Fiction:Venom

Venom is a microscopic, dangerous bacteria found naturally under the ocean.

Overview
Venom is a blue microbe with green and yellow specks. It has six flagella on it's rear, and two more flagella on it's front. It has two spikes on it's front, and another large spike on it's rear, encased by a jet. It has two eyes, and a Filter Mouth. Unlike cells with the Filter Mouth, Venom is an Omnivore, and it uses it to it's advantage in corrupting it's host.

Infection
As Venom is a poisonous bacteria, it causes a sickness known in the Spore universe as "Venomnosia".

Venomosia is mainly contracted by contracted by contact with polluted water. Venom will then enter your body through the skin, and travel to your body tissues. Afterwards, it will enter one of your cells through it's plasma membranes, undetected by the lysosomes. It will then proceed to eat the cell's ribosomes.

As most of the ribosomes are eaten, Venom will grow in size. It wil then relocate to a rough endoplasmic reticulum, where it will then eat the ribosomes located in it's surface.

Venom will grow in size once again. This time, it will be large enough for the lysosomes to notice, where they will proceed to attack the intruder. Venom, however, will simply devour the lysosomes. But they'll modify Venom's insides, causing it to have a must for devouring more organelles from the cell it is inside.

It'll eat the now-smooth endoplasmic reticulum, the golgi complex, and when it is large enough, it'll then eat the mitochondria scattered around the cell. Venom will then be large enough to eat the last remaining thing in the cell - the core.

Afterwards, Venom will leave thousands of eggs within the empty cell, that will later hatch into more Venoms, that will restart the cycle in other cells.

The mature Venom that left the eggs will then move itself to the blood veins, where it will move rapidly to the brain, eating red and white cells on it's way(growing even bigger). There, it will cause an infection to the neurons, and later even a tumor.

Symptoms
During the phase that Venom damages the tissue cells, the effects will vary from where the affected cells are located in. If they're muscle cells, the victim will feel fatigue and weakness. If they're bone cells, the victim will feel weak bones and fragility. If they're cartilage cells, the victim will feel staticity and reduced mobility. These effects worsen when more Venom bacteria infect more cells.

During the infected neurons phase, the most widely common effect that it causes is the infamous yellowish green trail effect. It marks that the infection is getting worse. It sometimes is possible to save the victim in this state, but it is generally too late.

The final symptom that the victim will feel is a pounding headache, from the incredibly large tumor that is created. There is no cure for when it gets on this stage as of yet. The only real way to know if the infection is Venomnosia is when it gets to the yellowish green trail phase, but since the headache phase comes right after that effect, it's usually too late.

If the infection isn't treated soon, the victim will die.

Cures
There are currently two cures for Venomnosia: Genetically modified leukocytes, and seperating the host cell from the rest.

The genetically modified leukocytes are white cells modified to be larger, way larger than even the Venom bacteria when they're at the second stage. Since they're larger, Venoms cannot eat them, and as such, they get decimated.

But there is a downside for this way. Those leukocytes die off in 15 minutes, which means if those leukocytes can't find the intruders in enough time, they'll die before they can reach their target.

The second method obviously includes seperating the host cell from the others.

It is only useful when the bacteria is in it's first stage of infection, where it still didn't ifnected the other cells. If the host cell is seperated, then the microbe obviously can't infect the other cells, even if it kills off the first cell.

Spread
Venomnosia can be spread through saliva. Spitting at others, biting a piece of meat then someone else biting the same piece of meat way too close to your bite(same goes for drinks), wet-kissing, and other factors can cause someone to contrast Venomnosia.