There are a lot of diseases in The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered. You’ll pick up diseases from things like enemy attacks or even just fighting certain enemies.
Each disease affects your character differently. Mostly, diseases drain attributes or skills, making your character worse at whatever it drains, so it’s always a good idea to cure diseases as soon as you can.
Our Oblivion Remastered guide will tell you how to cure diseases, including which items to eat, potions to make, spells to cast, and shrines to visit. We’ve also included a list of all diseases in Oblivion Remastered.
How to tell if you have a disease in Oblivion Remastered
Open your menu to the Magic screen and then tab over to the skull — Active Effects. There, you’ll find a list of everything that’s affecting your stats, both good and bad. Scrolling through each of them, and you’ll see what disease, is any, is causing a negative effect.
All diseases list in Oblivion Remastered
There are a lot of diseases floating around Cyrodiil. You have the chance of picking up diseases based on the enemies you fight (and get attacked by), who you interact with, and even where you sleep.
| Disease | Effect | Contracted from |
|---|---|---|
| Astral Vapors | Stunted Magicka; drain Magicka 15; weakness to Magicka 25% | Dread Zombies |
| Ataxia | Drain Strength 5; drain Agility 5 | Bolwing; Fimmion; Flesh Atronachs; Imus the Dull; Zombies |
| Black-Heart Blight | Drain Strength 5; drain Endurance 5 | Fralav the Faker; Headless Zombies |
| Blood Lung | Drain Endurance 5 | Rancid Ra’dirsha; Rats |
| Bone Break Fever | Drain Strength 5 | Foul Fagus; Rats |
| Brain Rot | Drain Strength 5 | Nigidius the Needy; Rats |
| Brown Rot | Drain Strength 5; drain Personality 5 | Any enemy attacking with a hoe; Penniless Olvus; Zombies |
| Cannibal’s Prion | Drain Agility 20; drain Intelligence 20 | Eating the Beating Heart |
| Chanthrax Blight | Drain Agility 10; drain Speed 10 | Boar; Headless Zombie |
| Chills | Drain Intelligence 10; drain Agility 10; drain Willpower 10 | Cosmus the Cheat; Headless Zombie; any enemy attacking with a hoe |
| Collywobbles | Drain Strength 10; drain Endurance 10; drain Speed 10 | Headless Zombie; any enemy attacking with a hoe; No-Coins Draninus; Wretched Aia |
| Dampworm | Drain Speed 5 | Any enemy attacking with a hoe; Deer; Zombies |
| Droops | Drain Agility 5 | Any enemy attacking with a hoe; Sheep; Zombies |
| Feeble Limb | Drain Strength 5 | Rats |
| Greenspore | Drain Personality 10 | Slaughterfish; Zombies |
| Helljoint | Drain Agility 5; drain Speed 5 | Simplicia the Slow; Wolves; Zombies |
| Porphyric Hemophilia | Drain Fatigue 5; become Vampire after 3 days | Vampires |
| Rattles | Drain Agility 10; drain Willpower 10 | Fetid Jofnhild; Headless Zombie |
| Red Rage | Drain Strength 5; drain Willpower 5 | Nigidius the Needy; Rats |
| Rockjoint | Drain Agility 10 | Bruccius the Orphan; Zombies |
| Rust Chancre | Drain Personality 5; drain Speed 5 | Jorck the Outcast; Zombies |
| Scalon Blight | Drain Endurance 3; weakness to Fire 25%; weakness to Frost 25% | Scalon |
| Scalon Fever | Drain Endurance 2; weakness to Frost 25% | Scalon |
| Scalon Sunburn | Drain Endurance 4; weakness to Magic 25% | Scalon |
| Serpiginous Dementia | Drain Intelligence 10; drain Personality 10; drain Willpower 5 | Headless Zombie; Luckless Lucina |
| Shakes | Drain Agility 5 | Foul Fagus; Rats |
| Swamp Fever | Drain Strength 10; drain Endurance 10 | Baliwog; Headless Zombie; Lazy Kaslowyn; Mudcrab; Ragbag Buntara |
| Ticklebritch | Drain Endurance 5; drain Personality 15 | Any enemy attacking with a hoe |
| Tunnel Cough | Drain Sneak 15 | Argonian Laborer; Drothmeri Steward; Khajiit Laborer; Laborer |
| Witbane | Drain Intelligence 5 | Dog; Zombies |
| Wither | Drain Strength 5; drain Endurance 10 | Any enemy attacking with a hoe; Mountain Lion; Nermus the Mooch; Zombie |
| Witless Pox | Drain Intelligence 5 | Rancid Ra’dirsha; Rats |
| Yellow Tick | Drain Strength 5; drain Speed 10 | Ancus Afranius; Bear; Brina Cross Inn bed; Deeh the Scalawag; Headless Zombie |
Cannibal’s Prion and Porphyric Hemophilia are both related to vampirism.
How to cure diseases in Oblivion Remastered
Before we go into all the different ways to cure diseases, we should note that anything that cures a disease cures every disease affecting you — eating one shepherd’s pie is the same as casting the spell is the same as drinking the potion. That means deciding how to cure your disease(s) is as simple as checking what’s at hand.
If you catch a disease in Oblivion Remastered, you’ve got several options for curing it. These range from just eating a thing up to traveling to a few specific locations. We’ll go in order of complexity:
- Eat any item with “Cure Disease” as its primary effect. That’s it. These items include mandrake root, root pulp, Clannfear claws, and shepherd’s pie.
- Consume a Potion of Cure Disease. You can buy these from alchemists, or make your own. Ingredients to brew your own include: mandrake root, root pulp, Clannfear claws, shepherd’s pie, elf cup cap, hunger tongue, red kelp gas bladder, and withering moon.
- Cast a Cure Disease spell. You can purchase the Journeyman-level Restoration spell Cure Disease from several priests (at the Altars of the Nine) and healers around Cyrodiil.
- Visit an Altar of the Nine. There is an altar at each of the Great Chapels that you will find in every major city.
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