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But according to multiple SEAL sources , the incident did in fact occur. Szymanski, according to these sources, was directed by Moore to make the episode disappear. Although Blue Squadron had avoided criminal charges, their battlefield conduct continued to set off alarms within the command. Within two weeks of the apparent beheading, Moore deployed to Afghanistan. That was the only punishment. The Intercept is withholding the name of the operator, who believed he was following an order. He remains on active duty and has not responded to requests for comment.

One of the former SEAL Team 6 leaders, who investigated several Blue Squadron incidents, including the mutilation of bodies, said he repeatedly asked the operators why they felt the need to commit such acts. The Intercept submitted three pages of questions to both Adm. Vasely, who currently runs the operations divisions of JSOC. Both declined to comment. Moore did not respond to requests for comment. Peter Vasely with members of Blue Squadron in Afghanistan.

Britt Slabinski, left, and Capt. In , when Slabinski was up for a promotion at the command, SEAL Team 6 leaders conducted two internal inquiries before making a decision. Almost immediately, the issue that received the most scrutiny was the December attempted beheading. According to two former SEALs, Slabinski told his teammates and superiors that his remark about wanting a head was figurative and not a literal order. By then, there was no question about whether the attempted beheading had occurred; the question was why.

The only issue was, was his order real, or just talk? He said it and one of his operators did it because he believed he was following an order. Ten officers and master chiefs voted unanimously against allowing Slabinski to return to the command. Evidence was presented that Slabinski gave an order to shoot all the men they encountered during another raid, whether or not they were armed.

According to the New York Times, Afghans accused Blue Squadron of killing civilians during that operation, but a subsequent military investigation determined that all those killed had been armed and hostile. Slabinski has not responded to multiple queries and requests for comment, though he did deny to the New York Times in that he gave the illegal pre-mission guidance to kill all males.

You will step over the line and you start dehumanizing people. And it takes the team, it takes individuals to pull you back. And part of that was getting rid of Britt Slabinski. Two other SEAL Team 6 leaders with a combined 35 years at the command said the removal of Slabinski and the failure to pursue official punishment was an indictment of the senior officers — they had failed one of their most basic duties, to hold themselves and others accountable for wrongdoing. When Szymanski, who was then commanding officer of all regular East Coast-based SEAL teams, heard that Slabinski had been rejected by Team 6, he requested him as his senior enlisted adviser.

The request was approved and Slabinski was promoted. Slabinski retired from the military in after 25 years in the Navy. The operator accused of the attempted beheading has experienced difficulties as a result of his service. Last year, the command became concerned about his psychological condition, determining that he was medically unfit to deploy again.

Here, commanders returning from a deployment leave their hard drives with technicians who transfer PowerPoints, after-actions reports, and photos of each operation a squadron conducted abroad. The database contains photographs of persons killed by SEAL operators during their missions and other mission documentation.

Some of those photographs, especially those taken of casualties from through , show deceased enemy combatants with their skulls split open by a rifle or pistol round at the upper forehead, exposing their brain matter. The foreign fighters who suffered these V-shaped wounds were either killed in battle and later shot at close range or finished off with a security round while dying.

The canoeing photos are dramatic documentary evidence of the extreme and unnecessary violence that began to occur during multiple high-risk, exhausting, and traumatizing tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. The former SEAL Team 6 leader said that he first noticed canoeing in , and that it does occur accidentally on the battlefield, but rarely. Canoeing was just one of several acts of mutilation frequently carried out by SEALs. Two different sources said that over a six-year period — roughly through — battlefield reports and accounts of atrocities, particularly mutilations and taking of trophies, were ignored by SEAL Team 6 leadership.

One source said his superiors repeatedly refused to address the issue. The lack of battlefield discipline was not limited to a single squadron. Unlawful violence, aberrations from rules of engagement, mutilations, and disrespect of enemy casualties, actions that had been isolated at the beginning of the Afghan war, had by this point spread throughout SEAL Team 6. Operators and officers prided themselves on their ability to kill only those who were deemed a threat. But even that rule evolved over time. SEALs were given wide berth as long as they could explain why they made the decision to shoot an unarmed person.

In , for example, a Gold Squadron sniper was pushed out of the unit after he killed three unarmed people — including a child — in at least two different operations. He was allowed to return to the regular SEAL teams. No investigation into an unjustified killing has ever resulted in formal disciplinary action against a member of SEAL Team 6. McRaven, left, and Capt. This meant there was less oversight over their missions — and less accountability if things went wrong.

During the pre-dawn raid, a small team from Gold Squadron breached a compound that was home to an insurgent cell that had targeted a U. Inside, they found six militants, four in one room, all sleeping with weapons near their beds. Despite orders to detain the men, the SEALs killed all six. In the room with four of the suspected insurgents, four SEALs counted down and canoed each sleeping man with a shot to the forehead. One of their teammates killed the other two targets in another room. All six were photographed. The CIA team on the operation was angry because they had lost an opportunity to interrogate the suspected militants.

Smethers threatened to expose the SEALs for what he believed was a series of war crimes; the canoeing incident was just one of several operations in which Smethers alleged that Gold Squadron operators violated the laws of war. Gold Squadron was set to redeploy to the U. In exchange, Smethers, who never filed an official allegation or complaint, was sent back to the U.

Yes, we — they committed war crimes. It happens in war. War is an adrenaline rush. After three or four deployments in, you need more to get that stimulation. We killed bad guys. And afterwards, we added the psychological warfare. In the early s, a group of seasoned enlisted SEAL Team 6 operators kicked McRaven off a training exercise, relieving him of his already tenuous command for being too rule-bound. McRaven was subsequently transferred from the unit.

Just eight months after taking over JSOC, after a series of complaints from the Afghan government over special operations night raids and civilian deaths, McRaven sought to pull Team 6 back from its overly aggressive stance. Although the stoppage was not limited to the SEALs, his former unit pushed back against a new set of operational guidelines. The operators were unhappy about the new restriction, arguing that call outs gave up the tactical advantage of surprise. Previously, the command had required only a frontal shot and a profile of each dead militant.

This directive had one primary purpose: The photos and other review documents could be shared with local officials to justify operations. But the directive had another benefit. With more extensive photographic documentation, SEAL operators had less time to fire unnecessary rounds into the dead, and they had to use the photos to explain why they fired their weapon.

As a result, photographs of canoed enemy fighters virtually ceased to appear in after-action reports. The first and best-known was the rescue of Capt. Red Squadron snipers killed three pirates who were holding Phillips in a lifeboat. McRaven, who was informed of the killings only after he knew Phillips was safe, was incensed. The SEALs were suspected of taking the money. Two of these sources told me that the British government informed SEAL Team 6 mission planners that Norgrove worked for the spy agency, and that they had been tracking her movements since the abduction.

During a late-night raid at a northern Kunar compound, Silver Squadron operators killed several captors but accidentally killed Norgrove when an inexperienced SEAL threw a fragment grenade at one of the captors. One of the two SEALs who knew about the grenade eventually told his team leader, who then failed to inform his commanders until he was confronted the next day. McRaven, who did not respond to requests for comment, also held a meeting with a large group of senior officers under his command and said that SEAL Team 6 had effectively made lying to protect a teammate an honorable course of action, according to a person who attended the meeting.

But this started in and continued through the wars. The failure of SEAL Team 6 to hold itself accountable for battlefield atrocities has resulted in lasting consequences for operators at the command. This is multiple times on each deployment. And though the gruesome and illegal practice has never been previously reported, at least one canoeing incident is quite well known, if hidden in plain sight. That operator, known as Red inside the unit, is still an active-duty member of SEAL Team 6 and has never been publicly identified. He then stood above the now indisputably dead man and canoed him, firing a round into his forehead and splitting open the top of his skull, exposing his brain.

I could see his brains spilling out over his face. The story of the bin Laden raid has been told and retold, but crucial details have never been made public. According to multiple sources, both of their accounts contain multiple self-serving falsehoods. The texture of those accounts reveals much about what went wrong with the most celebrated special operations command in the U.

The falsehoods, both significant and slight, demonstrate that even when conducting the most important missions, SEAL Team 6 was unable to rise above the culture of deceit, personal enrichment, and self-aggrandizement that has corrupted a fighting unit legendary for its discipline and code of honor. Air Photo by Force Technical Sgt. They each entered Red Squadron at the same time, and were both recipients of the Winkler hatchets handed out by Wyman Howard. They were both talented and competitive, and they were determined to profit from their experiences as SEALs.

In the end, their inclusion in the bin Laden raid and their roles defined where they fit in: The 23 SEAL Team 6 operators assigned to the mission prepared constantly for the entire month of April , practicing on two different full-scale mock-ups of the bin Laden compound. Tactically, there was little about the upcoming raid that was complex.

Unlike the hundreds of other assaults SEAL Team 6 had carried out in Iraq and Afghanistan, in which the operators would plan and carry out a raid within a matter of hours, this time they had weeks to prepare. They had detailed plans of the Abbottabad compound provided by the CIA and knew where they could expect to find bin Laden. The pilot noted that the two mock-up compounds had chain link fences around the buildings, allowing the air to disperse, while the real compound had thick concrete walls. They have begun to tell more lies so that they might continue with the perpetration of their crimes.

May they be accursed. Do not believe them! How can you lay siege to a whole country?

Who is really under siege now? Baghdad cannot be besieged. Al-Nasiriyah cannot be besieged. Basra cannot be besieged. The whole word can hear the warning sirens. This criminal sitting in the White House is a pathetic criminal and his Defense Minister deserves to be beaten. These criminals lie to the world because they are criminals by nature and conditioning.

They consider this a military site! You will forever be shamed! You have ruined the reputation of the American people in the most terrible way! And we will destroy you! They are trapped near Basra. They are trapped near Nasiriyah. They are trapped near Najaf.

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They are trapped everywhere. I tell you this. It is all a lie. It is a hollywood movie. You do not believe them. They are the ones who will find themselves under siege. Therefore, in reality whatever this miserable Rumsfeld has been saying, he was talking about his own forces.

Now even the American command is under siege. They are out of Saddam International Airport. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted. Be assured, Baghdad is safe, protected. You go and see how we have ousted them from this city. They are cying outside and waiting to receive bullets. They will be killed shortly.

From what I glimpsed, these gardens with rows of palm trees on the side, which you saw in the images, are located in the south of Abu Ghreib, where we have surrounded the Americans and British. When told coalition troops occupied Baghdad airport - " Now that's just silly! There are NO Americans there. I will take you there and show you. God willing, I will provide you with more information.

I swear by God, I swear by God, those who are staying in Washington and London have thrown these mercenaries in a crematorium. The Americans are relying on what I called yesterday a desperate and stupid method. The force that was in the airport, this force was destroyed. They are showing any old pictures of buildings.

They even went into the VIP section of the airport, just because Saddam Hussein may have sat in such and such a chair or slept in such and such a bed". This will only make it easier for us to defeat them". Where did they bring them from? Do not repeat the lies of liars. Do not become like them. Once again, I blame al-Jazeera before it ascertains what takes place.

Please, make sure of what you say and do not play such a role. I tell you things and I always ask you to verify what I say. I told you yesterday that there was an attack and a retreat at Saddam's airport. Nothing there, nothing at all. There are Iraqi checkpoints.

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This is merely a prattle. The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them Wherever they go they will find themselves encircled. This is a very stupid lie they are telling their soldiers, what they are facing is a definite death. The cruise missiles do not frighten anyone.

We are catching them like fish in a river. I mean here that over the past two days we managed to shoot down missiles before they hit their target. We want to tell him that we have not executed anybody. They are either killed in battle, most of them get killed because they are cowards anyway, the rest they just get captured.

The American louts fled. Indeed, concerning the fighting waged by the heroes of the Arab Socialist Baath Party yesterday, one amazing thing really is the cowardice of the American soldiers. I remind you that they said that their strategy is based on shock and awe. Those failed ones manufactured a type of container that has an explosive substance, which they drop. They cause a very huge explosion in terms of sound, as if the universe was shaken. After a while, you go out and you don't find anything. You find some nails, screws, pieces of metal, but the important thing here is the sound.

Those failed ones think that through the huge sound explosion, people would be shocked and consequently would collapse and be defeated. They will turn it against the American louts so as to shock them. Wait for surprises, God willing, to see how the US game will fail. They are shocked because of what they have seen. No one received them with roses. They were received with bombs, shoes and bullets. Now, the game has been exposed. Awe will backfire on them. This is the boa snake.

We will extend it further and cut it the appropriate way. I am here now to tell you, we do not have any scud missiles and I don't know why they were fired into Kuwait. I will mention something that will make the picture clear for you and help you to understand what took place at Saddam International Airport. Most of you probably saw the American movie "Wag the Dog". I hope you remember it. Some of their acts that took place at dawn yesterday and today are similar to what happened in "Wag the Dog". If we succeed in keeping them isolated on that island, and we are determined to do so, we might let them taste a second mini Dien Bien Phu tonight.

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A genetically engineered recombinant virus made from the nuclear polyhedrosis virus , the rhinovirus , and smallpox. It causes nightmares, fever, chills, runny nose, encephalitis brain swelling , and herpes -like boils in the mouth and genitals, followed by a short period of aggression and autocannibalism preceding death. Used as a bioterror weapon.

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An echolalia -like disease in which a specific pronunciation of a certain word—the "wormword"—leads to fatally degenerative cognitive ability as a result of an encephalopathy. Buscard's Murrain is infectious, as the afflicted desire to hear others pronounce the wormword. Captain Trips "Superflu", "tube neck", and "project blue". Stand The Stand by Stephen King. A deadly, flu -based virus. Created as a biological weapon codenamed Blue. Causes a lethally high fever and is highly contagious.

It is deadly because as the body fights off the disease, it mutates into different strains of influenza, making immunity next to impossible. Star Wars Republic Commando: Hard Contact by Karen Traviss. A nanovirus developed by the Confederacy of Independent Systems designed specifically to kill the clones of Jango Fett. Its creator, Ovolot Qail Uthan, is captured by Republic Commandos before her research is complete, however. In later books in the series, it is revealed though not to any of the main characters, but to the reader through both Palpatine's and Dr.

Uthan's private journals , Chancellor Palpatine secretly chooses not to completely destroy all evidence or research of the virus, but rather opts to hold onto it as a back-up plan, should the clone army ever be turned against him. The Legend of Deathwalker by David Gemmell. A mutating disease that often starts with pain and sensitivity in the victims nipples, then forms a temporary tumor in the brain as it feeds upon the genetic material of the brain cells, sapping away the victims critical thinking skills and intelligence, once it reaches its critical density, the tumor disbands into the bloodstream, the virus going into a form of hibernation, leaving its victim in a state of near absolute uselessness.

Once the virus detects that it has entered a new host due to differences in protein markers of the victims cells, the process begins again. A term used by children in the United States, with varied meaning. The Underland Chronicles by Suzanne Collins. A disease created by Doctor Neveeve in the city of Regalia.

She gave the disease to fleas, which instead of getting infected, spread the disease around warmblooded creatures, including people. Symptoms include purple blemishes, coughing, choking, and a swelled tongue. The cure was originally believed to be a plant named starshade, though the true cure was made in Regalia. Dar-kosis is a virulent, horrible, wasting disease and is similar in many ways to leprosy.

The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare. Demon pox, also known as astriola, is a rare but debilitating disease that affects Shadowhunters and is caused by sexual contact with demons. Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card. A quasi-conscious self-modifying organism capable of infecting any form of life.

In the context of the book, this refers to the Descolada virus's effects: A sentient virus and a member of the Sinestro Corps. It could create non-sentient duplicates of itself creating a plague capable of killing infected victims within minutes, and can also destroy these duplicates, leaving no trace of their presence.

Among the victims of its plague was Kyle Rayner 's mother. Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman. A disorder 'afflicting those who habitually and pathologically catalogue and construct diseases. The Harry Potter Series by J. Dragon pox is a potentially fatal contagious disease that occurs in wizards and witches. Its symptoms are presumably similar to Muggle illnesses like smallpox and chicken pox.

However, in addition to leaving the victim's skin pockmarked, dragon pox causes a lasting greenish tinge. Simpler cases present with a green-and-purple rash between the toes and sparks coming out of the nostrils when the patient sneezes. Elderly patients are apparently more susceptible to dragon pox than younger ones. Gunhilda of Gorsemoor developed a cure for dragon pox, but the disease has not been completely eradicated, as is evidenced by the fact that it is still treated by the Magical Bugs ward at St.

Salamandastron by Brian Jacques. A deadly disease causing weakness, hot flashes, chills, and dizziness. The victim is usually bedridden until eventual death. The only known cure are Flowers of Icetor boiled in spring water. The Lost World by Michael Crichton. 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. DX increased the mortality rate of newborn dinosaurs and is eventually fatal to adult dinosaurs. The prion initially infected carnivorous dinosaurs such as velociraptors and procompsognathus , which would then spread the disease to herbivores such as apatosaurus , and the apatosaur carcasses would be eaten by compys, which would then spread the disease to other carcasses, and the cycle would repeat.

Ian Malcolm said at the end of the novel that, because of the imbalance of carnivores and herbivores due to DX, the dinosaurs were doomed to die out. Also known as "the Clench", due to the victims clenching their stomachs, Ebola Gulf is an evolved form of the ebola virus created by the terrorist mastermind Ra's al Ghul after he consulted the Wheel of Plagues. A viral infection that infects extremely fast and only infects those that produce sex hormones i.

It was released by the President of the United States of America to start the world over, killing almost all adults within 2 weeks. As a result, children were left to fend for themselves, most of whom failed. Once all the targets of the virus were gone, it died out. A highly contagious virus that infects the brain of its host, turning them into crazed blood-thirsty cannibals essentially zombies which are called Cranks. There is no cure for The Flare, but many wealthy people slow down the onslaught of the symptoms with an illegal drug called The Bliss, which slows down their brain activity.

It was released by the governments of the world to help control overpopulation after the Sun Flares, but it eventually killed most of the people in the world. Heir of Mistmantle by M. Disease caused from drinking poisoned water. Animals who have it will have pain, blurry sight and some will eventually die. Disease created from the noxious gas from the defeated dragon Yune's stomach.

It comes on with no warning and is not contagious. There are three stages of the disease. The first stage is the weakness, and it can last anywhere from a week to six months. The second stage is the sleeping, and it always lasts nine days. The last stage is fever, and it always lasts three days. At the end of the fever stage, the victim will die. The only cure is water sent down from the fairies' Mount Ziriat.

The cure will only be discovered when cowards find courage and rain falls over all Bamarre. The Lord of the Rings by J. A mysterious disease which swept down through every single kingdom of Middle-earth during the mid s of the Third Age of the Sun. The Plague's origins are unknown except it was possibly contracted from the Corsairs who attacked Gondor in Third Age , two years before the Plague occurred. A Song of Ice and Fire. Greyscale is a typically nonfatal disease akin to leprosy. It is first introduced in Stannis Baratheon's daughter Shireen.

When it infects children, greyscale generally leaves children malformed and disabled but alive. However, in A Dance with Dragons , it is revealed to be generally fatal to adults. The disease is contracted by touch and slowly turns the skin small patches in children and the entire body in adults of the victim to into a gray, stone-like form.

It is said that the disease also drives its adult victims insane.

Korean, Japanese, and Chinese pop band and manga fandoms. It can also be cured by the reciprocation of the victim's feelings. Garfield by Jim Davis. A rare disease only contracted by cats. Symptoms include a "voracious" appetite, a craving for Hawaiian food, listlessness, crankiness, and a compulsion to wear Hawaiian shirts and hula dance. Darwin's Radio by Greg Bear. A contagious, sexually transmitted human endogenous retrovirus HERV that causes flu-like symptoms and ultimately causes miscarriage of pregnancies. Though treated as a public health crisis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and World Health Organization , the virus is later revealed to be a mechanism which causes rapid speciation and accelerates evolution.

Harlequin Rex by Owen Marshall. A progressive and fatal neurological disease which causes an re-awakening of primordial senses and behaviors, set in near-future Earth. Created by the living star Solaris , this plague was caused by nanomachines. It acted like both a biological virus and a computer virus, and could be spread to each type of victim by the other type. It was capable of wiping out humanity in twenty-four hours. The hero Spider Jerusalem has I-Pollen Degenerative Disorder, a disease he gained as a result of coming into contact with Information Pollen, pollen used to transmit information.

It is comparable to Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. Inferno by Dan Brown. An airborne virus which incubated in water. It was released by the terrorist group the Consortium to kill off half of humanity and reproduce with only a third of ten individuals who were immune. The virus was modeled on the Black Death. Originally, its creator, Bertrand Zobrist, planned to have it as a waterborne virus, but changed it to airborne because it could infect faster. The Inferno virus can infect a human through damp air, and then it renders humans infertile.

The plan was for the infected to die off and humanity to be rendered extinct. Feed by Mira Grant. A spontaneous combination of two man-made viruses that exists in a 'reservoir condition' state without ill effects until the host's death, when any host over approximately 40 pounds undergoes virus amplification and becomes a zombie. The Krytos virus was a deadly and highly contagious virus that only attacked non-human species. It could spread via a number of avenues, including by water supplies and by air. The virus often killed its host in less than two weeks, resulting in a painful death.

A disease that targets only mutants , causing genetic and biological degradation and eventual death; shortly before death, the virus' effects will cause a violent, uncontrolled flare-up of the victim's superhuman abilities. One strain of it can also infect humans, as it did to Moria McTaggart. The Life-eater virus is a form of necrotizing fasciitis that causes all biological matter to break down into its component parts, releasing toxic, flammable gas that can be ignited with a single explosion. The virus eats itself when there is nothing else to attack.

It is quite effective against Tyrranids. In the short-story anthology Planetkill , an updated strain goes after the soul , turning the population into zombies, created by a Techpriest inhabited by a daemonic Unclean One. A mostly psychosomatic disease that can only be contracted by the empress of the Kuja Tribe if she falls in love with a man and denies the feeling.

It causes weakness, pain, and eventually death from declining health. The only known cure is for the victim to accept the emotions and pursue the object of her desire. This disease has killed many previous empresses, and is currently a threat to Boa Hancock, who pursues Monkey D. Luffy to avoid the symptoms. A super-evolved smallpox virus with intelligence and sentience; it is a member of the Green Lantern Corps which played a pivotal role in defeating Despotellis. The general term for the condition that causes a human to transform into a werewolf.

Regarded as a curse or the result of evil magic in folklore , if is often regarded as an infectious disease spread by other werewolves in modern werewolf fiction.

Latent in everyone and triggered upon pregnancy, it causes rapid progressive brain degeneration and is invariably fatal to both mother and child. Possibly a strain of JC virus. Dark Benediction by Walter Miller Jr. A pathogen causing rapid nervous system evolution and development of new sensory organs, which causes synesthetic psychosis in unprepared hosts.

Sent to Earth by an alien race living in symbiosis with it, in the hopes of furthering other races' advance. Designed for controlled delivery, it is turned into a plague by a curious retriever's cutting the vessel with an hacksaw. The Omega Days novels: This is actually two viruses: The first, of unknown origin but seems to be in all humans, causes them to reanimate into zombies once they die. The second is carried in the body fluids, especially in the saliva, of the "drifters", or walking dead. When they bite a living human, that person contracts the second disease and develops a severe fever, resulting in coma and then death The drifters have rudimentary brain function, allowing them to walk, crawl, or run toward their prey.

They have foggy white eyes, can only moan with hunger, have enhanced hearing and sense of smell, and can only be stopped by piercing the brain -- when they drop dead, again. A bite from a drifter is always fatal, but their body fluids in the eyes or mouth of a living person can sometimes cause a survivable "burn" which leaves the living person with an immunity to the second virus future bites do not kill them. There are a few rare drifters that experienced "burn" but died anyway -- leaving them as a reddish-skinned intelligent zombie.

This is a cholera-like disease transmitted through water. It causes diarrhea and intestinal bleeding, which soon lead to death. It is common during wars. This plague, originally coming from the northern Indian kingdoms in La Guajira Colombia , is identified by the symptoms of wide-open, glowing eyes like those of a cat, and the impossibility of sleeping. Those infected in the novel consisting of the entire town of Macondo feel no tiredness or sleepiness whatsoever and hence can work all day and night.

However, as time advances, those infected begin to lose all their memories and knowledge of the world ; ultimately leaving them in a state in which they have forgotten the names and uses of all things and their own identities. Cell by Stephen King. A powerful virus which lies dormant inside mobile phones and which requires a powerful signal to set off. The exact unleashers are unknown, but are implied to be a terrorist group due to numerous theories in the novel.

The virus is implied to have been released just after September 11th , and lain dormant in cell phones ever since. Once the right signal is transmitted and leaked into incoming phone calls, the caller's brain cells immediately disintegrate and they are unable to recognize friend from foe; they are even unable to recognize other people infected with the virus. Inevitably, the infected callers become psychotic and start killing each other, the chaos of which lasts approximately two days before the infected callers have become "stable" enough to cooperate and recognize each other.

A fictional disease invented by Roald Dahl 's friend Thwaites during their schooldays in Llandaff. Thwaites made this up to amuse Roald and the other friends, but he says his dad told him about the disease, which is apparently contracted from eating liquorice bootlaces. Thwaites says that the bootlaces actually have rat's blood rather than licquorice, and they are done this way by rat-catchers bringing their rats to the sweet factory where they pound the rats into a paste, then mash it up to form licquorice bootlaces. Thwaites told Roald and his friends never to eat them, because if they did, a rat's tail would burst out of their buttocks and their teeth would turn into fangs.

Only Roald and his friends saw the joke; Thwaites took it with deadpan humour. Victims bleed from their pores before eventually dying. Most likely a viral hemorrhagic fever. Dreamcatcher by Stephen King. An alien parasitoid macrovirus. The adult aliens resemble deformed potato beings with legs, while the younger aliens—nicknamed "shit-weasels" because they can be created in a host organism's stomach and escape by eating their host's body between the stomach and anus — are legless, smaller versions of the adult alien.

Both adult and young aliens have a mouth consisting of a slit on the underside of the head that goes down the length of the worm. The lips separate to reveal hundreds of teeth that can bite through steel. A heredity disease passed down by generation-to-generation in the Higashikata family. The Disease slowly changes person into rock, starting at the age of ten. There is no known medical cure for the disease.

Sakutia, also known as Green Fever, is an extremely rare lethal viral disease found primarily in the African region of Lamumba. The virus attaches itself to a victim's DNA, enabling the host body to instinctively rewrite their own genetic code. Typically, a host relies upon primitive instinct when affecting such a change, rendering them capable of shapeshifting into a wide variety of forms usually animals.

Sakutia victims suffer from one other noticeable side effect is that their hair and skin turn permanently green in hue. Disease which feeds on the salt in its host's body. The host eventually loses their humanity and becomes violently hungry, seeking the salty blood of others. The plague is spread by its victim's bites.

This novella, also known as the Scarlet Death , is a work of post-apocalyptic fiction treating the world after civilization has been destroyed by this fictional disease. Genetic diseases of people and animals in the postapocalyptic setting of Always Coming Home , caused by the leftover chemical and radiation pollution. Vedet involves personality disorders and dementia; sevai usually leads to blindness and other sensory loss, along with degeneration of muscle control. Both diseases are painful, crippling, incurable, and fatal. Severity of onset and the length of the course of the illness varied: Mentioned as being "still a terminal disease in some parts of the Galaxy," this disease seems rife amongst the population of Betelgeuse 5, the fifth planet of the sun Betelgeuse.

It killed off the father of Ford Prefect when he was so ashamed that Ford could not say his birth name, "Ix", and this embarrassed Ford and resulted in him being mocked during school. Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy. A genetically modified version of Ebola created to help a group of eco-terrorists in annihilating mankind. Death Troopers , Red Harvest. A virus artificially created by the Sith Lord Darth Drear thousands of years ago in order to achieve immortality.

Centuries later, Darth Scabrous successfully completed Drear's unfinished work, but accidentally modified it into a semi-sentient hive mind that creates zombies. The Sith academy on Odacin-Fauster was wiped out by the plague. Thousands of years later, Darth Vader commissioned the Empire 's bioweapons division to recreate the virus. Upon completion, the virus was loaded onto the Star Destroyer Vector for transport to a testing site.

En route, the tanks leaked and the Destroyer's crew was zombified. The virus is characterized by grey goo. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. A dangerous drug which is both a computer virus capable of infecting the brains of unwary hackers in the Metaverse and a mind-altering virus distributed by a network of Pentecostal churches via its infrastructure and belief system.

Both forms cause glossolalia , and the computer virus form appears as a snowy pattern of pixels. A virus which has existed since the beginning of human history, which is highly contagious through bodily fluids such as blood. Solanum symptoms include dementia , paralysis in the extremities, and discoloration of the wound, which increase as the virus replicates itself. The virus is centered on the brain, and destroys the cells of the brain and replaces them with the virus. In doing so, the infected victims are declared clinically dead. The virus takes around sixteen hours to replicate, although it varies from individual to individual.

Once Solanum has fully replicated, the victim awakes from the coma, with an unquenchable desire for human flesh. The victim also exhibits typical zombie-like behavior such as psychotic behavior and mindless rage, and can only be killed by destruction of the brain. Alisa Selezneva books by Kir Bulychov. A lethal, extremely contagious virus responsible for destroying numerous inhabited planets.

Difficult to combat due to the virus being very good in mimicry, as well as capable of forming a hive mind which could direct its own mutations. Earth had narrowly averted destruction in the midst Century thanks to the ship carrying two infected being quarantined on Pluto. A disease that covers the victim in purple pustules and renders them unable to speak. It may be a type of fungus, as Ron Weasley says that the effect of being unable to speak occurs "once the fungus has spread to your uvula". The only known cure, according to 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. The portrait said that he believed Ron had this disease, due to the " unsightly blemishes " on his face. Ron would later use this disease in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as an excuse as to why he was unable to return to Hogwarts , when in actuality he and his friends were out searching for Lord Voldemort 's Horcruxes. Not a human disease, but one which affects humans and other inhabitants of the Edge by attacking the rocks of the flight ships which is the primary means of transport and communication on the Edge.

As the flight ships are carried aloft by the rocks, this puts an end to business and trade, resulting in a brief societal collapse followed by a gradual rebuilding of society when the Edge's inhabitants become accustomed to life with Stone-sickness. Symptoms of infected flight rocks include a brief scar, followed by an open wound and a gaping hole as the rock dissolves. Eventually the sky ship drops clean out of the sky. Many theories abound on the origin of Stone-sickness.

Some people blame the gods. Others blame the Mother Storm, the mysterious meteorological creator of the Edge. Some say that the sky pirate captain Cloud Wolf who perished in the Mother Storm somehow infected her and the Stone-sickness is a result of his pestilence.

It is only at the end of the series that it is revealed the Gloamglozer created the disease and it had been incubating inside the Stone Gardens ever since he fled the city of Sanctaphrax almost a century before the sickness. Apparently it can only be cured and prevented by lima beans. A genetically engineered version of the smallpox virus which Iraq made in the Gulf War. Herod Sayle used the disease in his plans for vengeance. He genetically modified it so it would kill whoever it infected immediately.

Fortunately, the plan was stopped by Alex and the virus was taken and quarantined by MI6. Hollows series by Kim Harrison. The result of genetic engineering, the T4 Angel Virus was spread by infected tomatoes. It wiped out a large percentage of humanity, along with the elves and several other species which had been secretly coexisting. Other species unaffected by the virus, such as witches, vampires, and werewolves, soon equaled humanity's depleted numbers and began living openly. Tomatoes are still feared and shunned by humans throughout the series. Black Hole by Charles Burns.

Also known as the "bug. Seems to affect only teenagers. A presumably viral disease of unknown origin. When a human is infected by it, the disease will infect all cells, eventually resulting in the clinical death of the host. The symptoms that occur before the victim's clinical death, include fever , headache , fatigue , confusion , hallucinations and paralysis.

The disease has a very short incubation period of around 16 hours. After the victim's clinical death, the host will be revitalized and will wake up exhibiting zombie -like behavior. However the disease will only activate lower brain function, mostly those controlled by the brain-stem, where feeding and motor functions are controlled. The host becomes a violent mindless cannibal , and can infect other people by biting.

The disease leads to society's collapse and results in a world stricken by a zombie apocalypse. The transmission of TS has been variable and inconsistent in the media: A person that dies of asphyxiation will become reanimated by the virus, implying an airborne capability, yet it doesn't affect living humans. A pregnant woman that recently gives birth to a child will most likely succumb to the virus due to less-than-sanitary conditions and a weakened immune system. A mysterious, highly infectious disease that moves quickly through a group and kills its host. The only known cure for this unnamed disease was developed by the doctor, Shukaido, who succumbed to the disease soon after developing the cure.

The last known victim of this plague was Shion. I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. A bacillus rod-shaped bacterium that causes photosensitivity, hysterical blindness near mirrors, overdevelopment of canine teeth, and production of a bulletproof adhesive. Victims feed on blood. While in the body, it is anaerobic, and causes the victim to exhibit zombie-like behavior. Outside the body, it sporulates into dust. If an infected person is cut deep enough, the bacteria turns them into powder. Can be treated, but not cured, with a pill containing a fusion inhibitor and dehydrated blood.

An extraterrestrial infectious particle found in a lunar rock sample and within a fantastically well-preserved tyrannosaur fossil in the New Mexico desert. It is later revealed that the organism came to Earth via the Chicxulub asteroid which wiped out the dinosaurs. The particle, which was named for its resemblance to the symbol of Venus and femininity, causes rapid mitosis and apparent cellular differentiation in its host. The Night Parade by Ronald Malfi.

An inexplicable virus with symptoms of delusions, hallucinations, paranoia, and ultimately death, which affects humans and birds and brings the world close to the brink of extinction while allowing insects to overpopulate. The illness is named after the first few cases, where the infected, lost in daydream-like hallucinations, wandered into traffic. A mysterious epidemic of sudden blindness affecting virtually all humanity, leading to society's collapse. So-called because victims see nothing but a white glare.

Not to be confused with the White Blindness in Watership Down which is a name the rabbits use for the real illness Myxomatosis which affects rabbits causing blindness and death. It is a highly virulent killer bacterium. Its method of infection was very complex and it would mix in with other microorganisms and multiply.

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It could be transmitted via air, blood, mouth, or skin contact. An incurable form of leprosy , killing people older than A genetically engineered virus that kills only women. Released only on Irish , English , and Libyan populace. Burning Bright by Melissa Scott. Simple organ transplants inevitably fail, due to the mechanisms by which the disease alters the lung tissue, slowly dissolving it into a thick white mucus, so that the patient drowns in body fluids even as the lungs themselves stop working. It has been theorized that the process is guided by the victim's own subconscious, influenced by the person's desires or fears.

In this way, the virus works as a modern Aladdin's Lamp. The transformation is extremely individual, no two persons are affected in exactly the same way. These cases are called black queens. From the survivors, 9 out of 10 are changed for the worse, becoming monstrous creatures nicknamed jokers. Xenovirus Takis-B, also known as the trump virus, is an artificial organism created by Dr. Tachyon as a possible cure for the wild card virus. Ideally, the trump virus reverses the genetic changes caused by the wild card virus, transforming a wild carder back into a normal person.

The trump virus is only successful in about twenty-four percent of attempts. In other words, it is more likely to kill than cure. The Jokertown Clinic only uses the trump virus as a last resort, in the most severe cases where the victim has nothing to lose. Joe Versus the Volcano. The brain cloud has no symptoms — apart from quickly and painlessly killing in about six months. Possibly made up by the doctor making the diagnosis, given how it relates to the plot of the movie.

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