Imo it stands between Serpiginous Dementia and corpus. Both of them altering your appearence to a ugly cripple with hallucinations.
Ingame i rather prefer not to contract anything that drain strength or health like "droops", as i always cary maximum amount of loot.
Link to diseases/symptoms
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Diseases
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Diseases
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:Diseases
http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Disease
most of the known diseases
Astral Vapors
Ataxia
Blood lung
Blood Rot
Bone break
Brain Fever
Brainroot
Brown Rot
Caliron's Curse
Cannibals Prion
Cholera
Chrondiasis
Chills
Consumption
Collywobbles
Corprus
Crimson Plague
Dampworm
Droops
Feeble Limb
Greenspore
Helljoint
Leprosy
Plague
Rattles
Red Death
Red Rage
Rockjoint
Rotbone
Rust Chancre
Scalon Fever
Scalon Sunburn
Serpiginous Dementia
Shakes
Stomach Rot
Swamp Fever
Swamp Rot
Ticklebritch
Tunnel Cough
Typhoid Fever
Witbane
Witches' Pox
Witchwither
Wither
Witless Pox
Wizard Fever
Wound Rot
Yellow Fever
Yellow Tick
Blight diseases
Ash Woe Blight
Ash-chancre
Black-Heart Blight
Chanthrax Blight
Scalon Blight
Others
Porphyric Hemophilia (vampirsm)
Sanies Lupinus (lycanthropy)