blue disease

The name cyanosis, literally means "the blue disease" or "the blue condition".

A disease is cured when someone plays five cards of the same color (discard five blue cards, for instance, and the blue disease now has a vaccine).

How Pandemic Works Blue disease is piling up in London and Atlanta while the scientist and the medic bicker over the next best steps for fighting the rising tide of infection.

He has written the scene so that Gripeall, who has barricaded himself in his room for fear of the cholera morbus, will lift the lid from his tray of food and find upon it the head of Jeremiah, in disguise as the blue disease.

Now, though, in 1831, as we home in on the figure of Gustine picking her way through the dark streets in her incongruously grand blue gown, Sunderland is in quarantine, starved of its commerce with the Continent for fear of cholera - the "blue disease."