
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The Andromeda Strain
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A rapidly mutating alien pathogen that (in its most virulent form) causes near-instantaneous blood-clotting.
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DX
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The Lost World
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An unknown prion dubbed "DX" by scientists on Isla Sorna. It is similar to mad cow disease and was the result of feeding ground-up sheep to carnivorous dinosaurs.
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Motaba
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Outbreak
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A deadly, virulent Ebola-like virus from the jungles of Zaire, which infects a California town.
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Malignalitaloptereosis
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The Sword in the Stone
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It causes the victim to break out in spots, followed by hot and cold flashes, then violent sneezing. During the wizard's duel, Merlin had transformed himself into the germ that caused this disease and infected Madam Mim with it, causing her to become sick and lose the duel.
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Shame
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Mentioned as being "still a terminal disease in some parts of the Galaxy," it is common on Betelgeuse 5. It killed the father of Ford Prefect when he was so ashamed that Ford could not say his birth name "Ix", and this embarrassed Ford, who was mocked at school.
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Hawaiian Cat Flu
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Garfield
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A rare disease only contracted by cats. Its symptoms include a "voracious" appetite, a craving for Hawaiian food, listlessness, crankiness, and a compulsion to wear Hawaiian shirts and hula dance.
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NRS and UBT
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Demolition Man
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2 STD epidemics that occurred during the 36 years Spartan was incarcerated via cybergenics. Presumably as bad as HIV, they made sex, kissing, and even touching illegal and feared.
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Brain Cloud
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Joe vs. the Volcano
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Has no symptoms...besides a quick and painless death in about 6 months. Possibly made up by the doctor, given how it relates to the plot of the movie (convincing a man to sacrifice himself to gods).
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Mad Zombie Disease
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Zombieland
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Causes people, upon receiving a bite from an infected, to become zombies. A mutation of Mad Cow Disease, which became Mad Human Disease, and then mutated again.
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Spattergroit
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Harry Potter series
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The skin breaks out in purple pustules, and speech is impossible "once the fungus has spread to your uvula." The only cure, says the portrait of a Healer in St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries, is to bind the liver of a toad around the victim's throat and stand nude in a barrel of eel's eyes under a full moon.
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