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 pyrexic and comatose and suffer from widespread synaptic degradation. Long term memory, usually from the moment of infection, is destroyed.
