Morrowind:Diseases

This is a complete list of the diseases you can catch in Morrowind. You can inflict yourself with a disease through console commands with the AddSpell command and the disease ID.

Common Diseases

These are the most common diseases in Morrowind. They can all be cured with the Cure Common Disease effect, or you can protect yourself with the Resist Common Disease effect. Resist Magicka allows you to resist the drain effects of diseases, but does not protect from catching the diseases themselves. Some races are naturally resistant to diseases. Argonians, High Elves, Redguards, and Wood Elves each have 75% resistance. You can achieve 100% resistance after a point in the main quest.

Name	Effect	Catch From	Description
Ataxia ataxia	Drain Strength 10 pts on Self  Drain Agility 10 pts on Self	Diseased Alit Plague Bear BM	Ataxia is a mild common disease affecting the victim's strength and dexterity. Symptoms include generalized pain and muscle stiffness. It may be contracted from slaughterfish.
Brown Rot brown rot	Drain Strength 10 pts on Self  Drain Personality 10 pts on Self	Bonewalkers Worm Lord Wraith of Sul-Senipul	Brown rot is a mild common disease affecting the victim's strength and behavior. Symptoms include necrosis and sleeplessness. It may be contracted from the bonewalker, skeleton, greater bonewalker, or bonelord.
Chills chills	Drain Intelligence 10-30 pts on Self  Drain Agility 10-30 pts on Self  Drain Willpower 10-30 pts on Self	Fedris Tharen	Chills is an extremely dangerous common disease affecting the victim's mind and coordination. Symptoms include clumsiness and mental confusion. It may be contracted from the bonewalker, skeleton, greater bonewalker, or bonelord.
Collywobbles collywobbles	Drain Strength 10 pts on Self  Drain Endurance 10 pts on Self  Drain Speed 10 pts on Self	Diseased Shalk	Collywobbles is a serious common disease affecting a victim's strength, endurance, and mobility. Symptoms include uncontrollable shaking and chronic weariness. It may be contracted from the fiery shalk.
Crimson Plague TR crimson_plague	Drain Fatigue 100 pts on Self  Drain Acrobatics 10-20 pts on Self  Drain Athletics 10-20 pts on Self  Drain Strength 10 pts on Self  Drain Endurance 10 pts on Self	Infected Rat TR Shunari Eye-Fly TR Athelyn Malas TR
Dampworm dampworm	Drain Speed 10-30 pts on Self	(nothing)	Dampworm is a serious common disease affecting a victim's mobility. Symptoms include uncontrollable muscle spasms and twitching. It may be contracted from the nix-hound.
Droops droops	Drain Strength 10-30 pts on Self	Diseased Kwama Worker Diseased Scrib Assantus Hansar	Droops is a serious common disease that affects a victim's strength. Symptoms include weak and flaccid muscle tissues. It may be contracted from all forms and stages of kwama.
Greenspore greenspore	Drain Personality 10-20 pts on Self	Din Thoronor	Greenspore is a serious common disease affecting a victim's behavior. Symptoms include irritability and violent outbursts, and may include mild dementia. It may be contracted from slaughterfish.
Helljoint helljoint	Drain Agility 10 pts on Self  Drain Speed 10 pts on Self	Diseased Cliff Racer	Helljoint is a mild common disease affecting a victim's mobility and dexterity. Symptoms include persistent irritation and inflammation of joints. It may be contracted from the girdle-tailed cliff racer.
Rattles rattles	Drain Agility 10 pts on Self  Drain Willpower 10 pts on Self	(nothing)	Rattles is a mild common disease affecting a victim's willpower and dexterity. Symptoms include muscle spasms and listlessness. It may be contracted from the nix-hound.
Rockjoint rockjoint	Drain Agility 10-40 pts on Self	(nothing)	Rockjoint is an acute common disease affecting a victim's manual dexterity. Symptoms include painful swelling and immobility of all joints. It may be contracted from the domesticated guar or dusky alit.
Rotbone TR rotbone	Drain Fatigue 3 pts on Self	Diseased Durzog TR
Rust Chancre rust chancre	Drain Personality 10 pts on Self  Drain Speed 10 pts on Self	(nothing)	Rust chancre is a mild common disease affecting a victim's mobility and behavior. Symptoms include swelling and rash, and painful muscle spasms. It may be contracted from the waste rat.
Serpiginous Dementia serpiginous dementia	Drain Intelligence 10 pts on Self  Drain Personality 10 pts on Self  Drain Willpower 10 pts on Self	(nothing)	Serpiginous dementia is a serious common disease affecting the victim's mind and behavior. Symptoms include hallucinations and an itchy and unsightly scaly skin condition resembling snake scales.
Swamp Fever swamp fever	Drain Strength 10-20 pts on Self  Drain Endurance 10-20 pts on Self	Diseased Mudcrab Lette	Swamp fever is a mild common disease affecting the victim's strength and behavior. It may be contracted from the mudcrab. The symptoms include high body temperature and delirium, but there are no easily visible signs.
Porphyric Hemophilia vampire blood aundae vampire blood berne vampire blood quarra	Restore Fatigue 1 pt on Self  Vampirism on Self	Vampires
Sanies Lupinus BM werewolf blood	Drain Fatigue 1 pt on Self	Werewolves BM
Weak From Bloodlust BM werewolf hunger	Damage Health 1 pt on Self  Damage Fatigue 2 pts on Self
Witbane witbane	Drain Agility 10-40 pts on Self	Diseased Rat	Witbane is an acute common disease affecting a victim's memory and thought processes. Symptoms include loss of memory and disorientation. It may be contracted from the rat.
Witchwither witchwither	Paralyze on Self	Hisin Deep-Raed
Wither wither	Drain Strength 10 pts on Self  Drain Endurance 10 pts on Self	Dreamers	Wither is a mild common disease that affects a victim's strength and endurance. Symptoms include loss of energy and shortness of breath. It may be contracted from dreugh.
Yellow Tick yellow tick	Drain Strength 10 pts on Self  Drain Speed 10 pts on Self	Diseased Kagouti Plague Wolf BM	Yellow tick is a mild common disease affecting a victim's strength and mobility. Symptoms include dark, bruise-like swelling, sensitive to touch. It may be contracted from the least kagouti.

Blight Diseases

There are also other diseases, called Blight diseases, in Morrowind. These are more serious, and slightly harder to cure. It is recommended to carry either a few potions, scrolls or an enchanted item (such as Amulet of Ashamanu or Amulet of Flesh Made Whole) with the Cure Blight Disease effect when venturing into the Ashlands, Molag Amur, or Red Mountain areas, where these diseases are prevalent. It's also possible to cure oneself of blight diseases with spells, but they are so expensive and hard to cast that this is not a practical option for most characters. Resist Blight Disease can protect from catching blight diseases, but is impractical to use compared to simply curing after catching one. Like with regular diseases, the drain effects of blight diseases can be resisted with Resist Magicka, though it does not protect from catching the diseases themselves. A free 'on Touch' Cure Blight Disease spell (with the lowest casting cost) can be obtained from the real Ashmask of Vivec, which makes it useful for a few quests where NPCs need to be cured. There is evidence within the Morrowind.ini file that suggests a plan to implement a percentage chance of catching one of the four blight diseases from ash storms (Disease Chance=.10), but for some reason the mechanic was never implemented into the game.

Name	Effect	Catch From	Description
Ash Woe Blight ash woe blight	Drain Intelligence 20-40 pts on Self  Drain Willpower 20-40 pts on Self	Ascended Sleeper Ash Ghoul Ash Slave Blighted Shalk Numerous Dagoths	Ash-woe is an acute blight disease affecting a victim's will and thought processes. It may be contracted from corprus beasts or other blighted creatures.
Ash-chancre ash-chancre	Drain Personality 20-40 pts on Self	Ascended Sleeper Blighted Cliff Racer Blighted Kwama Blighted Scrib Bulfim gra-Shugarz	Ash-chancre is an acute blight disease affecting a victim's behavior. It may be contracted from corprus beasts or other blight monsters.
Black-Heart Blight black-heart blight	Drain Strength 20-40 pts on Self  Drain Endurance 20-40 pts on Self	Ascended Sleeper Blighted Alit Blighted Nix Hound Blighted Rat Lame Corprus	Black-heart is an acute blight disease affecting a victim's strength and endurance. It may be contracted from corprus beasts or other blight monsters.
Chanthrax Blight chanthrax blight	Drain Agility 20-40 pts on Self  Drain Speed 20-40 pts on Self	Ascended Sleeper Blighted Kagouti Blighted Kwama Warrior	Chanthrax is an acute blight disease affecting a victim's dexterity and mobility. It may be contracted from corprus beasts or other blight monsters.

Corprus Disease

Worst of all the afflictions is the dreaded Corprus Disease. While technically a type of Blight disease, it has (in lore) no known cure, although Divayth Fyr spends his days researching one in the Corprusarium.

There are only two ways to catch this disease:

• during the Sixth House Base mission in the main quest, which is completely unavoidable, and
• during the Disease Carrier quest in the Tribunal Temple questline, which is a game-breaking bug.

Corprus is sometimes called the "Divine Disease" by followers of Dagoth Ur, as it is not truly a disease at all, but the physical effects of the deity's power on mortal flesh. Chunks of diseased corprus flesh (a.k.a. corprusmeat) are often eaten by the afflicted, negating any need for other food. It also plays a key role in the creation of Ash Creatures: followers of Dagoth Ur close to his power are slowly transformed into powerful Ash Creatures, such as the Ascended Sleeper, while his weaker followers, like the Dreamers, eventually rot and become Corprus Stalkers and Lame Corprus.

Name	Effect	Catch From	Description
Corprus corprus	Corprus on Self  Drain Intelligence 1 pt on Self  Drain Willpower 1 pt on Self  Drain Personality 1 pt on Self  Drain Speed 1 pt on Self  Fortify Strength 1 pt on Self  Fortify Endurance 1 pt on Self	Dagoth Gares during Sixth House Base Tanusea Veloth during Disease Carrier	Corprus is a deadly disease profoundly affecting a victim's mind and body. Symptoms include dementia, violent behavior, and distorted, disfiguring skin growths. It may be contracted from corprus beasts or other blight monsters.