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Disease is widespread throughout Mundus and beyond. Tamriel has its fair share of diseases, many of them fatal. Diseases can be transmitted through contact with the afflicted or through fighting animals and undead. They can also be transmitted magically or through dart traps. Most common diseases can be cured by magic, blessings or potions. The diseases brought about by the Blight once required special spells or potions to cure, but the few that survived the defeat of Dagoth Ur can now be cured like any common disease. Diseases can be resisted as well as cured; the Argonians are famous for their natural immunity to almost all disease. Certain diseases such as Corprus and Porphyric Hemophilia cannot be resisted.

Ash Woe Blight

Ash Woe Blight is an acute blight disease affecting the victim's will and thought processes. It may be contracted from corprus beasts or other blighted creatures.

Ash-Chancre

Ash-Chancre is an acute blight disease affecting the victim's behavior. It may be contracted from corprus beasts or other blight monsters.

Astral Vapors

A magical disease which circumvents resistance. Symptoms include stunted and damaged magicka reserves. It may be caught from powerful Dread Zombies.

Ataxia

Ataxia is a mild common disease affecting the victim's strength and dexterity. Symptoms include generalized pain, muscle stiffness and paleness. This can affect the victim's ability to pick locks. It may be contracted from slaughterfish, bears, zombies, skeevers and alit. The disease is quite a problem in Cyrodiil.

Black-Heart Blight

Black-Heart Blight is an acute blight disease affecting the victim's strength and endurance. It may be contracted from corprus beasts or other blight monsters. The disease has also spread to zombies, allowing it to live on despite the ending of the Blight in 3E 427.

Blind

Victims of Blind are temporarily blinded. The condition can be cured by resting or by magical means.

Blood Lung

Contracted from rats, victims of Blood Lung suffer from loss of endurance.

Blood Rot

Sometimes fatal, Blood Rot adversely affects the victim's health, personality, and willpower.

Bone Break Fever

Contracted from rats and bears, victims of Bone Break Fever suffer from loss of strength and stamina.

Brain Fever

Brain Fever results in a slow death, as the victim's willpower, health and even personality trickle away, day by day.

Brain Rot

Brain Rot is contracted from zombies and hagravens. Symptoms include loss of strength and magicka.

Brown Rot

Brown Rot is a mild common disease affecting the victim's strength and behavior. Symptoms include necrosis and sleeplessness. It may be contracted from the undead.

Caliron's Curse

Some people have recovered from Caliron's Curse by themselves in a week or two, but their strength, speed, and agility remain stunted. It is best to cure the disease quickly.

Cannibal's Prion

Cannibal's Prion affects the victim's agility and intelligence. It can be contracted from partaking in cannibalism.

Chanthrax Blight

Chanthrax is an acute blight disease affecting the victim's dexterity and mobility. It may be contracted from corprus beasts or other blight monsters. The disease has also spread to boars and zombies, allowing it to live on despite the ending of the Blight in 3E 427.

Chills

Chills is an extremely dangerous common disease affecting the victim's mind and coordination. Symptoms include clumsiness and mental confusion. It may be contracted from the undead.

Cholera

Cholera is one of the deadliest diseases in Tamriel, and is always fatal unless a cure is provided very quickly.

Chrondiasis

Chrondiasis is a magical disease which consumes the victim's intelligence and innate magicka day by day. Unless cured, this will eventually result in death.

Collywobbles

Collywobbles is a serious common disease affecting a victim's strength, endurance, and mobility. Symptoms include uncontrollable shaking and chronic weariness. It may be contracted from shalk and zombies.

Consumption

The willpower, agility, and strength of a victim of Consumption will slowly leave them, until they are cured or they die.

Corprus

Corprus, also known as the Divine Disease, is the most terrible of the ailments associated with the Blight. The infection was created by Dagoth Ur and is spread by contact with a corprus beast or by specific curse. It destroys the mind of the victim and grotesquely deforms the body. Those infected are sent to Tel Fyr to live in the Corprusarium, where they are treated and studied by Divayth Fyr. The disease is completely incurable, although it grants the victim inhuman strength, immunity to all other diseases and immortality. The Nerevarine was infected with corprus, but Divayth Fyr was able to remove the negative effects while still retaining the positive. This fulfilled the Second Trial of the Incarnate. When Fyr used the cure on others with corprus, it merely killed them.

Crimson Plague

The Crimson Plague is a dangerous common disease which spreads easily and acts quickly. Symptoms include weakness and headaches. Infection can result in muteness. The disease, once widespread across Tamriel, was thought to have been stamped out during the Second Era. In 3E 427, the tomb of Gedna Relvel in the ruins of Old Mournhold was unsealed. Relvel, once a powerful sorceress condemned for studying and practicing forbidden magics, had cheated death and become a lich. She then attempted to spread the Crimson Plague throughout the city of Mournhold by infecting rats with the disease. The lich was destroyed by the Nerevarine before the disease could spread to more than a few people.

Dampworm

Dampworm is common disease with serious effects. Symptoms include uncontrollable muscle spasms and twitching. It may be contracted from deer and nix-hounds.

Dementia

Dementia is a hideous disease which slowly robs the victim of their intelligence, willpower, and even personality.

Droops

Droops is a serious common disease that affects a victim's strength. Symptoms include weak and flaccid muscle tissues. It may be contracted from all forms and stages of kwama, as well as sheep.

Feeble Limb

Contracted from rats, victims of Feeble Limb suffer from loss of strength.

Frost Limbs

The disease can be contracted in the wilds around Dawnstar.

Gangrene

A repulsive disease associated with Namira.

Greenspore

Greenspore is a serious common disease affecting a victim's behavior. Symptoms include irritability and violent outbursts, and may include mild dementia. It may be contracted from slaughterfish and zombies.

Grievous Harm

This disease can be contracted in the wilds around Dawnstar.

Helljoint

Helljoint is a mild common disease affecting a victim's mobility and dexterity. Symptoms include persistent irritation and inflammation of joints. It may be contracted from wolves, cliff racers and zombies.

Knahaten Flu

Knahaten Flu (also known as the Knahaten Plague), along with the Thrassian Plague, was one of the deadliest diseases to infect the populace of Tamriel, lasting for 43 years, from the year 2E 560 to 2E 603.

For more information, see the main article.

Leprosy

A repulsive disease associated with Namira. Victims of Leprosy slowly waste away, unless a cure is provided.

Plague

The Plague is a very serious, often fatal disease. Very quickly it will spread through the victim's system. Few who contract it live for more than a few days unless they are cured quickly. The Plague has been known to wipe out entire cities.

Porphyric Hemophilia

Known as the "vampire's disease", Porphyric Hemophilia will become vampirism after a three day incubation period. By itself, the disease affects the victim's stamina, but on the third night of infection the victim will die and become undead. The disease can easily be cured within the three-day period, but vampirism is notoriously hard to cure. The disease is similar to the less-common Sanguinare Vampiris.

Rabies

Rabies is a serious disease which leads to madness and eventual death. It can be contracted from rabid wolves.

Rattles

Rattles is a mild common disease affecting a victim's willpower and dexterity. Symptoms include muscle spasms, listlessness and poor stamina. It may be contracted from nix-hounds, zombies and chaurus.

Red Death

Red Death is a very serious disease which can quickly decimate a victim's endurance and even destroy personality until a cure is given or the victim dies.

Red Fever

An infectious disease. Vexis Velruan once experimented on victims of the Red Fever during his time as a temple healer, attempting to use magic to turn the disease on itself. He was expelled from the temple for trying and failing to find a cure.

Red Plague

A common disease.

Red Rage

Contracted from rats, victims of Red Rage suffer from loss of willpower and strength.

Rockjoint

Rockjoint is an acute common disease affecting a victim's manual dexterity and ability to use melee weapons. Symptoms include painful swelling and immobility of all joints. It may be contracted from wolves, alit, zombies and domesticated guar.

Rotbone

Contracted from Durzogs, Rotbone causes fatigue.

Rust Chancre

Rust chancre is a mild common disease affecting a victim's mobility and behavior. Symptoms include swelling and rash, and painful muscle spasms. It may be contracted from waste rats and zombies.

Sai's Affliction

Sai's Affliction is a disease caused by excessive worship of Sai, the God of Luck. Sufferers of the disease have been abandoned by Sai, and long for the god's presence. They are driven to incessant gambling, seeking proof of the god's favor. This usually leaves the victim in poverty or debt.

Sanguinare Vampiris

Similar in nature to Porphyric Hemophilia, victims of the less-common Sanguinare Vampiris will become vampires after a three day incubation period. By itself, the disease negatively affects the victim's health, but on the third night of infection the victim will die and become undead. The disease can easily be cured within the three-day period, but vampirism is notoriously hard to cure. Sanguinare Vampiris is found in the province of Skyrim.

Sanies Lupinus

Sanies Lupinus is contracted from lycanthropes, and causes drowsiness. However, after a three day incubation period the victim will become a lycanthrope (which type depends on the creature who caused the infection). The disease can easily be cured within the three days, but lycanthropy can only be cured by ritual.

Scalon Blight

Contracted from Scalon, creatures native to the Shivering Isles. Symptoms include loss of endurance and a weakness to frost and fire.

Scalon Fever

Contracted from Scalon, creatures native to the Shivering Isles. Symptoms include loss of endurance and a weakness to frost.

Scalon Sunburn

Contracted from Scalon, creatures native to the Shivering Isles. Symptoms include loss of endurance and a weakness to magical attacks.

Serpiginous Dementia

Serpiginous dementia is a serious common disease affecting the victim's mind and behavior. Symptoms include hallucinations and an itchy and unsightly scaly skin condition resembling snake scales. It may be contracted from netch and zombies.

Shakes

Contracted from rats, victims of Shakes suffer from loss of agility.

Stomach Rot

Stomach Rot is a permanent condition, unless cured, characterized by a slight daily drop in health.

Swamp Fever

Swamp fever is a mild common disease affecting the victim's strength and behavior. It may be contracted from mudcrabs, baliwogs and zombies. The symptoms include high body temperature and delirium, but there are no easily visible signs. The Bitter Coast region of Vvardenfell is infamous for the abundance of Swamp Fever cases.

Swamp Rot

Victims of Swamp Rot will have their willpower, agility, and strength fall daily, until they waste away or are cured.

Thrassian Plague

Thrassian Plague was an artificial disease of mass proportions occurring in the late First Era and the first known historical event to happen after the Dragon Break, during which half of the population of the Iliac Bay, and perhaps even Tamriel, perished because of it. It was created by the Sload in 1E 2260 and received its name after their homeland, the coral kingdom of Thras.

For more information, see the main article.

Ticklebritch

Symptoms of Ticklebritch include a loss of endurance and attractiveness. Contracted from handling dirty equipment.

Troll Thirst

Victims of Troll Thirst are blinded by rage. They must continuously kill to stay alive. The ailment is mercifully short-lived, and the victim will return to normal if they manage to survive. The disease can be contracted in the wilds around Dawnstar.

Tunnel Cough

Tunnel Cough is prevalent among miners. An inconvenience to those who want to remain undetected, as it negatively affects their ability to sneak.

Typhoid Fever

Typhoid Fever is a deadly disease affecting a victim's intelligence, endurance, and health. The condition is permanent, barring a cure or death.

Winter Worn

The disease can be contracted in the wilds around Dawnstar.

Witbane

Witbane is an acute common disease affecting a victim's memory, thought processes and ability to regenerate magicka. Symptoms include loss of memory and disorientation. It may be contracted from dogs, sabre cats and rats.

Witches' Pox

Witches' Pox will slowly deteriorate the victim's strength, endurance, and health until they are cured or dead.

Witchwither

Witchwither is a common disease which paralyzes its victims. It can only be contracted from the curse of a witch.

Wither

Wither is a mild common disease that affects the victim's strength and endurance. Symptoms include loss of energy and shortness of breath. It may be contracted from dreugh, mountain lions and zombies. The disease is prevalent among Sixth House cultists.

Witless Pox

Contracted from rats, victims of Witless Pox suffer from loss of intelligence.

Wizard Fever

Wizard Fever is a sometimes merely irritating, sometimes devastating magical disease. Some have suffered this and barely noticed it before the fever broke on its own, and some have been left feebleminded. The victim's innate magicka and intelligence will trickle away, day by day, for as long as three weeks.

Wound Rot

Wound Rot very slowly erodes the victim's strength, endurance, and health until cured.

Yellow Fever

The endurance, willpower, and health of a victim of Yellow Fever will decline each day, until they find a cure or die.

Yellow Tick

Yellow tick is a mild common disease affecting a victim's strength and mobility. Symptoms include dark, bruise-like swelling, sensitive to touch. It may be contracted from wolves, bears, kagouti and zombies.

See Also

• The Blight
• Vampirism
• Lycanthropy