The Burn

The Burn or Warhol Fever are parasitical lifeforms from beyond the Sol System in Wildstorm Universe.

Physiology
The Burn thrive on heat, seeking host bodies to convert and inhabit. Like their namesake states, the Burn greatly burn out their victims. They are a hemorrhagic, lethal disease that give victims a brief fifteen minutes of feral superpowers and berserk rage before burning out their metabolism and explode, spreading their infection.

History
According to the Burn, they were set adrift on the solar winds of the newborn universe, dormant in the absolute zero of deep space. They eventually fell to prehistoric Earth, when life was still being made. When complex life took shape on the world, the Burn infected them bring death and destruction.

When the planet underwent the ice age, the Burn went into hibernation, waiting until the rise of the dinosaurs to assume the cycle of death again.

After causing the mass extinction of the dinosaurs they went into hibernation, only to be awoken once again by the machination of man's destructive capabilities.

After Post Collapse of civilization on Earth, the Burn reemerged as a new disease called Warhol Fever, the survivors were unaware of its true origins.