Neuro-Immuno Deficiency Syndrome

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Neuro-Immuno Deficiency Syndrome, (also known as NIDS, Neuro-Immune Deficiency Syndrome and N.I.D.S.), is a fictional, rare, incurable and fatal disease, presumably similar to AIDS or the real life NIDS. It was originally intended by Professor Gerald Robotnik to find a cure to this disease to save his granddaughter, Maria. He was asked by the government to try and make immortality possible. Gerald at first refused but then Maria developed N.I.D.S. and he said he'd do it to save her. Thus, Project: Shadow was created, a unique immortal life form that would hopefully allow humans to live forever; but the project failed when the military shut it down and killed or imprisoned those involved.

[edit] In the Archie Comics

Others have tried to cure N.I.D.S. in recent years; Dr. Ivo Kintobor in particular, who has successfully made a special suit, the Omega Care Unit, that stops the disease from progressing, but forces the victim to stay in the suit.

Buns Rabbot suffers from the disease in the comic series.