Chemistry - List of fictional diseases

This is a list of fictional diseases, named medical conditions that do not exist. These include naturally evolved, accidentally man-made or intentional biological weapons. Also, a brief pathology is included for these fictional illnesses, where appliciable.

AMPS (Acquired Melanin Production Syndrome) - sexually transmitted, genetically engineered disease that turns white people black, Good News From Outer Space, by John Kessel
Andromeda - airborne pathogen, unknown organism, extraterrestrial origin, causes fatal blood clotting, Andromeda Strain
Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome - a disease that apparently re-activates pseudogenes, resulting in physical "devolution" to earlier phenotypes. Named after Reginald Barclay in whose body it was inadvertently created, Star Trek: The Next Generation
"The Big Death" - airborne pathogen, virus, biological weapon, notable for its high lethality amongst persons over the age of puberty, Jeremiah
Boneitis - fatal, non-contagious, affliction of the bones, Futurama
"Captain Trips" - virus, The Stand
Cyberbrain Closed Shell Syndrome - a type of autism caused by cyberbrain implants, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Cyberbrain Sclerosis - cyberbrain implant malady resembling multiple sclerosis, eventually fatal, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
Drafa Plague - Babylon 5
Dreaming Death - killed characters on the soap opera Guiding Light
DR SAM - A drug-resistant staphylococcus strain in Anne Benson's The Plague Tales novels.
Entitilitus - "Nobody knows what entitilitus is, but entitilitus kills", Mr. Show
Fairy Flu - causes fairies to lose control of their magical powers, The Fairly Oddparents
Foaming Sheep Sickness - disease caused by eating green mutton in the Discworld novel Jingo, a parody of Mad Cow Disease.
Glaubner's disease - Firesign Theatre
Gray Death - Deus Ex
Homer Simpson Syndrome - Homer Simpson: "Oh, why me?"; genetic condition, causes cerebral fluid to be 1/8" thicker than normal, cushioning the brain like a helmet, perhaps at the cost of some mental faculties, The Simpsons
Human Metahuman Vampiric Virus (HMHVV) - blood-borne pathogen, virus, known to produce vampires, wendigoes and other abominations, Shadowrun role playing game
- Krieger strain - strain of HMHVV, with similar contagion, but produces cannibalistic ghouls, also Shadowrun
Imminent Death Syndrome (IDS) - sufferers are "on the brink of death for 80 to 100 years", Mr. Show
Jigsaw disease - terminal disease that causes random parts of the body to spontaneously vanish, from the Judge Dredd comics
JUVE - biological weapon developed by Crake, distributed initally in a dormant form via his BlyssPluss pills, symptoms include necrotizing flesh and extreme hemorrhaging to organs, Oryx and Crake
Magnimus Obliviophallocytis a.k.a "Little Donny Disease" - hereditary, enlarged genitalia, Upright Citizens Brigade
Martian venereal disease - untreatable infection rare on Earth (except among certain City prostitutes), Transmetropolitan
Metastatic Human Cancer Virus - causes unusual cancer that can not be killed, but can be removed, and, despite name, can infect animals and even plants, Loop by Koji Suzuki
Motaba virus (named for the Motaba River) - causes hemorrhagic fever in humans similar to that of Ebola, a later strain was found to be airbourne, Outbreak
Necrotizing fasciitis - An actual disease; however, when it was featured in the movie Cabin Fever, it had a drastically accellerated and amplified effects.
Nerve Attenuation Syndrome (NAS), a.k.a. "the Black Shakes" - environmental attributed cause, increased seizures to the point of death, Johnny Mnemonic
Noocytes - genetically engineered lymphocytes, highly intelligent and capable of altering genetic material, Blood Music
Pecanitis - from CatDog, affects dogs who eat pecans; can take effect in a variety of ways. In Dog's case, it causes a large pecan tree to grow out of his head.
"The Phage" - disease which destroys the genetic and cellular patterns of the Vidiian race in Star Trek:Voyager
Planets - a rare magical disease on the Discworld, the most obvious symptom of which is small planets orbiting the victim.
"The Rage" - blood-borne pathogen, virus, possible biological weapon, causes uncontrollable rage within seconds of exposure, 28 Days Later
Recalcitrant plebney - invented by Don Martin of Mad Magazine
Rigellian fever - from the "Requiem for Methuselah" episode of Star Trek
Senga - sexually transimitted disease in But'n'Ben A-Go-Go by Matthew A. Fitt
Solanum - A virus which causes infected humans to become zombies, The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead by Max Brooks
Suds - a illness contracted by SpongeBob SquarePants (and presumably other sponges) instead of the common cold. Has many of the same symptoms as a cold, except that when sneezing takes place, soapsuds come out of his pores. Can be cured with the "sponge treatment" (using the sponge for cleaning jobs), SpongeBob SquarePants
Symbalene blood burn - causes the vascular lining of blood vessels to boil away, Star Trek: Enterprise
Syphon Filter - an artificial virus described as "the ultimate bioweapon" because it can be genetically programmed to target any ethnicity. Featured in the video game series of the same name.
Tumorsyphilisitisosis - a fake fictional disease which causes extra nipples, which look remarkably like pepperoni, to grow and then fall off. Conceived by Peter Griffin as part of a brilliant scheme to get a canceled television program back on the air, Family Guy
T-Virus - virus, causes dementia and cellular necrosis, mutates easily into other strains, which often have mutagenic effects on the host, Resident Evil
Vegan choriomeningitis - contagious pathogen from Vega, usually fatal, from "The Mark of Gideon" episode of Star Trek
Venereal ergot infection - produces uncontrollable hallucinations and delirium, Transmetropolitan
Virally Induced Toxic Allergy Syndrome (VITAS) - airborne pathogen, virus, possible biological weapon, Shadowrun role playing game
Wasteland Herpes - sexual transmitted disease, radiation-mutated form of herpes, prevalent in prostitutes in post-WWIII Nevada, Wasteland computer game
Weasles - "bio-artificed" disease, apparently related to Mustelidae somehow: "We're talking boils that really bite." Mentioned in the Discworld novel Thief of Time
Zombie contagion - in the 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead, a person could only become a zombie after being bitten by another zombie, showing that whatever caused the dead to rise could only be passed through fluid contact. This makes the epidemic more disease-like in nature than the outbreaks in George A. Romero's original Dead Trilogy, in which any dead body could become reanimated.