Infection

Description
 may be contracted if you are hit by a Zombie. It has three stages of progression which will eventually lead to death if not treated. Getting further hits by zombies will increase the infection level.

It is possible to treat an  with the use of Antibiotics. It is easier to contract if you have low health than if you have high health.

Infection Stages
is a negative buff that is part of the four stages of infection.  will progress through the following three stages.

Stage 1
You are infected, but have no negative affects applied. You can use any of these items to heal you: Antibiotics, Jar of Honey, or Herbal Antibiotics.
 * Duration 1 hour in real time, or up to 14% of the gauge.

Stage 2
Your Infection is progressing, use Antibiotics, Jar of Honey, or Herbal Antibiotics to heal.
 * -25% Stamina recovery.
 * -0.25 Wellness every 100 in-game seconds.
 * 25 Entity Damage every 2100 in-game seconds.
 * Duration 3 hours in real time, or up to 57% of the gauge.

Stage 3
You are dying, use Antibiotics, Jar of Honey, or Herbal Antibiotics to heal.
 * -35% Stamina recovery.
 * -0.25 Wellness every 100 in-game seconds.
 * 25 Entity Damage every 800 in-game seconds.
 * -1 to all attributes.
 * Duration 3 hours in real time, or up to 100% of the gauge.

Death

 * If you do not use Antibiotics by the end of stage three you will die.

Note: Damage is different from health, damage can be mitigated by armour or other effect, health is a direct effect on the characters health.

Healing
It is possible to treat  by using various infection-curing items.The infection is slowly cured by a cure buff (needs a wiki page), given by these items:
 * Jar of Honey will cure 5% of Infection.
 * Herbal Antibiotics will cure 10% of Infection, as well as all stages of Dysentery.
 * Antibiotics will cure 25% of Infection, and will halve the stamina recovery debuff.