White Bird Disease

White Bird Disease is the main motif in White Bird Disease.

## Information

White Bird Disease is a noncommunicable, non-infectious disease that starts with a "sense of impending doom" or "a feeling that nothing is right", which often evolves into sundry other stages depending on the person who is infected.

It's not any type of pathogen, but it could be considered as a type of mental/physical/psychological disorder.

For example, a person who likes trees may turn into a tree themselves, or a person who likes art, and has nightmares, will have this constant urge to draw horrifying things until they turn into an amalgam of the monsters themselves or they start marking their illustrations with blood, which in this case the illustrations will come alive.

## Symptoms

Symptoms include, but are not limited to:

* A sense of impending doom, aforementioned
* A feeling that nothing is right, aforementioned
* Pain all over the body
* Coughing bloody metal or iron
* Flowers growing from one's head
* One's feet turning into living firecrackers
* Becoming a laptop overnight
* Becoming a shoe overnight
* Transcending oneself and humanity as a total, with their mind fragmenting into nonsensical lines of hexademical and merging with the false heavens
* Sprouting wings on one's ankles

## Origins

No one truly knows where it came from. However, multiple attempts its origin have been made:

* The government had made it to silence society
* A mad scientist made WBD to render humanity insane and helpless
* An elder god is wreaking havoc on Earth
* God himself wants to punish humans for their sins
* The disease isn't real and everyone is just suffering from mass hysteria for no reason
* Oxygen causes hallucinations, which ties into the previous point
* The human brain couldn't take this stress and is fleshing out its creativity/insanity to 100%, controlling the human body on its own
* We're all in Plague Inc. and White Bird Disease is one of the diseases the player had made

## Causes

There is no single cause, and it is caught no matter who or what you are, however it is mostly present in people who:

* Are highly stressed
* Are manic
* Have doubt in oneself
* Are considered bad people by society
* Are bullied
* Are the bully
* Are innocent
* Are not innocent
* Were bitten by an animal (especially one with rabies)
* Are suffering from a form of cancer
* Believe themselves to be "cursed"

## Cure

There is no cure. However, people are reminded to keep a confident mindset at all times so that the chances of getting WBD are low, although this has little effect.

Scientists and doctors have made a vaccine which can slow the rate of WBD if the person already has it. The vaccine has mental and physical effects for the brain.

## Trivia

* Only 4% of people have survived, but they are never the same.
	+ Sometimes they suffer from mania as an after-effect.
* People who recover are normally kept in asylums or quarantined in their house.
* It's called White Bird Disease because people who had the disease in its early stages would usually kill a random white bird or dove.
	+ A 14-year-old boy nicknamed "Patient Zero" was the first ever victim, and a dead bird was found near what was meant to be his body.