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* Not disease, but medicine - ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' averts this nicely by having characters [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2009-02-03 have med-kits specific to their species]. These so far have not worked on other species, though there haven't (yet) been any incidences of adverse effects.
** Medical nanites are
** Speaking of nanites, while many species eat the same stuff, there are big exclusions. Such as critters of Eina-Oafa who (presumably) come from the Oafan metal-rich homeworld, and then co-evolved for millions of years with runaway nanobots of ancient Oafa and moved very far from typical organic biochemistry. They got not only metal ''compounds'' in concentrations toxic for almost anything else, but ''inclusions'' of deposited amorphous metals that reinforce carapaces, bones or structural components of muscles.
** And then there are [http://www.schlockmercenary.com/2001-08-03 Nejjat].
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