Laughing Plague

The laughing plague is a disease spread by a bacteria. It isn't a plague however due to it's lethal effect it is named that. The way it's spread is when the bacteria enters the host and attacks both it's nervous system and it's brain. This results in an heavy amount of tickling and laughing. Eventually, the laughing causes the victim to have it's heart fail, resulting in intensive care. The main killer is the SDBL or Sudden Death By Laughing.

Symptoms

 * Phase 1: The plague enters the victim and begins to invades the brain cells and the nervous system. Nothing happens.


 * Phase 2: The victim starts to laugh at events not considered funny by peers.


 * Phase 3: The victim now has 'laugh attacks', which are sudden, random bursts of laughters, which can last from short attacks to prolonged, deep laughter.


 * Phase 4: The victim is now laughing for the majority of time and this causes the heart to fail.


 * Phase 5: The victim has a SDBL attack; Sudden Death By Laughing.

Trivia

 * There was a Laughing plague pandemic in Dorkugal in 2007. Thousands died.


 * The laughing plague killed off many penguins on the island of Gulapada when the Castillans introduced it in the 1500's.