Morrowind:Diseases

This is a complete list of the diseases you can catch in Morrowind. Yellow entries appear only in Tribunal, and blue entries only in Bloodmoon.

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. You can inflict yourself with a disease through console commands with the AddSpell command and the proper disease ID.

Note: The numbers listed for effects are the maximum a disease can damage you; the minimum is always 10.

Name	ID	Effect	Catch From	Description
Ataxia	ataxia	Drain Strength & Agility 10	Diseased Alit Plague BearBM	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 & Personality 10	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, Agility & Willpower 30	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, Endurance & Speed 10	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 PlagueTR	crimson_plague	Drain Fatigue 100, Drain Acrobatics & Athletics 20, Drain Strength & Endurance 10	Infected RatTR Shunari Eye-FlyTR Athelyn MalasTR
Dampworm	dampworm	Drain Speed 30	(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 30	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 20	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 Speed & Agility 10	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 Willpower & Agility 10	(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 40	(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.
RotboneTR	rotbone	Drain Fatigue 3	Diseased DurzogTR
Rust Chancre	rust chancre	Drain Personality & Speed 10	(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, Personality & Willpower 10	(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 & Endurance 20	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, Vampirism	Vampires
Sanies LupinusBM	werewolf blood	Drain Fatigue 1, Werewolf	WerewolvesBM
Witbane	witbane	Drain Agility 40	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	Hisin Deep-Raed
Wither	wither	Drain Strength & Endurance 10	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 & Speed 10	Diseased Kagouti Plague WolfBM	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.

Note: As with the common diseases, the values are the maximum it can affect you. The minimum is 20 for all Blight diseases.

Name	ID	Effect	Catch From	Description
Ash Woe Blight	ash woe blight	Drain Intelligence & Willpower 40	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 40	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 & Endurance 40	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 & Speed 40	Ascended Sleeper Blighted Kagouti Kwama Warriors in Shurdan-Raplay Egg Mine	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, also known as the "Divine Disease". While technically a type of Blight disease, it has (in lore) no known cure, although Divayth Fyr in Tel Fyr spends his days researching one in the Corprusarium.

There are only two ways to get this disease: during the Sixth House Base mission during the Main Quest (this is completely unavoidable) and during the Disease Carrier quest in the Tribunal Temple quest line (this is a game-breaking bug).

Corprus is sometimes called the "Divine Disease" by followers of Dagoth Ur, and it is not truly a disease at all, but the physical effects of the deity's power on mortal flesh. Corprus metastases (i.e., big chunks of diseased flesh) 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	ID	Effect	Catch From	Description
Corprus	corprus	Corprus Drain Intelligence, Willpower, Personality & Speed 1 Fortify Strength & Endurance 1, Resist Common Disease 100%, Resist Blight Disease 100%, Resist Corprus Disease 100%	Dagoth Gares (Main Quest) Tanusea Veloth (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.