List of diseases
From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
This is a list of diseases (most epidemic and dangerous) in the universe of Warhammer 40,000.
- Acute scorbutus flaw[28][Note 1]
- Aether Mortandis[22]
- Agent Magenta (bio-toxin)
- Bleeding Maw[12]
- Bloom
- Bonewrack
- Brittle Coma - forced Aeldari of Lugganath to search for Isha in the Garden of Nurgle[7]
- Chortling Murrain - a disease that causes its victims to laugh themselves to death. If it affecting a Plaguebearer he transforms to a Sloppity Bilepiper[4]
- Chronopox[12]
- Churning Lung[3]
- Crawling Pustulence[9][27]
- Destroyer Plague
- Doppleganger Virus[24]
- E. Coli[19]
- Endless Suppuration[3]
- Everseep[3]
- Eyeburn[15]
- Eyerot[2][27]
- Ferric Blight[9][10]
- Flayer Virus[23]
- Gellerpox[17]
- Glass Plague
- Gloaming Bloat[9]
- Gloam Rot[26]
- Goitre-Plague - was unleashed on Vigilus[8]
- Grey Flux - was unleashed on Vigilus[8]
- Gurgling Doom[6]
- Ironlung Plague[22]
- Kings' Disease[28][Note 3]
- Listeria[19]
- Meme-Virus
- Morbus Metallum[14]
- Mortlock’s Disease
- Mouldering[12]
- Nurgle's Rot
- Obliterator Virus
- Ocean Ague[15]
- Oozing Pox[2][27]
- Para-leprosy[18]
- Plague of Despair - mutated form of Zombie Plague[1]
- Plague zombie
- Rachitis[28][Note 2]
- Rad-Throat[15]
- Red Flux - kills only male population[11]
- Salt-Lung
- Slitherpox[3]
- Somnambuphage - mutated form of Zombie Plague[1]
- Spawnrot Fewer - mutated and swift-spreading form of Zombie Plague[1]
- Suppurant Scourge[5]
- Swinepox[16]
- Tears of the Dragon
- Torment
- Tsepsis - was unleashed on Vigilus[8]
- The Plague That Walks[27]
- The Daemon Plague
- Uhlren's Pox[13]
- Vintner’s Blight[20]
- Virus bomb (varies)
- Voar - xenos-infection[25]
- Walking Pox - victims of this disease became Poxwalkers[1]
- Weeping Gift[3]
- Weeping Plague aka Sorrow[21]
- Witch-curse
Trivia
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Notes
- Note 1: Scorbutus is another name for Scurvy.
- Note 2: Rachitis is another name for Rickets.
- Note 3: Kings' Disease is possibly referring to Goute, "the disease of kings".
See also
Sources
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- 1: Dark Imperium (Game), 'Death Guard Booklet' pg. 9 - Poxwalkers
- 2: NNew Warhammer 40,000: War Zone Ultramar (last visited 26 June 2017)
- 3: Crusade (Novella), Chapter 2
- 4: The Third Day of Nurgle: Heralds (last accessed 15 January 2018)
- 5: Codex: Adeptus Custodes (8th Edition), pg. 42 - Venerable Contemptor Dreadnought
- 6: Codex: Chaos Space Marines (8th Edition), pg. 162
- 7: Codex: Chaos Daemons (8th Edition), pg. 19 - Ininvited Guests
- 8: Imperium Nihilus: Vigilus Ablaze, pg. 92
- 9: Conquest 09 — Outbreaks of War
- 10: Codex: Thousand Sons (8th Edition), pg. 24
- 11: Warlords of the Dark Millennium: Typhus, pg. 8 - Typhus the Traveller
- 12: Warhammer Community: No Respite – New Arrivals (posted 11/02/2020) (last accessed 11 February 2020)
- 13: Fight or Flight (Short Story) - Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium (Omnibus)
- 14: Faith in Iron (Short Story)
- 15: Impurities (Short Story) - No Good Men (Anthology), pg. 137
- 16: The Vincula Insurgency (Novel), pg. 26
[Help] - 17: Codex: Gellerpox Infected, pg. 5
- 18: Farseer (Novel), Chapter One
Heretic Tomes - 19: Backcloth For A Crown Additional (Short Story)
- 20: Outgunned (Novel), Chapter Eight
- 21: Gathering Storm: Rise of the Primarch, pg. 46 - The Sorrow
- 21: Suffer Not the Unclean to Live (Short Story)
- 22: Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Dark Crusade - Campaign Map - The Pavonian Heartland archive
- 23: Codex: Necrons (5th Edition), pg. 37
- 24: White Dwarf 273 (UK), pg. 54
- 25: Deathwatch: The Achilus Assault, pg. 65
- 26: Faction Pack: Chaos Daemons, pg. 5. (archived from the original 10 December 2025, last accessed 27 December 2025)
- 27: Codex Supplement: Ultramarines (8th Edition), pg. 35 - The Plague Wars
- 28: Void Stalker (Novel), Chapter
