List of fictional diseases

Diseases, disorders, infections, and pathogens have appeared in fiction as part of a major plot or thematic importance.

They may be fictional psychological disorders, magical, from mythological or fantasy settings, have evolved naturally, been genetically modified (most often created as biological weapons), or be any illness that came forth from the (ab)use of technology.

Then, humans experience a sudden episode of panic and anxiety, as well as a fit of animalistic hunger, what is then followed by the loss of taste.

Next, the infected people experience aggression (causing unrest and chaos worldwide), and lose their hearing.

Similar to the Black Death and HIV/AIDS among humans, the Drafa plague bears a stigma among the Markab as a disease that the public felt was only caught by those considered sinful, immoral or unclean by Markab standards, and a punishment by their gods for committing such acts.