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Idiopathic Acute Systemic Inflammation (IASI)

That works as the disease name, but the acronym is meh. If I take idiopathic out of the acronym, that leaves ASI. Not much better.
The other option is to give him throat cancer to explain why he coughs up blood, and have the chemo play havoc with his immune system, exacerbating his gold allergy, causing the severe rash around his neck. Seems rather complicated.

Thoughts?

No, I want no reminders of that *sshole in my book. Hinkley Syndrome might work. :-)

I've decided to make a change with De Rosa. His rash/coughing varies in intensity from day to day, but I need it until the end of the book. It's already annoying me, so my readers will probably hate it going on that long. Instead, he'll have a few really bad days throughout the book, and no symptoms on his good days. Still mulling over what the illness will be - a made up name (e.g., Holzberger Syndrome) vs. something that can't be diagnosed.

Thank you for the feedback, everyone.

No, it's a names bible, not merely a character bible. With all the Italian people, places, and things, it's essential. I can't believe I forgot I had it. Galaxy Tales, though, had one hundred characters, including names from history.

Oops. I have three characters with names that all start with C: Connor, Campagna, and Calabrese, and three that start with A: Angelo, Alessandro, and Father Albo (the referee). Time to create a names bible.

Definitely the new version. It's supposed to be a thriller. The original version was more suitable for a YA book. As I mentioned above, I'm still wondering if Connor should save Alessandro to minimize the violence in this book (the bodies are piling up). At a minimum, I need to tweak the chapter so that Connor is a little more emotional about Alessandro's death. Right now he's crying tears of joy. Not much empathy there.

V2 of Campagna Meets Connor is up. All-but-killed the soccer match, and many other changes described in the chapter notes.

Quick, go read!
Dirk

Thank you.

Thanks, all. It doesn't look like there's a disease that involves generalized inflammation that, as it progresses, leads to coughing up of blood and causes/worsens inflammation of the skin (and maybe other organs). I checked out all of your suggestions, but they're not close enough to what I need. There is such a thing as chronic low-level inflammation, which can affect the whole body, but it doesn't progress to increasingly severe inflammation. Instead, it leads to heart attacks and strokes, among other health problems. I think I'll go with systemic inflammation (somewhere between chronic and acute). The exact cause will be a mystery until the end of book one.

Thanks for your suggestions.
Dirk