Editing Infections (section)

==[[virologist|Virology]] 101==
[[File:Virology.png|500px|thumb|alt=Virology|link=http://puu.sh/3EFaf.png|[[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 unless you use internals. 
* Touch - Requires you to touch, have been touched, or be extremely close to the source of the infection. Hugging someone or switching places with someone has a chance to spread 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.
* Fluid - Lets you infect someone by splashing them with the virus culture or using smoke. Works even if they have internals on. Does not work through hardsuits. 
* Blood - The infection will only be spread by ingesting infected blood.
* 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.

Any higher level infection method can infect using any lower level methods. For example, an airborne virus can spread to people with internals on by hugging 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 [[#How_to_create_a_vaccine|vaccine]], a simple injection should cure the patient.

===[[File:Pandm.gif|64px]]PanD.E.M.I.C 2200===
This machine creates [[#How_to_create_a_vaccine|vaccines]] from the blood of people who have been cured.

===How to create a vaccine===
# Take a blood sample from an already cured person, with a syringe.
# Inject that blood sample into a beaker or bottle.
# Load the beaker into the machine.
# Select the vaccine you wish to produce.
# Take vaccine bottle it produces.
# Go to chemistry or the holodeck medical emergency program (for the Chemmaster 3000) to distribute the vaccine however you like. Pills need to be at least 0.4u to work. 

Additional uses:
* Reveals the cure to any infected blood sample, even if the virus is stealthy and don't show up on medical huds.