Nope, no way. Did you ever read he was vulnerable to it? I didn't.
Forget Angband at last. Forget ill winds. This disease did not spread by wind. It was not spread by, for example, blood contact as well. You won't get the disease if you were eating from the same plate as the person who has it. And so on.
You won't find it in a medical's handbook. Not even in a medical handbook of a medic who would work in M-E.
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