how do one cure the new sickness caught when using non disinfected bandages?

[Lolo]

Hi,
I understand that the new update introduced a new "sickess" that may be caught when using non-disinfected rag/bandage to cut bleeding. My understanding is that this newly implemented health state gradually lowers the survivor's health level and end up killing them.

How can I cure this ?
thanks

[Ranceed]

Tetracycline will cure a wound infection. It will drain your water fast, so drink plenty.

[Sams]

Also disinfecting the wounds within ~30 minutes will work, After that the sickness will move to stage 2 where only antibiotics cure it.

[Enforcer]

As mentioned above you can use any of the two desinfectants available or iodine to treat the wound directly. You will need to apply it a few times and this is an assumption -> the amount depends on how long you had it infected.

[2High2tell]

The iodine seems to work fairly well. I got the infection, even tho. I am fairly (not 100%) but fairly sure I had disinfected my bandages. SO I got sick, took some tect. pills. did not work. Found iodine, used right away. (been sick about 10 mins now) popped 1 more tect. and was fixed within 1 min.

Now Iodine is part of my main inv. I am not sure if it is better or the same as the alcohol or disinfected spray.. But it worked.

[Enforcer]

Originally posted by 2High2tell:

The iodine seems to work fairly well. I got the infection, even tho. I am fairly (not 100%) but fairly sure I had disinfected my bandages. SO I got sick, took some tect. pills. did not work. Found iodine, used right away. (been sick about 10 mins now) popped 1 more tect. and was fixed within 1 min.

Now Iodine is part of my main inv. I am not sure if it is better or the same as the alcohol or disinfected spray.. But it worked.

I'm going to check that shortly. Since i now have set up my video capturing to good quality i can provide "real time" evidence of what is true and what not.
The plan is to let the zombies draw blood and bandage 6 times without disinfected rags and bandage 6 times with disinfected rags. Using rags never gave be an infection since they are always spawning in a disinfected state.
Keep in mind even though you disinfected the rags they canose their disinfected state when they are damaged. Putting them into a protective case makes sense. I also haven't checked if the disinfectant is washed out when they get wet repeatedly since i carry them in the dry bag backpack with my matches to keep them dry.

[2High2tell]

Well I rolled tonight and got cut about 10 times. Used bandages that were doused with disinfectant. Not a single infection.

[Enforcer]

I wanted to make a longer video but the zombies are so weak the chances of getting a cut were so low they would rather knock me down than draw blood. In the end i resorted to self harm.
So i just made a shorter version but the outcome is obvious as i already mentioned what the cause for an infection is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUd8MqiDfHU
At the very end you can see that i bandaged myself 3 times with unsterile rags but only got the infection on the 3rd try. So much for "EVERY TIME". BUSTED!

[2High2tell]

Originally posted by Enforcer:

I wanted to make a longer video but the zombies are so weak the chances of getting a cut were so low they would rather knock me down than draw blood. In the end i resorted to self harm.
So i just made a shorter version but the outcome is obvious as i already mentioned what the cause for an infection is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUd8MqiDfHU
At the very end you can see that i bandaged myself 3 times with unsterile rags but only got the infection on the 3rd try. So much for "EVERY TIME". BUSTED!

TY. I did not think it was every time. It would be a death sentence for many players. So there is roughly a 10% chance of infection. Now next... I wonder if higher tier zzs have a greater chance of infecting you?

[Faitheal]

Originally posted by Enforcer:

I wanted to make a longer video but the zombies are so weak the chances of getting a cut were so low they would rather knock me down than draw blood. In the end i resorted to self harm.
So i just made a shorter version but the outcome is obvious as i already mentioned what the cause for an infection is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUd8MqiDfHU
At the very end you can see that i bandaged myself 3 times with unsterile rags but only got the infection on the 3rd try. So much for "EVERY TIME". BUSTED!

Did you happen to consider that it takes a moment for the actual infection to set in and that maybe you were guaranteed to get it after bandaging the first time ? That was not a great test. re-test please.

[Enforcer]

I did. The infection sets in basically immediately if it triggers. It doesn't take minutes, just seconds.

[Mr.Moo]

So not being able to disinfect water bottles either with alcohol or disinfectant. Yet still get the unclean bug when drinking chlorinated water. Hello?! Devs?!