Virus

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Virii are assorted types of disease, infection or malady which can be contracted, suffered and spread around the station. There are many different kinds of virus, and they often come into play via a number of different ways, the most common being Random Events. Virii can be detected in a person by using a Health Analyser on them - information will be shown such as the name of the virus, how it spreads, how far the infection has progressed, and what can be done to cure it.

Known Viruses

Name	Causes (primary)	Spread	Cure	Danger Level	Effects
Common cold	Random event	Airborne	Sleep	Harmless	Coughing and sneezing.
The flu	Random event	Airborne	Sleep	Minor	Coughing, sneezing, minor toxin damage.
Food poisoning	Tainted food	Non-contagious	Sleep	Minor	Vomiting, random stuns.
Clowning around	Random event	Non-contagious	Spaceacillin	Minor	Slowly turning into a clumsy clown. A variant of this virus transforms people into cluwnes instead.
Space madness	Random event	Airborne	Haloperidol	Dangerous	Loss of sanity.
Berserker	Random event	Contact	Haloperidol	Dangerous	Swearing, shouting, attacking nearly crew members uncontrollably.
Teleportitis	Unknown	Non-contagious	Electric shock	Dangerous	Teleporting around randomly, including walls and tiles exposed to vacuum.
MRSA	Open wounds	Non-contagious	Spaceacillin	Dangerous	Rapidly accumulating toxin and brute damage in later stages.
Robotic transformation	Roburger	Non-contagious	Electric shock	Dangerous	Minor brute damage, occasional paralysis, turning into a cyborg.
Necrotic degeneration	Zombies	Contact	Styptic powder injection	Dangerous	Minor toxin damage, occasional paralysis, turning into a zombie.
GBS	Unknown	Non-contagious	Cryoxadone	Deadly	Toxin damage, exploding into gibs. A fake and largely harmless version exists, which is usually airborne.
Space AIDS	Unknown	Non-contagious	Incurable	Deadly	Toxin damage, randomly contracting other diseases.
Grave Fever	Vampires	Non-contagious	Spaceacillin	Deadly	Severe toxin damage, paralysis, death.
Space kuru	Cannibalism	Non-contagious	Incurable	Deadly	Escalating toxin damage, uncontrollable laughing and seizures, death.

Infection Methods

Contagious virii currently spread mostly through two means - Airborne transmission and Contact transmission. In the case of both Airborne and Contact transmitted virii, the infection vector is external - this means that wearing clothing that protects against disease (mostly a full biosuit and internals) will protect you from infection. Absolute protection from external infections can be achieved by wearing a sufficient amount of gear - as long as you don't take any of it off or inject/eat anything strange, you won't have to worry about infections at all.

Contact

Contact transmission means that if you touch the infected person in some way, you'll catch the virus from them. Contact means bumping into them, attacking them, taking or putting items onto them, and helping/disarming/grabbing/punching them. Note that this works both ways in all cases - an infectee can infect someone else by punching them, or someone uninfected can catch the disease by punching the infected.

Airborne

Airborne transmission just requires you to be near the person. You don't even have to be right next to them, just being within a certain range means you run a high risk of infection if you remain in their presence. This infection vector also affects any gibs or blood spilled by the infected - if someone with airborne GBS explodes, going near their gibs will get you infected.

Other Vectors

The virii you're most likely to catch overall are the contagious ones described above, but that doesn't mean you should discount non-contagious virii as a threat. Consuming spoiled, badly cooked, poisoned or special kinds of food or drink can result in an infection, as can being injected with a viral reagent (willingly or otherwise). In these cases, protective clothing won't help you - since the virus is already inside you, you can't stop the infection. Whoops!

Cures

So you've been infected with something - what can you do to stop it? This largely depends on the virus itself. Some virii have a common cure between them, while others have a unique cure that only works for them. The common cures will be covered here - the other ones you'll have to puzzle out for yourself (though to be fair, they're not exactly difficult to figure out).

Sleep

Simple - just go to sleep somewhere. The virus will recede until it is cured completley. It would probably be best not to go to sleep in a busy area, unless you like getting mugged while you take a nap.

Antibiotics

Go to Medbay and get an injection of Spaceacillin. The virus will begin to recede after you get your injection - spaceacillin tends to work quite quickly. Other reagents may count as an antibiotic influence - experiment and find out!

Electric Shock

Get zapped by something - the stronger the source, the more likely it is to cure your disease. Cables, machinery, and rambunctious security may be able to help you here.

Beatings/Burnings

You just have to take a lot of brute or fire damage, respectively. This can easily be done to yourself, but make sure not to overdo it!

Prevention

Much like reality, often the best way to stop yourself from catching a virus is to not catch it in the first place. This can be achieved by wearing protective gear in the case of Airborne and Contact virii (as described above) or through other means. Resistances can be obtained by curing some other diseases through their usual means - not all diseases will grant resistance when overcome, however.

Incurable Diseases

Though very rare, some diseases flat out cannot be gotten rid of once contracted. If "cured", the virus will simply re-establish itself some time later, ignoring any resistances you might have. Your only hope of defeating these diseases is to not catch them - once contracted, they stay with you until the end of the round. Death or robotisation are the only ways to escape.