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 '''Treatment''':  Adrenaline
-===Altarian Encephalitis===
+===Altairian Encephalitis===
-A retrovirus that incorporated its DNA directly into the cells of its host. The virus can lie dormant for years, but activate without warning. Victims would be pyrexic and comatose and would suffer from widespread synaptic degradation. Long-term memory, usually from the moment of the infection, would be destroyed.
+A retro-virus that incorporates its DNA directly into the cells of its host, lying dormant up to many years before becoming active and subjecting the host to a coma and delirium for days. This inactivity erases through synapse degradation all memory back to the point of infection. Apparently Klingons are immune to this infection.
+Type of Disease:  Cellular
+Treatment:  None Known
 ===Anchilles Fever===