Phthiriasis is slow. I mean, really slow. He can't even catch a cold.

The best he's managed is a collection of lice.

Just like orks - i.e. stupid and ugly - Bloodbowl is the best place for him. Hopefully someone will stamp this failure of a plague-spreading monstrosity into a greasy smear, increasing the fearsomeness of the Plague Lord's minions by an order of magnitude.

Some guys get all the luck. They get all the really nasty diseases, the coolest plagues, the ones with the best names... I mean, look at St. Vitus' Dance. how cool is that name? It's a matter of pride to have a disease like that.

Morphew... has the flu.

It's annoying, yes. Kind of debilitating. But it's not really up there in the suffering stakes, is it? It's not something long and lingering, something that people dread. It's an inconvenience.

Morphew intends to 'inconvenience' people on the Bloodbowl pitch, while trying to cultivate something more impressive. Lupus, maybe. Or leprosy.