Rakghouls...are sort of like what we saw out there. A virus that spreads pretty rapidly and changes or degrades sentient minds, and alters the body irreversibly. The big difference is the virus is airborne and the only race we know of that's immune to it is Twileks.

[He leans against a wall]

If it shows up on an Outer Rim planet, it's been policy for since the dawn of the Republic, and even the Empire to turn it to glass from orbit. Pretty much a death sentence for any colony there. If it turns up on a Core World, the containment policy isn't too different from the Malnosso's.