Oblivion:Disease

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Contracting a disease weakens specific skills or attributes of your character. Disease effects will remain active until cured with a potion, spell, or an altar or wayshrine. With few exceptions, diseases drain your attributes and should be cured as soon as possible. One particularly notable and somewhat unique disease is Porphyric Hemophilia, which will turn your character into a vampire three days after contracting it. Multiple disease effects will stack together. Although beggars carry diseases, they will only infect the player when attacked. This is rare however, given that all beggars have low aggression and therefore tend to flee instead of fight. Also note that diseases cannot be spread by the player.

The following table lists each disease, its symptoms, and the creatures or beggars that spread it.

Name	Effect	Catch From
Astral Vapors	Damage Magicka 15pts, Stunted Magicka, Weakness to Magic 25%	Dread Zombie
Ataxia	Drain Strength 5pts, Drain Agility 5pts	Zombie, Imus the Dull, Fimmion SI
Black-Heart Blight	Drain Strength 10pts, Drain Endurance 10pts	Headless Zombie, Fralav the Faker
Blood lung	Drain Endurance 5pts	Rat, Rancid Ra'dirsha
Bone Break Fever	Drain Strength 5pts	Rat, Foul Fagus
BrainRot	Drain Strength 5pts	Rat, Nigidius the Needy
Brown Rot	Drain Strength 5pts, Drain Personality 5pts	Zombie, Penniless Olvus
Cannibal's Prion	Drain Agility 20pts, Drain Intelligence 20pts	Beating Heart from Unearthing Mehrunes Razor.
Chanthrax Blight	Drain Agility 10pts, Drain Speed 10pts	Boar, Headless Zombie
Chills	Drain Intelligence 10pts, Drain Agility 10pts, Drain Willpower 10pts	Headless Zombie, Cosmus the Cheat
Collywobbles	Drain Strength 10pts, Drain Endurance 10pts, Drain Speed 10pts	Headless Zombie, Wretched Aia, No-Coins Draninus
Dampworm	Drain Speed 5pts	Deer, Zombie
Droops	Drain Agility 5pts	Sheep, Zombie
Feeble Limb	Drain Strength 5pts	Rat
Greenspore	Drain Personality 10pts	Slaughterfish, Zombie
Helljoint	Drain Agility 5pts, Drain Speed 5pts	Wolf, Zombie, Simplicia the Slow
Porphyric Hemophilia	Drain Fatigue 5pts, Vampirism (after a three day incubation period)	Vampires, Beating Heart, the Darkness Eternal quest
Rattles	Drain Agility 10pts, Drain Willpower 10pts	Headless Zombie, Fetid Jofnhild
Red Rage	Drain Strength 5pts, Drain Willpower 5pts	Rat, Nigidius the Needy
Rockjoint	Drain Agility 10pts	Zombie, Bruccius the Orphan
Rust Chancre	Drain Personality 5pts, Drain Speed 5pts	Zombie, Jorck the Outcast
Scalon Blight	Drain Endurance 3pts, Weakness to Fire 25pts, Weakness to Frost 25pts	Scalon BruteSI
Scalon Fever	Drain Endurance 2pts, Weakness to Frost 25pts	Diseased ScalonSI
Scalon Sunburn	Drain Endurance 4pts, Weakness to Magic 25pts	Hulking ScalonSI
Serpiginous Dementia	Drain Intelligence 10pts, Drain Personality 10pts, Drain Willpower 5pts	Headless Zombie, Luckless Lucina
Shakes	Drain Agility 5pts	Rat, Foul Fagus
Swamp Fever	Drain Strength 10pts, Drain Endurance 10pts	BaliwogSI, Mudcrab, Headless Zombie, Lazy Kaslowyn, Ragbag Buntara
Ticklebritch	Drain Endurance 5pts, Drain Personality 15pts	A hoe in Sundercliff Mines, if the Unearthing Mehrunes Razor official plug-in is installed
Tunnel Cough	Drain Sneak 15pts	Mine Workers from Unearthing Mehrunes Razor
Witbane	Drain Intelligence 5pts	Dog, Zombie
Wither	Drain Strength 5pts, Drain Endurance 10pts	Mountain Lion, Headless Zombie, Nermus the Mooch
Witless Pox	Drain Intelligence 5pts	Rat, Rancid Ra'dirsha
Yellow Tick	Drain Strength 5pts, Drain Speed 10pts	Black Bear, Brown Bear, Headless Zombie, Puny Ancus, Deeh the Scalawag

• Characters with Resist Disease abilities are less likely to be infected.
• Astral Vapors ignores disease resistance. Characters with 100% Resist Disease and 100% Resist Magic (eliminating the possibility that a Weakness to Disease effect could be added) can be infected with Astral Vapors.
  • This bug is fixed by the Unofficial Oblivion Patch.
• Similar to Astral Vapors, Porphyric Hemophilia ignores disease resistance as well (This is not a bug, but is by design, introduced in the 1.1.511 patch and later, possibly so that Vicente Valtieri would be certain to give the player vampirism in Darkness Eternal.)
• Black-Heart Blight and Chanthrax Blight are watered down, common disease variants of Morrowind's Blight Disease

[edit] Dialogue

If you have a disease, townspeople may say one of the following things to you:

• "You don't look well, my friend. You should seek a healer."
• "Have you been to a Healer recently? Because you don't look so good."
• "Whatever you've got, I don't want it. Head to the Church before you get me sick."
• "Get away from me. I don't want whatever you've got!"