Rhen's disease

Rhen's Disease is a disease that apparently struck at random—nobody knows how Rhen’s is contracted. It causes people to die of a slow death well before middle age, and in pain. Children born of a Rhen's Disease patient are born sterile. 
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Through research into his mother Shmi Skywalker's trading clan and Obi-Wan's, Anakin Skywalker discovers that all trading clans that submit information to Republic databases have reported "pandemic level instances of Rhen’s Disease." Several trading clans were entirely decimated, the survivors left sterile because of it, and their trade route taken over by the Trade Federation.
Furthermore, no one outside of trading clans' blood has come down with Rhen’s Disease—including Jedi. All Jedi with Rhen's, or sterile because of Rhen's, are trader folk. 
Kenobi thinks that "Rhen’s Disease is an artificially created disease that was specifically designed to target the clans, probably by making sure it only recognized certain genetic markers."
Previous to the spread of Rhen's, the trading clan groups contributed to ten percent of the Jedi Order’s total population for at least fifteen hundred years. After the disease, it dropped to less than one percent. 
The conclusion drawn from Skywalker's research is that Rhen's Disease and its spread is a manufactured genocidal pandemic. 
Both the Jedi Council and the Chancellor Finis Valorum were made aware of it in 5201.
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