The Infestation (T͟Hə ˌinfəˈstāSHən)

Transmission & Vectors

This disease is transmittable mainly through ingestion or physical touch with an infected person. The disease is only infectious before any symptoms have started showing themselves, which leaves a 1-6 Deimosian week window as the time limit before the disease is no longer infectious.

Causes

The Infestation was a disease created and released by what the people of Deimos eventually recognized as the Deimosian god of healing and medicine, due to becoming enraged that Deimos was getting colonized by civilization not native to the planet. Since it is a disease with divine origins, a disease that was created to specifically affect the foreign colonizers of Deimos only, there are no specific environmental factors that cause transmission.

Symptoms

This disease shows its symptoms through metallic, distinctly biological, growths on the skin of the affected person. The metallic growths take over the function of the skin, muscle, nerves, and bones in the affected being. Any parts completely taken over by the metallic growths can still be moved by the infected person, but they lose the ability to feel with the infected body matter. Due to no longer being able to feel the infected body matter, the infected being will eventually start trying to tear it off by force or through some other means, but if they are successful in taking off the infected body matter, it will regrow on the spot wounded and heal the infected person of their missing body matter. Any of the infected beings will attempt to kill themselves once the disease reaches a certain stage, and they will employ any means that they can, common methods are a gunshot or knife stabs to the heart and/or brain if they are unaffected areas, or starvation if they cannot do any damage to their brain or heart.

Treatment

Because the disease is genetically created to only affect the people of Deimos, and was created by an angry god there is no way to treat any infected individuals.

Prognosis

The prognosis of any and all infected beings is only death, because there is no way to treat or prolong the life of any infected individuals.

Type

Divine

Origin

Divine

Cycle

Chronic, Acquired & Congenital

Rarity

Uncommon