Neutralizing fully-infected subjects requires significant cranial trauma. They will energetically move towards sights, sounds, and smells it associates with living humans and will attempt to ingest them if physical contact is made. The subject can adapt to its damaged nervous systems but is limited to basic physical activities, including standing up, balancing on two legs, walking, biting, grabbing, and crawling. The body's metabolism may decrease to extremely low levels, allowing the subject to survive for over 10 years without nutrition.

The red blood cells inside the victim's body greatly increase oxygen storage capacity, resulting in slower blood flow and increased muscle endurance and strength. When a person is fully infected with SCP-008, their body undergoes a period of sporadic cellular necrosis, with the surviving tissue assuming its original function while being highly resilient. SCP-008 and its side-effects can be cured completely by consuming an SCP-500 pill or using SCP-427, with the latter happening over a period which increases the more the player has been affected.Ī subject that is fully infected with SCP-008 is referred to as an infected. Shortly after the final message is displayed, the player will black out, becoming infected. More messages will continue to display to signify the player's fading condition. The longer the player is infected with SCP-008, the more predominant the red in the player's vision will become and the louder the auditory hallucinations become. When this occurs, the message ' The window shattered and a piece of glass cut your arm.' will display, and the player will contract the SCP-008 prion.Ī second message will appear reading, ' You feel kinda feverish.'. If the player is not wearing the Hazmat Suit, which can be acquired in the small chamber before 008's chamber, and has yet to close the canister, they will be wounded by a flying piece of glass. The canister may be closed, which will stop the gas from flowing however, SCP-173 will eventually break through the glass to kill the player.

SCP-173 will spawn in the control room adjacent to the chamber of the canister. Upon entering the chamber, the player will find the canister containing the SCP-008 samples open and releasing gas. SCP-008's containment chamber can be found in the Heavy Containment Zone. SCP-500 has been recorded to completely cure the effects of SCP-008, even in the advanced stages of the disease.

Transmission through exposed mucous membranes and all bodily fluids.

SCP-008 is a complex prion, the research of which is highly classified and primarily aimed at preventing research which may lead to the synthesis of SCP-008 in the distant future.

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