Made-up Diseases in Cartoons

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I really liked the Futurama episode "Future Stock." For those that haven't seen it, that's the one where a cyrogenically frozen 80s guy is thawed out and takes over the shipping company. Unfortunately, he was frozen because he had Boneitis, a horrible, incurable (in his time) bone disease.

http://theinfosphere.org/Boneitis

He forgets to cure it because he gets so wrapped up in taking over Planet Express and it kills him.

"My only regret is ... that I have... Boneitis."

So, are there are other instances of completely made-up diseases in cartoons? It would be interesting to talk about what the symptoms were and, since these things are usually resolved in 22 minutes, what the cures are.
 
There was the Rugrats episode "Rhinoceritis!" Angelica convinces Chuckie that he is turning into a rhinoceros because he has a scab on his leg, a bump on his head (where a horn would be), is irritable, and eats grass. By the end of the episode, Angelica winds up with a scab and Chuckie exclaims "YOU'VE got rhinoplasty!"

After doing some research, "rhinoceritis" actually refers to large mass hysteria.
 
Salmonella Fitzgerald from that one short that Kids Next Door's creator did before KND got picked up by Cartoon Network
 
A two part episode of X-Men titled Time Fugitives had an mad made plague created to make it seem like mutants were carrying a disease.

Bishop went in time to the present day in an effort to prevent the future resulting from said plague, only for it to have a disasterus result in Cable's future.

Cable goes back in time to ensure that the plague gets spread so that mutants will develop the a bodily defense, thus ensure that his future remains intact. But after discovering Wolverine's mutant ability, he sets it up so that Wolverine is exposed to a heavy amount of the plague (because his healing factor ensures that the antibodies necessary for the future will be made).
 
From Goof Troop, I was always partial to what Pete called "The Crud", which P.J. used to get out of going to school or something. It consisted of smearing peanut butter on your nose and shoving broccoli spears in your ears.
 
The Family Guy episode "If I'm Dyin', I'm Lyin'" has a made-up disease made by Peter to bring back his and Chris' favourite show.

I don't know how it was named, but it sounded sexy. :p
 
One of my favorites is the one that Bev Bighead caught after eating a diseased mosquito in the Rocko's Modern Life short "Nothing to Sneeze At": Amphibial-Glottal-Bloatus-Itus.
 
There was an episode of Alvin and the Chipmunks where Dave recieves a wax figure of himself, which confuses them into thinking he had Zomboid-rigidosis, which Theodore learned from watching a soap opera where a character develops the same disease.
 
There's also cash-i-titus (I don't know if I spelled that right) from the Ducktales Valentine's Day special. Basically, the triplets and Webby trick Aphroducky into thinking she's allergic to money :)
 
These are the following cartoon/CGI episodes that featured Made-up Diseases:

The aptly named episode: 'Blue Shadow Virus' (Star Wars: Clone Wars) in which the protagonists took decisive measures to prevent an extinct but deadly virus revived by a separatist mad scientist from releasing it on Naboo.

In the two-part 'Fury' (JLU) ep., Aresia created and unleashed a dangerous (unknown)virus capable of mass-extinction of a specific gender while the other remained completely immune to its effects.

It's common knowledge to many (if not everyone) on what caused Blight's origin in the second part of the 'Rebirth' (Batman Beyond) episode.
 
Oh, i have the cure for that one...
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BAM, LOOK AT THAT BACON SIZZLE!
 
Then there's Garfield's Hawaiian Cat Flu.
It makes victims lazy, abnormally hungry, and tremendously sleepy, each symptom having absolutely no effect on Garfield (other than his donning a Hawaiian shirt).
And just 'cause DarthGonzo can't believe it, I will mention Rabbititus.
Symptoms include: seeing spots before one's eyes, coating of the tongue (and it comes with a pair of pants), throwing fits, and in the final stages the patient assumes the characteristics of rabbits, all of which Elmer Fudd show in Hare Tonic.
 
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