Hoorvackas disease

Hoorvackas disease was a degenerative disease which occurred naturally among the Sojun of Rubutu. Sufferers of Hoorvackas disease experienced both muscular and cognitive degeneration and came in two varieties:
 * The less common prenatal-onset Hoorvackas caused both mental and physical retardation in infants, but was not generally fatal.
 * Over 95% of cases were adult-onset Hoorvackas, which caused degeneration in otherwise healthy adults. The rate of the disease's progress depended on a variety of factors, but whether it took five years or twenty, it was invariably fatal.

The Golden Empire's Ministry of Health conducted ongoing studies on Soju sufferers of Hoorvackas in an attempt to create either a cure or therapy; was known to be ineffective in treating the degenerative symptoms. Soju Centurion Benzeel Rikos's mother died of Hoorvackas disease some years before 155 ABY.