The onset of Rage during this period is marked by painful, uncontrollable convulsions and spasms in the extremities, bleeding from the eyes, and seemingly a rapidly-building increase in anger in the host ( 28 Days Later (film), 28 Weeks Later). However, the Rage Virus' aforementioned strengths also count as weaknesses alongside its inability to infect non-primate hosts, as they prevent the Infection from being easily or unintentionally spread overseas beyond a populated island.ДЄ human, chimp or other primate that is exposed to the Rage Virus through bodily-fluid contact of blood and/or saliva - a bite, a kiss, an injection, or infected blood getting in their eyes or mouth - will become Infected in between ten and twenty seconds.

Infected lack a sense of self-preservation, and will not act to evade or respond to mortal danger (at least not when they are in pursuit of uninfected), although it's implied they fled the fires in Manchester.Дue to the virus' easy transmission, very short incubation stage and the extreme effectiveness of the rage-fuelled, mindless vectors a single Infected can induce a severe domino effect in crowded areas, causing the Infection to spread like wildfire as the Infected rapidly multiply. Though Rage does not kill its host directly, lacking the instinctsВ to find food, the Infected do eventually die from starvation. TheВ Infected individual is driven byВ constant, rabid, all-consuming rage with a single-minded drive toВ always violentlyВ attack and pursue any uninfected individuals they find.

Highly contagious and spread through bodily fluids such as blood and saliva, the virus takes over an exposed host within ten to twenty seconds.В Symptoms includeВ constant spasming, andВ internal bleedingВ from all bodily orifices as well as haemoemesis (vomiting infectious blood).В Usually, the Infected exhibits no goal or trace of their former-selves and will not hesitate to attack former loved ones ( Donald Harris was a notable exception who experienced fragment memory flashbacks, although it did nothing to curb his aggression and seemingly motivated him further to attack hisВ loved ones). 'Infected' refers to humans who have been infected by the Rage Virus that originated in the Cambridge Primate Research Centre.

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