Sci-fi Virus Name Generator

How the Sci-fi Disease / Virus Name Generator works

How the sci-fi virus name generator works

A disease in science fiction is named by the people who have it, the people who treat it, the people who isolated it and the people who remember it, and the generator gives all four. The common name is what the street says, a colour and a symptom, the Grey Cough, the Red Sweats, the Black Bleed, the White Stare, the Pale Silence, or a material and a fever, Glass Fever, Salt Flux, Iron Ague, Chalk Pox, Wax Palsy, Bone Blight, or a place and a symptom, the Halden Sleep, the Thule Tremor, the Kesh Itch, the Cinder Chill, or the wasting alone, the Wasting, the Quiet, the Fading, the Forgetting, the Hollowing, the Greying, or a long one, the Long Quiet, the Slow Fog, the Winter Cough, the Deep Sleep, the Second Wasting, since a common name says what it does to you in as few words as fear allows. The clinical name is what the chart says, a root and a syndrome, Veylor Syndrome, Cassidine Syndrome, Thren Syndrome, Marrow Syndrome, or a place, a tissue and a fever, Tarsian Haemorrhagic Fever, Haldenic Neural Disorder, Veyran Ocular Infection, Thulean Cortical Sickness, Keshi Septic Malady, or a root and an organ, Cassidine Encephalitis, Vantor Myelitis, Ashen Retinitis, Orlan Carditis, Lyran Nephritis, or a chronic thing, Chronic Lattice Rejection, Acute Implant Failure, Progressive Graft Necrosis, Latent Cortex Degeneration, Cryogenic Cellular Sclerosis, or the two names, Solan-Voss Disease, Kestrel-Calder Syndrome, Novar-Quade Palsy, Sidonian Blight, which is a name built the way real diseases are named, from where it was found, who found it and what it breaks. The strain code is what the laboratory wrote, a strain and a letter, Strain K-7, Strain V-3, Strain 41R, or a variant and a place, Variant Meridian-3, Variant Cinder-8, or the letters, HV-41, KV-19, MX-77, TD-08, or a pathogen, Pathogen 9, Pathogen 4, or an isolate, Isolate Thule 2, Isolate Kesh 5, or a type, Type K3, Type Q9, or a root and a number, Veylor-22, Thren-61, since a strain code is the name a disease has before anyone dies of it. The named outbreak is what the history says, a place and an outbreak, the Kestrine Outbreak, the Callix Outbreak, the Vantage Sickness, the Andrast Quarantine, or a numbered plague, the Second Ashfall Plague, the Third Halden Plague, the Great Solace Plague, the Little Sidon Plague, or a year, the Year of the Cough, the Year of the Sleep, the Year of the Silence, the Grey Year, the Red Year, the White Year, or a winter, the Sidon Winter, the Thule Winter, the Meridian Winter, or the long one, the Long Second Plague, the Slow Last Plague, the Fifth Wasting, which is a name that a grandparent uses and a child does not understand.

Common name gives the street. Clinical name gives the chart. Strain code gives the laboratory. Named outbreak gives the history.

The lists are original. The places and roots are the shared worlds and cast of this section cut into the shapes real medicine uses, and the colours, symptoms, materials, fevers, clinical adjectives, organ words, letters and digits are ordinary English and ordinary medical Latin of the kind every real disease name is built from; no published fictional virus, franchise plague or real disease appears in the lists, a match with a game, a film or a real illness would be chance, since every real fever was once named for a place and a colour, and a name intended for commercial use should be searched first.

For the drug that treats it, the sci-fi drug page; for the mutant it made, the mutant name page; for the group that survived it, the zombie apocalypse group page; for the world it emptied, the post-apocalyptic name page; and for the alien thing it came from, the alien creature page.

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