Stopping cure?

[Liquid Epstein]

Anyone know how to stop a cure while as a bacteria? No matter how much resistance i get, the cure just grows rapidly. Anybody know how?

[Alaskan Catfish Hike]

Saudi Arabia, air 1, water 1, birds 1, maybe coughing though trying to be asymptomatic, cold 1; and wait until the world is infected until you have ~120 points and then go insane.

You can also have for transmission blood and insect 1.

[ZillerKY]

Symptoms can help too, insanity can massively hurt the cure, reshuffles are good as well.

[Liquid Epstein]

I really hate you greenland.

[Liquid Epstein]

GREEEEEEEEENNLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAND

[Wayward]

You can't stop it completely, only get it so that the remaining research time for the cure is more or less equivalent to eternity..... Also, always start with water transmission, because that way you have a better chance of hitting those pesky islands faster before they close the borders (Greenland....)

My quick and dirty guide for bacteria on normal:
Start in India
Water 1
Water 2
Drug Resistance 1
Cold resistance 1 (then it will at least start to spread if you reach a cold country, although slowly)
Air 1
Air 2
Extreme Bioaresol
Genetic Hardening 1
Genetic Hardening 2 (genetic hardening is optional, but it slows the cure)
Birds 1&2 is nice for spreading in countries like Canada and Greenland (optional)
Insects 1 is nice for spreading in Africa (optional)
Then it's just about going nuts with the symptoms, to make the cure slow down, go to insomnia and go up from there, both to the left and towards the middle. The symptoms that delays the cure goes up to insanity and coma. The lung symptoms (upper middle) are nice for spreading in cold countries with low population density. Finally you got rash, which leads to sweat, skin lessions, Necrosis (quite lethal), Immune suppression and total organ failure.

You want to have every country infected, with 50%+ infected in each country, except for greenland and canada, where you'd want it to be higher before you start raising lethality. You will finish quicker this way, but if you are way too aggressive with lethality you'll end up losing instead. In other words, keep a close eye on how fast you're killing if you do as I do and bump up lethality before everyone's infected......

[Shame!]

Just a tip, russia and finland are top traders woth greenland and send boats every like, 12 seconds. Infect russia before greenland or russia shuts down its shipyards

[Warlol]

It's also a good idea to refund symptoms that come out of mutations early game, especially if it's your 3rd symptom or if it's one that is closer to the middle (those tend to be more noticeable/deadly). A few harmless symptoms early game are ok because they increase transmission, but it's likely that the bacteria itself will mutate to get those, since you'll be dumping more points into transmissions.

[The Lost Ranger]

this helped me and works pretty good
http://ashleign.hubpages.com/hub/How-to-beat-Plague-Inc-on-Bacteria-Level

[Tixium]

Mega Brutal on bacteria was pretty unforgiving, so normal is pretty easy