Altarian Encephalitis
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A retrovirus that incorporates its DNA directly into the cells of its host. The virus can lie dormant for years, but activate without warning. Victims are be feverish, comatose and suffer from widespread synaptic degradation. Long-term memory is erased back to the point of infection.
Klingons seem to be immune to Altarian Encephalitis.