is blood infectious?

[Jonesylad]

Zombie or regular health wise, if im soaked in zombie blood and i have a scratch can it cause infection?

[Ficelle]

Blood wont transmit you the zombie infection

Still, blood / dirty clothes are supoosed to have an effect on infecting wound (normal infection...curable)
Havent really seen it...or the effect is very small

[Steelpoint]

From what has been alleged. Having bloody clothing increases the chances of an open wound contracting an infection. A regular viral infection, not the zombie virus.

Furthermore, bloody clothing apparently makes it easier for zombies to detect and track you.

[Diarmuhnd]

My first character did not survive a zombie bite, even with antibiotics.

My 2nd character never washed or cleaned clothes. She got infected from a multiple scratches and other wounds. Sleeping in a bed that filthy should soil the sheets and make it disgusting.

So far my 3rd character has survived multiple lacerations, scratches & another wounds (dont remember what it was called, wasnt a bite). No antibiotics or other meds. Just washing my char before sleeping when bloody and all the cloths when it they get bad. I also used a pot with boiled water to make sterilized bandages instead of rags.

But now he's having trouble with high stress levels, it just keeps coming back even when nothing seems to be causing it. lol

So, i ahve no clue what PZ's math says about blood being infectious, but from my experience so far I kinda lean on the side that says, maybe it does.

[ilikecaterpillars]

Bites are always 100% to get the Knox Virus, lacerations are 25% and scratches 7%. There's no amount of antibiotics that'll save you once you are bitten. xXx

[Superintendent Chalmers]

Originally posted by Diarmuhnd:

My first character did not survive a zombie bite, even with antibiotics.

ofc it didn't, antibiotics don't cure the zombie infection, it even says as much in it's tooltip...

[Diarmuhnd]

Hmmn, it wasnt a complaint, lol, just what happend..
Whoa.. your all Zed's in need of getting Mercied.
PS: this is the first time i've played PZ... gosh

[Ficelle]

The really important part when you are wounded is to disinfect the wound and to apply clean / sterilized bandages and reapply new ones as soon as needed
Disinfection only need to be done once

Now, if you contracted the zombie virus (bites and some % of scratches / lacerations), you are dead

[ilikecaterpillars]

Originally posted by Diarmuhnd:

:GreenStrain: Hmmn, it wasnt a complaint, lol, just what happend..
Whoa.. your all Zed's in need of getting Mercied. :zedrawr:
PS: this is the first time i've played PZ... gosh :handsup:

Don't worry. Most of us can be helpful, hence some of us giving you stats and hints as to what the different injuries do. Others just presume that everyone knows the ins and outs of every game, so can be a bit more abrupt. I tend to just ignore those people, as they find it difficult to help others. 😉👍🏻 xXx

[Steelpoint]

There's been some forum discussion regarding infections and the negative traits hypochondriac, prone to illness and slow healer.

Several people are stating that after suffering a scratch, they can get sick enough to die from the sickness despite not contracting the zombie virus.

Stay healthy fellows.

[Sonny Jim]

Originally posted by Diarmuhnd:

:GreenStrain: Hmmn, it wasnt a complaint, lol, just what happend..
Whoa.. your all Zed's in need of getting Mercied. :zedrawr:
PS: this is the first time i've played PZ... gosh :handsup:

Don't worry mate, all good keeping having fun with PZ there's alot to learn!

[Herr Morlock]

Originally posted by ilikecaterpillars:

Bites are always 100% to get the Knox Virus, lacerations are 25% and scratches 7%. There's no amount of antibiotics that'll save you once you are bitten. xXx

No, they aren't. Bites have a 95% chance to give you zombie infection, not 100%...

[TheSurvivalist]

Originally posted by Spatz:

Originally posted by ilikecaterpillars:

Bites are always 100% to get the Knox Virus, lacerations are 25% and scratches 7%. There's no amount of antibiotics that'll save you once you are bitten. xXx

No, they aren't. Bites have a 95% chance to give you zombie infection, not 100%...

Not anymore, it had a 96% chance to kill you and that was a bug

[NotReally]

Originally posted by TheSurvivalist:

Originally posted by Spatz:

No, they aren't. Bites have a 95% chance to give you zombie infection, not 100%...

Not anymore, it had a 96% chance to kill you and that was a bug

I actually wish that the chance was 99%... atleast it would give us hope... false hope but still... hope.

[Ficelle]

Yep, not a fan of 100% lethal bites either

With no hope at all to salvage the character, once bitten, it is just exit and delete save
Even with 1% chance, it would be worth trying

[Spidey19355]

At this point in the game, you should just avoid getting hit all together. It’s too dangerous and risky now. I’m on a week long character at the moment and he hasn’t been hurt by a zombie once. The only wounds I’ve sustained is from me driving around like an idiot when I got a bit too happy about finding a working car lol.