Infections

There are many diseases that can affect you in space! The following will come in handy for virologists, traitors, or any unfortunate soul who's come down with a case of brain rot.

Virology 101

Virology is sealed from the rest of the station. You are not on the disposals network, nor do you share the same atmos system

The first, and most important way to prevent 99% of infections, is proper hazard wear, and knowing how to keep the infection from spreading.

The Clothes

The following will protect you, from the dangerous infections of space, each giving more and more (till total) protection against infection:

• Level-3 Bio Hood
• Level-3 Bio Suit
• Jumpsuit (virologist, CMO, geneticist, chemist, doctor, nurse suit, scrubs, Research Director)
• Latex Gloves
• Sterile mask
• Shoes (White shoes and Galoshes are the best)
• Private (clean) Internals

Isolation

If you or another crew member is infected, do not spread the infection further. Seek the isolation bay of the medical wing, or head to a room no one will enter but yourself and other infected.

Sterilization

Cleaning blood spills from the ground will prevent contact contamination, make sure blood is cleaned from the floor at all time. Any blood splatter out there could hold a dreaded space infection. Contact a janitor if you see blood on the floor, do not interact with the blood if you suspect possible infection chance. Any object or floor that has infected blood on it can infect anyone who handles or touches it.

Methods of Infection

The following are the various ways a disease can spread, keep this in mind at all times:

• Airborne - The most dangerous and quick spreading, if you are anywhere within the breathing area of the infected crew member, you have a chance to be infected.
• Direct Contact - Requires you to touch, been touched, or be extremely close to the source of the infection. The infection will be spread by the skin and bodily fluids of an infected person, but will not survive long in the air.
• Blood - The infection will be spread by the bodily fluids of the infected person.
• Special - The disease is not normally contagious and the affected crewman has been infected by a non-human vector source. You can work with the infected without risk yourself unless they expose you to the same vector source that infected them.

Curing an infection

Every infection is vulnerable to one substance (or combination of two). To find it, you can put an infected blood sample in the PanD.E.M.I.C 2200 machine or use a health analyzer on an infected patient. Administering the substance to the patient (may require multiple injections) should cure him. Alternatively, if you have produced a vaccine, a simple injection should cure the patient.

64pxPanD.E.M.I.C 2200

This machine creates vaccines from the blood of people who have been cured.

Use:

1. Take a blood sample with a syringe.
2. Place sample into a beaker or bottle.
3. Load beaker into machine.
4. Select vaccine you wish to have.
5. Take vaccine bottle it produces.

Additional uses:

• Reveals the cure to any infected blood sample without needing to inject a living creature.

Infection Listings

Thankfully, humanity has managed to cure and eliminate almost all of the diseases that plagued its infancy. However, the vast reaches of space have been found to harbor new illnesses that can affect the unprepared staff on Nanotrasen research stations.

Disease Name	Vector Name	Source	Description	Spread	Cure
Alien Parasite	Xenomorph	Alien rape	A facehugger has implanted an embryo inside of the body of the victim, which will grow until it kills and destroys the body while spawning a larva.	Special	Surgery
Zombie Infection	Romerol	Syndicate Uplink	A rare infection, which lies dormant in the victim. If the victim dies before it is cured, it will rise as an aggressive zombie, who will then transfer the infection to anyone it manages to scratch. The infection consists in a tumor located inside the head.	Special	Surgery
Brain Rot	Cryptococcus Cosmosis	Virus crate, random events	An infection that causes mental degradation.	Contact	Mannitol
Cold	XY-Rhinovirus	Virology, random events	Still around since the dawn of man, this disease is relatively harmless, causing fatigue and a runny nose. Will progress to the Flu when untreated.	Airborne	Rest and Spaceacillin
Cold 9	ICE9-Rhinovirus	Admin fuckery	A rare disease that will progressively lower the victim's body temperature in addition to respiratory symptoms.	Contact	Spaceacillin
Flu	H13N1 Flu Viron	Virology, random events	A common illness, causes fatigue, high fever, and muscle toxicity. Rarely fatal, quickly spread.	Airborne	Spaceacillin
Anxiety	Excess Lepidopticides	Virus crate	Will cause feelings of anxiety and cause the victim to cough butterflies.	Contact	Ethanol
GBS	Gravitokinetic Bipotential SADS+	Admin fuckery	An extremely dangerous illness caused by contagious micro-singularities that will cause the human body to be torn apart from the inside. The initial phase begins in the lungs and mimics flu symptoms.	Contact	Sulfur and Synaptizine
Jungle Fever	Kongey Vibrion M-909	Admin fuckery	One of the most feared diseases in the galaxy, this is a disease carried by primates. A single bite or scratch is enough to fully infect a human. The result is spontaneous genetic reversion, and the affected individual will also become a monkey.	Special	Bananas, Death Squad
Magnitis	Fukkos Miracos	Virus crate, random events	An infection of magnetic bacteria that build up in the body. As the disease progresses any metallic items not bolted down near the infected person will be pulled toward them, even objects as large as canisters. Ingested iron will draw the bacteria to it and allow them to be excreted normally.	Contact	Iron
Pierrot's Throat	H0NI<42 Virus	Virus crate, random events	A brain disease that was brought back with the original explorers of Clown Planet that damages the basal ganglia, victims will have an uncontrollable urge to HONK.	Airborne	Bananas
Retrovirus	N/A	Admin fuckery	A DNA-altering retrovirus that will constantly mutate the genetic code of the host. Symptoms vary wildly from blindness to incredible fits of strength and green skin.	Contact	Rest or Mutadone
Space Retrovirus	S4E1 Retrovirus	Random events	A DNA-altering retrovirus that will copy the DNA of the first infected and apply it to every other infected.	Contact	Mutadone
Robotic Transformation	R2D2 Nanomachines	Roburgers, odd pizzas	A rare infection that slowly transforms the infected into a cyborg.	Special	Copper
Spanish Flu	1nqu1s1t10n Flu Viron	Admin fuckery	A rare and deadly form of flu that causes an incredibly high fever. Those infected will die of internal burns without treatment or religious conversion.	Airborne	Spaceacillin
Wizarditis	Rincewindus Vulgaris	Hacked MagiVend	A rare illness, causes spontaneous robe growth, randomly speaking incantations, and finally random teleportation.	Airborne	Manly Dorf
Xenomorphic Transformation	Rip-LEY Alien Microbes	Admin fuckery	A rare infection caused by xeno-microbes, changing the infected's DNA to that of a xenomorph. Symptoms include severe pain and progressive insanity.	Special	Glycerol and Spaceacillin
Heart Disease	N/A	Random event	The game categorizes it as a virus, and it progresses in stages, like a virus, so it's listed here.	N/A	Corazone, Electric Shocks, Heart Replacement Surgery
Fungal Tuberculosis	Fungal Tubercle bacillus Cosmosis	Nuke Ops Uplink, Strange Seeds	A rare highly transmittable virulent virus. Few samples exist, rumoured to be carefully grown and cultured by clandestine bio-weapon specialists. Causes fever, vomiting, lung damage, weight loss, and fatigue.	Airborne	Salbutamol and Spaceacillin
Gondola Transformation	Tranquility	Raw Gondola meat	Consuming the flesh of a Gondola comes at a terrible price. Produces Pax within the victims body resulting in pacifism, lessened motor control of the arms, and eventually turning the victim into a Gondola.	Special	Condensed Capsaicin

Advanced Diseases

You are able to create your own advance disease with different symptoms, which will have buffs, debuffs and bonuses!

You will start out with two advance diseases, the cold and the flu. The cold will have the sneeze symptom and the flu will have the cough symptom. They have almost no effect if they infect people, but you need them to acquire more symptoms.

The Pandemic can create culture bottles (basically copies) of existing viruses, so you won't run out while experimenting.

Modifying Symptoms

To obtain a new symptom you need to mutate an existing virus. This involves adding a chemical to the virus, which will generate a new symptom. Rarer and harder to acquire chemicals will yield more potent symptoms. You will start with enough chemicals to create a powerful disease, as long as you use them carefully. You can also insert an isolated symptom into your main virus, by moving 1 unit of the isolated culture to the main mix with a dropper. It will not work every time and may need to be repeated a few times.

Basic chemicals

These are the basic chemicals for virus mutation. These can be added to a culture to gain a symptom from a large pool- but it's about half as efficient as mixing advanced chemicals.

• Virus Food: You can make virus food with Water and Milk. Virology lab has its own Virus Food Dispenser. Mixing this with a disease will give that disease a symptom of level 1 to 2. Pure virus food is the only way to get level 2 symptoms, so, unlike plasma and mutagen, it is useful alone.
• Unstable Mutagen: You can use mutagen to mutate your disease and give it a symptom of level 2 to 4. Virology starts with a 30u bottle of mutagen.
• Liquid Plasma: Plasma can be used to mutate your disease to give it a symptom of level 4 to 6. Plasma in liquid form is generally in very limited supply, unless mining and chemistry cooperates with you. Virology starts with a 30u bottle of liquid plasma, and in some station layouts with extra plasma bars.

Advanced Chemicals

Using these will allow you to both save time and resources when trying to acquire the symptoms you want.

• Anomalous Virus Food: Anomalous Virus Food can be used to mutate your disease and give it a level 0 symptom. It is made by combining pure Laughter with virus food. Level 0 symptoms tend to be statistically similar to other symptoms, but have an unusual effect- good for gimmicks!
• Virus rations: Virus rations can be used to mutate your disease and give it a level 1 symptom. It is made by depleting Virus food with Synaptizine. Level 1 symptoms almost universally boost stats, but have very little effect. Level 2 symptoms tend to be a bit better, so it's wise to leave virus food as-is.
• Mutagenic Agar: Mutagenic agar can be used to mutate your disease to give it a level 3 symptom. It is made by mixing Unstable mutagen and virus food together. Level three symptoms tend to be either decent stat-boosters, or subpar active symptoms.
• Sucrose Agar: Sucrose agar can be used to mutate your disease to give it a level 4 symptom. It is made by mixing Sugar or Saline Glucose Solution and Mutagenic agar together. Level four symptoms are quite weak, so there is very little point to mixing this.
• Weakened Virus Plasma: Weakened virus plasma can be used to mutate your disease and give it a level 5 symptom. It is made by weakening virus plasma using Synaptizine. Level 5 symptoms tend to be some of the strongest stat symptoms
• Virus Plasma: Virus plasma can be used to mutate your disease and give it a level 6 symptom. It is made by mixing liquid plasma with virus food. Level 6 symptoms are the strongest active symptoms available without uranium or Highly Unstable Virus Food
• Highly Unstable Virus Food: Highly Unstable Virus Food can be used to mutate your disease and give it a level 9 symptom. You only get one unit, but every single level nine symptom is insanely powerful in its own way. If you are a traitor, or you get Bee Infection, the symptom you get will likely define the disease you make on any given round

Uranium Gels

These chemicals require large quantities of liquid uranium (obtained by grinding uranium bars). You'll require the help of mining to make these.

• Decaying Uranium Gel: Decaying Uranium Gel can be used to mutate your disease and give it a level 6 or 7 symptom. It is made by combining 1 virus food with 1 liquid Uranium. Efficient compared to Unstable gel, but slower to use.
• Unstable Uranium Gel: Unstable Uranium Gel can be used to mutate your disease and give it a level 7 symptom. It is made by combining 1 virus plasma with 5 liquid Uranium. Level 7 symptoms contain potent stat symptoms, and several esoteric symptoms.
• Stable Uranium Gel: Stable Uranium Gel can be used to mutate your disease and give it a level 8 symptom. It is made by combining 1 plasma with 10 parts liquid Uranium and 10 parts liquid silver or gold. Level 8 symptoms contain some of the most potent healing symptoms, as well as some very difficult to deal with deadly symptoms.

Synaptizine

Synaptizine, aside from being a base chemical, will remove one random symptom to any virus it comes in contact with. It's important if you intend to isolate a specific symptom. For example, if you mutate your Cold virus and it acquires the Toxic Filter symptom, you can try and add synaptizine to it to create a virus which only has the Toxic Filter symptom.

Formaldehyde

Formaldehyde will neuter one random symptom when mixed with a virus. This disables its effects while keeping the attributes intact. This is useful for meeting threshold values without making the virus deadly. NEUTER YOUR STAT SYMPTOMS, ALWAYS. UNLESS IT'S SOMETHING WITH AN EFFECT YOU ACTIVELY USE, ALL AN UNNEUTERED STAT SYMPTOM WILL DO, EVEN IF THE DISEASE IS INTENTIONALLY DEADLY, IS MAKE THE DISEASE GET NOTICED FASTER, AND, SCARE PEOPLE IF YOUR DISEASE IS GOOD, PROBABLY GETTING YOU LYNCHED. NEUTER YOUR FUCKING SYMPTOMS. YES, FEVER AND ITCHING CAN DO SLIGHT DAMAGE. NEUTER THEM ANYWAYS, DAMMIT

BABBY'S FIRST VIRUS

Eyre I, the Virologist says: "Psst, hey kid. Over here. Look at you, still fresh off the arrivals shuttle. Take the biosuit off, it'll only slow you down. Listen up- I'm here to teach ya exactly how to get robust at Virology, provided you can wrap your head around some simple concepts. I've hijacked this outdated nanotrasen standard-issue virology guide to teach YOU how to be a better Virologist than those Nanotrasen quacks!"

Alright, since most people can't seem to grasp it: Virology is fucking SLOW! So this means you're gonna want to do a few things to make it faster!

1. Know what virus you want to make! I cannot fucking stress this enough. Random symptom isolation will never get you anywhere fast. The best way to pick a virus, especially as an antagonist, is to use your Highly Unstable Virus Food, and see what symptom you got. If you can work with it (Non antags can typically only work with beesease), you should base your disease off of it. Otherwise, have a set recipe ready! If you're new to viro, it doesnt hurt to experiment- Start by isolating a few level six (or three if you're into that kinda thing) symptoms. they're the most potent symptoms available at roundstart. After you decide on your active symptom(s), usually no more than two, you can get to work on stats- remember a virus can only have SIX symptoms! After you've experimented a bit, you may want to branch into level seven, eight, nine, and zero symptoms- these are a bit harder to get, but they tend to be a bit more potent.

2. You'll need five beakers when you get started making your virus:

• Fill the first beaker to the brim with virus food and put it on the table. This is for level one and two symptoms.
• Fill the second beaker with thirty units of virus food, and dump your entire mutagen bottle in. This is for level three symptoms.
• There is no beaker for level four symptoms. Four is an unlucky number or some shit, and, more importantly, all level four symptoms suck
• Fill the third beaker with ten units virus food, ten units Plasma, and then ten units of Synaptazine. This is for level five symptoms. THE ORDER IS IMPORTANT. PUT SYNAPTAZINE IN BEFORE PLASMA AND YOU'LL GET A BEAKER OF VIRUS RATIONS AND PLASMA, WASTING YOUR CHEMS. DONT DO IT.
• Fill the fourth beaker with ten units virus food and ten units of Plasma. This is for level six symptoms
• If you have the clown's can of laughter, you can fill a fifth beaker with ten units of virus food and the entire can of laughter for level zero symptoms

3. Lay out your Formaldehyde, Synaptazine, and Unstable Virus Food.

4. Finally, set an empty beaker out, and either Rhinovirus or the Cold. The Cold's symptom is Coughing, and Rhinovirus is Sneezing. I am a plasmaman, so all my diseases need high transmission- I prefer to set out rhinovirus.

5. Whichever symptom you choose to start with, drop a drop of formaldehyde in immediately! this neuters the symptom so your plague doesnt alert and scare people, which is bad regardless of your antag status. Remember to use your dropper, after setting it to one unit!

6. After you lay out your beakers on the table near the pandemic, situate yourself on a tile adjacent to the tables containing the reagents and your PANDEMIC machine. You will never have to move during this procedure- which saves valuable time.

7. With your recipe in mind, begin placing one unit of your starting symptom culture and one unit of the virus chem corresponding to your disease into the empty beaker. Do NOT place your virus chem into your culture, or your culture into your chem- it will set you back by an insane amount!. After you make ONE reaction, place the empty beaker in the pandemic-You never need to pick any beakers but this empty beaker up during the process- and check the symptoms. If you got what you wanted, create a culture, save your previous culture if it's the starter, you will need it later, or get rid of it if it's a random step in the process, and repeat with the chem for the next symptom, doing symptoms you will neuter first and neutering them as you get them. Repeat until you reach a total of four symptoms. To reiterate step five, ALWAYS use a one unit dropper! it makes you far more efficient with chem usage- if you use a dropper, your starting chems will usually last an entire round!

8. Upon reaching four symptoms, a virus has a chance to lose symptoms on gaining new ones. To avoid this, make a culture of your four symptoms, name it, and put it aside. Take your starter culture out, and begin the step 7 process. Once you get the fifth symptom, use the step seven process with synaptazine to remove the starter symptom, and finally repeat the step seven process one last time to get the last symptom. By now, you should have two cultures- one with four symptoms, and one with two (or one, five symptom diseases exist)

9. Finally, repeat the step seven process one more time, but using the two cultures, instead of a chem and a culture. There is no reaction sound for this mixing! Once you reach the desired number of symptoms (yes, adding symptoms via mixing can delete symptoms just like adding them via chems does), name the virus, and make a culture! you're done! yay!

Understanding stats

After you're done mixing your disease, stats from the symptoms are added together to make disease stats. Viruses have a default of 0 in every stat.

• Stealth: If stealth is 2 or higher your disease will be hidden from medHUD and scanners. Generally it will also hide the warning signs of symptoms before they activate.
• Transmission: Improves the chance each tick to spread the virus, increases the amount of protection you need to prevent infection, determines the infection vector, and is needed to override other viruses.
  • The infection vector is calculated with (disease's transmission - amount of symptoms). 2 or less is blood, 3 is fluid contact, 4 is skin contact, 5 is airbone. The Sneezing symptom forces sporadic airborne spreads, but does not otherwise affect this.
  • When infecting someone who already has a virus, if the infecting virus' Transmission is higher than the other virus' Resistance, the latter will be overridden by the former.
• Stage speed: Increases the chance of advancing a stage each tick. It will be 2% or stage speed, whichever is higher.
• Resistance: Makes the virus harder to cure; determines the required chemical to cure, decreases the chance of it being cured each tick when in contact with the cure, and defines how resistant the virus is to being overridden by other viruses.
• Severity: A hidden statistic. The symptom with the highest severity defines the virus' severity; it affects the color of the medHUD icon, ranging from blue for positive viruses, to flashing red for extremely deadly diseases.
  • The chance of it being cured every tick is 15 - resistance, but always between 10 and 20.
  • The cure is determined by [resistance - (amount of symptoms / 2)].

1 or less	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11 or more
Table Salt	Sugar	Orange juice	Spaceacillin	Saline-Glucose Solution	Ethanol	Leporazine	Synaptizine	Lipolicide	Silver	Gold

Symptoms Table

Eyre I, the Virologist says: "Mouse over the names of some of the symptoms- I've left you some advice and useful info. I've also left some similar advice on certain aspects of symptoms that either dont work properly, or need elaboration."

Hover over the thresholds to see the effects of each.

Symptom	Stealth	Resistance	Stage speed	Transmission	Level	Required Chemical	Effect	Threshold (hover mouse over for details)
Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome	-2	0	-1	-2	9	Highly Unstable Virus Food	Causes heavy suffocation damage, while giving a small chance of heart attacks. Becomes even more lethal if the mob has more than 120 suffocation damage.	Stage Speed 8, Transmission 8
Alopecia	0	1	2	2	4	Unstable Mutagen/Sucrose Agar	Causes rapid hair loss.	None
Alkali perspiration	2	-2	-2	-2	9	Highly Unstable Virus Food	Causes the affected mob to burst into flames periodically. !Makes victims explode on contact with water.	Resistance 9, Stage Speed 8, Transmission 8
Autophageocytosis Necrosis	-2	-2	1	-2	9	Highly Unstable Virus Food	Causes the mob's cells to decay rapidly, causing brute damage, constant bleeding and elevated hunger.	Stage Speed 7, Stealth 5
Bee Infestation	-2	2	1	1	9	Highly Unstable Virus Food	Infests the host's stomach with bees, causing minor toxin damage and bee-filled coughs.	Resistance 14
Choking	-3	-2	-2	-4	3	Unstable Mutagen/Mutagenic Agar	Causes spikes of oxygen deprivation. Deals damage based on stage speed and stealth.	Stage Speed 8, Stealth 4
Coughing	-1	3	1	2	1	Virus Food/Virus Rations	Causes coughing. Spreads the virus if it's airborne.	Resistance 3, Resistance 10, Stage Speed 6, Stealth 4
Confusion	1	-1	-3	0	4	Unstable Mutagen/Sucrose Agar	Makes the affected mob be confused for short periods of time, making them walk in random directions.	Resistance 6, Transmission 6, Stealth 4
Deafness	-1	-2	-1	-3	4	Unstable Mutagen/Sucrose Agar	Causes intermittent loss of hearing.	Resistance 9, Stealth 4
Deoxyribonucleic Acid Saboteur	-2	-3	0	-3	6	Plasma/Virus Plasma	Gives a random disability. The disabilities are cured when the disease is cured.	Stage Speed 10, Resistance 8, Stealth 5
Dizziness	0	-2	-3	-1	4	Unstable Mutagen/Sucrose Agar	Shakes the affected mob's screen for short periods. (Bugged: Currently only displays an annoying message)	Transmission 6, Stealth 4
Ducatopod	-4	-2	4	2	9	Highly Unstable Virus Food	Causes the host to secrete industrial grade lubricant from their feet.	Transmission 10, Resistance 12
Eternal Youth	3	4	4	-4	5	Plasma/Weakened Virus Plasma	Makes you never physically older than young adulthood and prevents death by old age. !Should be used for buffing your disease.	None
Facial Hypertrichosis	0	3	2	1	4	Unstable Mutagen/Sucrose Agar	Makes you grow a massive beard, regardless of gender.	None
Fever	0	3	3	2	2	Virus Food	Heats up your body. Will not reach damaging levels of heat unless resistance thresholds are met.	Resistance 5, Resistance 10
Hallucigen	-2	-3	-3	-1	5	Plasma/Weakened Virus Plasma	Makes the affected mob have hallucinations for short periods of time. Available in Virus Crates.	Stage Speed 7, Stealth 4
Headache	-1	4	2	0	1	Virus Food/Virus Rations	Displays an annoying message! Should be used for buffing your disease.	Stage Speed 6, Stage Speed 9, Stealth 4
Inorganic Biology	-1	4	-2	3	5	Plasma/Weakened Virus Plasma	The virus becomes able to affect inorganic species, such as Golems or Plasmamen. Infecting them with blood transmission will still not work though since they don't have blood. The disease must have a transmission of at least fluids to be spread to them, and must be spread by either eating, touch, or, for plasmamen, breathing.	None
Hyphema	-1	-4	-4	-3	5	Plasma/Weakened Virus Plasma	Inflicts eye damage over time. Causes blindness if left unchecked.	Resistance 12, Stealth 4
Irradiant Cells	-3	2	-1	-1	8	Stable Uranium Gel	The host's cells destabilize, causing them to become radioactive and take radiation damage	Transmission 12Stage Speed 8
Itching	0	3	3	1	1	Virus Food/Virus Rations	Displays an annoying message. Should be used for buffing your disease. Can do slight brute damage if the stage speed threshold is met.	Transmission 6, Stage Speed 7
Metabolic Boost	-1	-2	2	1	7	Unstable Uranium Gel	Doubles the host's metabolism speed, making them process chems much faster than normal, but also increasing their hunger tenfold.	Stealth 3, Stage Speed 10
Mind Restoration	-1	-2	1	-3	5	Plasma/Virus Plasma	The virus strengthens the bonds between neurons, reducing the duration of any ailment of the mind. Heals brain damage, and can cure mild and heavy traumas if upgraded.	Resistance 6, Resistance 9, Transmission 8
Nano-symbiosis	0	2	2	-1	7	Unstable Uranium Gel	The virus reacts to nanites in the host's bloodstream by enhancing their replication cycle.	Stage Speed 7, Transmission 5
Narcolepsy	-1	-2	-3	-4	6	Plasma/Virus Plasma	Makes the host drowsy and prone to falling asleep randomly.	Transmission 7, Resistance 10
Necrotic Metabolism	2	-2	1	0	5	Plasma/Weakened Virus Plasma	The virus becomes able to affect undead races.	None
Necrotizing Fasciitis	-3	-4	0	-4	6	Plasma/Virus Plasma	Causes brute damage over time. Fatal if left untreated.	Resistance 7, Transmission 8
Neural Decay	1	-2	-3	-1	8	Stable Uranium Gel	The host's brain begins to die, dealing high brain damage	Resistance 10
Nocturnal Regeneration	2	-1	-2	-1	6	Plasma/Virus Plasma	Heals brute and burn damage if the host is not currently exposed to light. Heals brute damage more quickly than burn damage.	Stage Speed 8
Pierrot's Throat	-1	3	1	2	0	Anomalous Virus Food	The host honks occasionally	Transmission 10, Resistance 10, Resistance 15
Plasma Fixation	0	3	-2	-2	8	Stable Uranium Gel	The host absorbs plasma in the air and in their bloodstream, using it to stabilize their temperature and heal brute, burn, and toxin damage.	Transmission 6, Stage Speed 7
Radioactive Resonance	-1	-2	0	-3	6	Plasma/Virus Plasma	Heals brute, burn, and toxin damage while the host is irradiated. Higher radiation levels increase the healing speed.	Transmission 6, Increases healing speed
Regenerative Coma	0	2	-3	-2	8	Stable Uranium Gel	Causes the host to fall into a death-like coma when heavily damaged, then rapidly cures their wounds.	Stealth 2, Stage Speed 7
Revitiligo	1	2	1	2	5	Plasma/Weakened Virus Plasma	Makes the host black. Every virologist's first joke plague. No one finds it funny anymore.	None
Self-Respiration	1	-3	-3	-4	6	Plasma/Virus Plasma	Quickly heals oxygen damage, negating the need for air.	Resistance 8
Sensory Restoration	0	1	-2	2	4	Unstable Mutagen/Sucrose Agar	Restores mob's senses by fixing eye and ear damage and curing hallucinations.	None
Shivering	0	2	2	2	2	Virus Food	Cools down your body. Won't reach damaging levels unless thresholds are met.	Stage Speed 5, Stage Speed 10
Silicolysis	0	4	-1	1	7	Unstable Uranium Gel	The virus reacts to nanites in the host's bloodstream by attacking and consuming them.	Stage Speed 5, Resistance 7
Sneezing	-2	3	0	4	1	Virus Food/Virus Rations	Causes the mob to occasionally sneeze.	Transmission 9, Stealth 4
Spontaneous Combustion	1	-4	-4	-4	6	Plasma/Virus Plasma	Sets your body on fire periodically, with amount of stacks based on stage speed, minus stealth.	Stage Speed 4, Stage Speed 8, Transmission 8, Stealth 4
Starlight Condensation	-1	-2	0	1	6	Plasma/Virus Plasma	Heals brute, burn, and toxin damage while exposed to starlight. Heals toxin more efficiently. Actually being in space intensifies the effect.	Stage Speed 6, Transmission 6
Tissue Hydration	0	-1	0	1	6	Plasma/Virus Plasma	Heals brute and burn damage if the host drank water recently, or if they're wet. Heals burn damage more efficiently.	Resistance 5, Stage Speed 7
Toxolysis	0	-2	-2	-2	7	Unstable Uranium Gel	Purges all chemicals at a fast rate from the bloodstream.	Resistance 7, Stage Speed 6
Viral Evolutionary Acceleration	-2	-3	5	3	3	Unstable Mutagen/Mutagenic Agar	No effects other than its stats, which are quite useful. You'll typically have at least one of this and Viral Self-Adaptation in your disease.	None
Viral Self-Adaptation	3	5	-3	0	3	Unstable Mutagen/Mutagenic Agar	No effects other than its stats, which are quite useful. You'll typically have at least one of this and Viral Evolutionary Acceleration in your disease.	None
Vitiligo	2	0	3	1	5	Plasma/Weakened Virus Plasma	Makes the mob lose skin pigmentation.	None
Voice Change	-1	-2	-2	2	6	Plasma/Virus Plasma	Changes the voice of the affected mob. Causing confusion in communication. Available in Virus Crates.	Transmission 14, Stage Speed 7, Stealth 3
Vomiting	-2	-1	0	1	3	Unstable Mutagen/Mutagenic Agar	Forces the affected mob to vomit! Makes the affected mob lose nutrition and heal toxin damage. Vomit can transmit the virus to people stepping on it.	Resistance 7, Transmission 7, Stealth 4
Weight Loss	-2	2	-2	-2	3	Unstable Mutagen/Mutagenic Agar	The virus mutates the host's metabolism, making it almost unable to gain nutrition from food.	Stealth 4
Wizarditis	1	-2	-3	-1	0	Anomalous Virus Food	The host believes themselves to be a wizard	Transmission 14, Stage Speed 7

General Tips

• You can get plasma and uranium from the medical autolathe if mining has picked it up. No need to waste time going to the ORM.
• The clown will typically be happy to give you his canned laughter for Anomalous Virus Food
• Never make sucrine agar unless you absolutely need a level four symptom for some ungodly reason
• If you wear the biosuit, you're an idiot. The only time you need to wear that is when working with patients or monkeys, and it slows you down. If you release a disease as a traitor, you should have immunized yourself beforehand- a biosuit sticks out like a sore thumb
• ALWAYS make your diseases beforehand. Have a recipe ready to work with any given symptom. This is the MOST IMPORTANT part of being good at virology.
• Never use pure mutagen or pure plasma. Always make virus chems, it doubles your efficiency.
• If you want to kill a single person instead of the whole station, use chemicals instead of viruses- they're more effective than a single-host virus. Unless you rolled Bee Infection- release a resistance 14 bee plague , and inject your mark with mint toxin a few minutes later!
• Single person oriented beneficial diseases are superior to beneficial diseases with high transmission, as they can have higher stats without worrying about transmission. Unless you're a Plasmaman.
• Stealth below 2 is useless. Stealth above 2 is largely unecessary unless you need to meet a threshold or you don't want to be valided- If you neuter your symptoms properly, your disease will not be noticed by anyone other than doctors with medhuds.

The Black Death

Being a traitor virologist allows you to finally come out of your shell and release those negative recipes you've been aching to test, and put those level nine symptoms to the true test!

• Sabotaging the Pandemic is usually a good idea, as it can create a vaccine for a cured virus which is cheap and easy to distribute, even if the virus is extremely resistant.
• Sabotaging the holodeck computer is also a good idea because its Emergency Medical simulation also contains a Pandemic.
• Sabotaging chemistry can stop them from making most of the chems that can cure viruses.
• A dropper works as a 1-5 unit hypospray when used on a target not wearing any eye protection.
• An infected monkey in medbay is another easy way to spread a disease
• Immunize yourself before releasing your death plague!

RECIPES

Eyre I, the Virologist says: "Now here's the juice! i'm gonna leave you with a few simple virus recipes and such! I wont teach ya the best shit, but ill teach ya to maximize what ya got"

Plague Template Thissun's simple. It's a good base to make for *most* contagious diseases- just slap your active symptom and another to meet the thresholds, and presto! If you wanna max shit, though, sometimes you gotta think outside the box. It has abysmal stealth and the stage speed tends to flop on reaching thresholds Sneezing(Neutered) Fever(Neutered) Viral Evolutionary Acceleration Inorganic Biology

"Condom Control" I whipped this disease up quite quickly one day when the captain was being a condom and ended up tied up in viro. didnt wanna kill him or strip him- so i made this to neutralize his ass. He ghosted soon after. This is just one example- this disease is mostly just maxed Pierrot's throat. it can be done in many ways. This wasnt even the recipe i used when i made it

Pierrot's Throat

Eternal Youth

Viral Self Adaptation

Inorganic Biology

Fever(Neutered)

Pagliacci Complex Lol it makes everyone a clown. Cure yourself and wear magboots

Ducatopod

Pierrot's Throat

Inorganic Biology

Fever(Neutered)

Viral Self-Adaptation

Sneezing(Neutered)

Beneficial Special A disease that makes use of Ducatod's stage speed to create a beneficial, threshold-meeting disease both plasmamen and normies can enjoy.