Medical Conditions, Fatal

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Incurable Medical Conditions in Federation Space, in Alphabetical Order

  • Anchilles fever-deadly disease, contageous
  • Dorek syndrome - incurable disease that afflicts one out of every five million Ferengi
  • Iverson's disease - causes fatal degeneration of muscular funtions in humans


  • Phage - a virus that infects bacteria by attaching a hollow protein tail to a bacteria cell wall, injecting DNA into the cell. Consumes the patient's body, destroying the genetic codes (no cure)
  • Symbalene blood burn - virulent disease, presenting multiple symptoms, including a sense of burning throughout the patient's body.
  • Teluran plague - spreads rapidly through contact; presents with coughing up blood, followed by ultra-sensitive skin within 12 hours; fever spike follows within 6 hours and death shortly afterward.

~From The Star Trek Encyclopedia, 1999 edition (with changes added by Liesel O'Brien, CMO, Kepler Station)