How is the infection transmitted?
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Bites
The main avenue the plague spreads in Port Steward, the location in Endemic: Rise of the Plague, is through bites. There are other ways that it can be spread, but they are far less effective of transmitting the disease than a bite. The virus is communicable through bodily fluids, similarly to a strain of Herpes.
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Scratches
You can contract the infection via scratch. In order to get infected, the scratch must break the skin of the victim and the offending zombie must have had infected blood or saliva—either under the nail or on the hand to enter through the broken skin. A zombie drooling into the open scratch has the potential to transmit the disease as well.
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Ingestion
Ingestion of infected fluids will not transmit the disease. Once the fluids enter the stomach, the stomach acid destroys the virus. However, if one should have an open wound, such as a cut or a sore in the mouth, throat or anywhere the fluids travel on their way to the stomach, their probability of transmission remains extremely high.
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Exposure to Eyes
Blood splatter or saliva entering a victim through the eyes will not communicate the disease, unless there is an open wound on the inner eyelids or on the eye itself.
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Bites remain the most common way that the plague is spread. But infected blood or saliva making contact with open lesions or cuts is also a commonplace. As long as cuts are bandaged securely, it should keep out any splatter that comes your way. The best option is to avoid zombies at all costs. It’s a strange and dangerous new world out there, be safe.
