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Zombie Contagion

This mod offers a semi-realistic simulation of infection spread between players. You may be immune to the dead's airborne virus, but the virus emitted by those in the pre-death stage is very different...

While the exact details of the virus are unknown, the CDC announced the following:

• Masks are very effective at slowing the spread of the disease.
  
• Infectiousness increases as the disease progresses - freshly infected hosts offer almost no threat to healthy individuals, but risk grows quickly.
  
• The virus is only transmitted in very close contact.
  
• On average, transmission was observed after ten minutes of direct close contact with a late stage host. No amount of contact, no matter how brief, is safe.
  
• Although the risk is still greatly reduced, transmission can occur from a greater distance indoors.
  
• The virus may enter slightly more easily through open wounds.
  
• Gas masks were found to be ineffective when worn by the infection host, as they do not filter the exhaled air.
  
• Health history may have a significant impact on your chance to be infected.

Some survivors have been found to be immune to airborne transmissions (but not any other sources such as scratches). Unfortunately, carriers are always lightly infectious to others around them. This can be configured to either be a selectable trait (of configurable price) or to be granted randomly to new characters.

Antibodies makes the infection survivable, giving more reason to keep infected allies around, and making the airborne disease less damning without removing challenge.
Susceptible makes zombies dangerous to be around too, completing the theme of airborne infection. Zombie Contagion can be configured to only affect Susceptible characters, or to be more severe against them.
This mod should work with all modded gas masks. It will try to find modded facemasks too, but this may not be as reliable. If you want to be sure, check your logs for a list of detected facemasks (gasmasks are not listed).

Thanks to Collide for submitting some bug fixes.

This mod is inspired by OgreLeg's similar mod, but its mechanics and code are entirely original.

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Workshop ID: 2868937948
Mod ID: ZContagion
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