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|jobtitle = Virologist
|titles=Microbiologist, Pathologist, Junior Disease Researcher, Epidemiologist, Disease Control Expert
|access = [[Virology]], [[Medbay]], Mineral Storage
|access = [[Virology]], [[Medbay]], Mineral Storage
|additional = [[Morgue]], [[Operating Theatre]], [[Chemistry]], [[Genetics]]
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|duties = Study the effects of various diseases and synthesize a vaccine for them. Engineer beneficial viruses.
|duties = Study the effects of various diseases and synthesize a vaccine for them. Engineer beneficial viruses.
|guides = [[Infections|Virology 101]], [[Guide to medicine]]
|guides = [[Infections]], [[Guide to medicine]] External virology guide [https://forums.yogstation.net/threads/your-own-pandemic.19931/]
|quote = Don’t blame me for the outbreak of “Omega Aids”. It’s the [[CMO]]’s fault for touching that monkey corpse!
|quote = Yes cmo?, I need this syringe gun for testing with monkeys, you wouldn't want it to spread would you?
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As a research station, there are a lot of departments of research; the study of space viruses is one of those research departments! Congratulations doctor, you have been selected to study and treat various types of viruses, and create valuable vaccines. So grab your [[latex gloves]] and get your [[breath mask]] on and hole yourself up in [[Virology]], it is time to perform some disease research.
As a research station, there are a lot of departments of research; the study of space viruses is one of those research departments! Congratulations doctor, you have been selected to study and treat various types of viruses, and create valuable vaccines. So grab your [[latex gloves]] and get your [[breath mask]] on and hole yourself up in [[Virology]], it is time to perform some disease research.


'''Bare minimum requirements:''' If an epidemic breaks out aboard the station, don't be the source of it.
'''Bare minimum requirements:''' If an epidemic breaks out aboard the station, don't be the source of it.
[[File:Virology.png|300px|thumb|alt=Virology|link=http://puu.sh/3EFaf.png|[[Virology|ERP Fortress]]]]<br>
[[File:Virology.png|300px|thumb|alt=Virology|link=http://puu.sh/3EFaf.png|[[Virology|ERP Fortress]]]]<br>
==Welcome Doctor==
==Welcome Doctor==
Unlike Robert Nevile, you will not have a huge kick ass adventure while curing diseases. You will have a boring time, and likely fuck up constantly. Just make sure the [[Chemist]] or the [[Chief Medical Officer]] are around (and attentive) or you won't be able to cure uncommon diseases and might have an outbreak.
Unlike Robert Nevile, you will not have a huge kick ass adventure while curing diseases. You will have a boring time, and likely fuck up constantly. Just make sure the [[Chemist]] or the [[Chief Medical Officer]] are around (and attentive) or you won't be able to cure uncommon diseases and might have an outbreak.
===[[Infections|Infecting]] Monkeys===
===[[Infections|Infecting]] Monkeys===
Primarily, this is your job. Find a batch of virus, inject a monkey, and record the results. Then cure the monkey.
Primarily, this is your job. Find a batch of virus, inject a monkey, and record the results. Then cure the monkey.
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You can also see the cure to a disease using your Pandemic machine, and reproduce it if there is an active culture in the blood, for [[Traitor#Advanced_Methods_of_Murder| whatever reason.]]
You can also see the cure to a disease using your Pandemic machine, and reproduce it if there is an active culture in the blood, for [[Traitor#Advanced_Methods_of_Murder| whatever reason.]]
===A MAN IN BRAZIL IS COUGHING!===
===A MAN IN BRAZIL IS COUGHING!===
Viruses can get loose on the station many ways: [[random events]], [[traitor]]ous activity, and the most common way of all: your own incompetence. If you accidentally infect someone with a harmful virus, well, there is not much you can do except quarantine, treat, and ensure they aren't infectious before releasing them. Make sure only people that know [[Beyond the impossible|exactly what they're doing]] can enter your room. Warn people beforehand that you're conducting experiments and remember to vaccinate yourself once you research a disease.
Viruses can get loose on the station many ways: [[random events]], [[traitor]]ous activity, and the most common way of all: your own incompetence. If you accidentally infect someone with a harmful virus, well, there is not much you can do except quarantine, treat, and ensure they aren't infectious before releasing them. Make sure only people that know exactly what they're doing can enter your room. Warn people beforehand that you're conducting experiments and remember to vaccinate yourself once you research a disease.


Viruses can be spread through blood. People with viruses will often spread blood everywhere. Do the math. Then do your job and clean up the blood.
Viruses can be spread through blood. People with viruses will often spread blood everywhere. Do the math. Then do your job and clean up the blood.
===CREATE A PANDEMIC!===
===CREATE A PANDEMIC!===
You are able to create your own diseases with various symptoms, stats and bonuses. Read [[Infections#Advanced_Diseases|this]] for a guide!
You are able to create your own diseases with various symptoms, stats and bonuses. Read [[Infections#Advanced_Diseases|this]] for a guide!
==== Symbiosis ====
==== Symbiosis ====
Viruses don't always have to be something to be avoided. With a bit of work you can engineer friendly viruses that come with a number of beneficial symptoms, such as eliminating the need to eat, or even one that lets the body regenerate its own health. Just make sure you clear it with the [[CMO]] and let the station know what your friendly virus does before releasing it, or you might find yourself at the end of a pitchfork.
Viruses don't always have to be something to be avoided. With a bit of work you can engineer friendly viruses that come with a number of beneficial symptoms, such as eliminating the need to eat, or even one that lets the body regenerate its own health. Just make sure you clear it with the [[CMO]] and let the station know what your friendly virus does before releasing it, or you might find yourself at the end of a pitchfork.
==Tips==
==Tips==
* Putting your [[Bio Suit|biohazard suit]] on speaks volumes to the trained CMO. Avoid this if you do not want them on your back.
* After viruses reach a certain stealth level, they will not appear on [[Health scanner hud|MedHUD]] interfaces and [[Health analyzer|Health analyzers]] and hide warning signs of symptoms before they activate.
* Syringes can be used to safely extract blood out of infected monkeys or humans.
* Keep a good eye on your monkeys. If they were to escape, they could spread a virus, and you would have two forces of mass anger looking upon you. A way to prevent this is by chaining the monkeys to their beds in separate rooms. If a monkey does get out, immediately inform the [[Adminhelp|gods]] and start working on making a cure.
* Virology can turn you into just as much as a superhuman as Genetics.
* Virology can turn you into just as much as a superhuman as Genetics.
* Coughing as a symptom makes people drop grabs and can thus be used to make changelings miserable as they keep dropping absorbs.
* Coughing as a symptom makes people drop grabs and can thus be used to make changelings miserable as they keep dropping absorbs.
* A perfectly made virus blend from virology can heal you at a slow, but decent rate, even out of critical condition. A person can only be infected by three viruses at a time, I believe. A virus blend that has three instances of the following symptoms will heal you from crit (assuming there is no other source of damage present), protect you from suffocation, and allow you to run at max speed even if you have a bulky exosuit with active magboots. Toxic Filter, Toxic Compensation, Self-Respiration, and Stimulant. Add Weight Even to one of the strains to grant hunger immunity, and something else such as Eternal Youth to give yourself a third unique strain. Matching symptoms in different virus strains will stack with each other.
* A perfectly made virus blend from virology can heal you at a slow, but decent rate, even out of critical condition.
** Viruses with different, unique symptoms can be mixed together in a beaker to produce a strain with some or all of the symptoms of component strains.
** Viruses with different, unique symptoms can be mixed together in a beaker to produce a strain with some or all of the symptoms of component strains.
* If you actually do manage to make a beneficial virus and want to distribute it, have a superior vet it and ask them to announce it to the station via their desk.
* If you actually do manage to make a beneficial virus and want to distribute it, have a superior vet it and ask them to announce it to the station via their desk.
* If you get denied a crate (probably more than half your rounds), ask Engineering for a share of their plasma or ask the HoP for mining access so you can get your own plasma. (This is the only reliable way you are going to get plasma!)
** Keep a copy of the last iteration of your virus so you can go back and roll your next symptom again.  
** If you get a virus with unwanted symptoms, use your dropper set to transfer one unit of synaptizine to your virus. Your 30 unit bottle will be good for a full 30 uses!
==Typhoid Mary==
* If you are a virologist who wants the most from a beneficial virus, but cannot fit all the desired symptoms into one strain, consider removing "Weight Even" from your symptoms if you already included stimulant. All that hunger does is reduce a person's speed; Stimulant totally negates all slowdowns, and thus this renders Weight Even redundant.
Being a [[traitor]] is where a dangerous [[jobs|job]] like this one really shines. You can crack a virus crate open and play exciting games with the many toys inside. Brain Rot is a fine way to screw over the crew, and if people wonder about you, mumble something unintelligible. (even though a good virologist would've cured himself already).


==Typhoid Mary==
Releasing a pandemic is a good way to cause chaos, creating a convenient cover for illicit activities if it's debilitating enough and you've immunized yourself beforehand. Be aware that everyone turns to the virologist for both salvation and blame when there's an outbreak - either go loud or make yourself scarce!
Being a [[traitor]] is where a dangerous [[jobs|job]] like this one really shines. Make sure you get the heads of staff to crack a virus crate open for you, or use a traitor item on it to pop it open yourself. Brain Rot seems to be the best way to screw over the crew, and if people wonder why you are in a spot, mumble something unintelligible. (even though a good virologist would've cured himself already).


Releasing a pandemic is a good way to cause chaos, creating a convenient cover for illicit activities. As an added bonus, then curing the disease and eradicating it from the station is a good way to get in the good graces of the crew, further protecting you from any suspicion. As always, protecting yourself from the disease is most important. Be conservative, however. If the crew finds out that EVERY disease has been somehow released, they'll be out for your blood. Releasing diseases when not a traitor is a great way to be banned!
If you're particularly adept and your objectives permit you to cause true disasters ([[Traitor#Hijacking|hijack]], ascended [[heretic]], [[wizard]]?), you can make your own disease that far outweighs the potential of the premade viruses, and doesn't require nearly so much help nor suspicion from innocents before everything has already gone too far to take back. Here's a hint: if you want people to cry, use [[Guide to Chemistry#Mutagenic Agar|Mutagenic Agar]] and [[Guide to Chemistry#Sucrose Agar|Sucrose Agar]]. If you want people to die, use [[Guide to Chemistry#Unstable Uranium Gel|Unstable Uranium Gel]]. Have a vaccine (or [[Surgery#Viral Bonding|viral bonding]] if you're lucky enough to find an accomplice) ready for yourself and anyone you intend to spare - if you do it right, these plagues can engulf the whole station faster than you can blink, and have kill times measured in under three minutes.


If for some reason you don't want to spread terrible death everywhere, your office is secluded and difficult to get into, making it a common base for [[gang]] or [[cult]] activity.
If for some reason you don't want to spread terrible death everywhere, [[Virology|your office]] is secluded and difficult to get into, making it a common base/target for [[gang]] or [[cult]] or [[xenomorph]] or [[swarmer]] or [[Traitor|contractor]] or [[abductor]] *GASP* or [[vampire]] or [[shadowling]] or [[nightmare]] or [[darkspawn]] or [[blob]]...


For [[antagonist]] activity. Roll out the welcome mat and say hello, and invite them to join you in your dark work.
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MEDICAL STAFF
Generic virologist.png Virologist.png
Virologist
Alternative Titles: Microbiologist, Pathologist, Junior Disease Researcher, Epidemiologist, Disease Control Expert
Access: Virology, Medbay, Mineral Storage
Additional Access: Morgue, Operating Theatre, Chemistry, Genetics
Difficulty: Medium
Supervisors: Chief Medical Officer
Duties: Study the effects of various diseases and synthesize a vaccine for them. Engineer beneficial viruses.
Guides: Infections, Guide to medicine External virology guide [1]
Minimum Age: 24
Quote: Yes cmo?, I need this syringe gun for testing with monkeys, you wouldn't want it to spread would you?

As a research station, there are a lot of departments of research; the study of space viruses is one of those research departments! Congratulations doctor, you have been selected to study and treat various types of viruses, and create valuable vaccines. So grab your latex gloves and get your breath mask on and hole yourself up in Virology, it is time to perform some disease research.

Bare minimum requirements: If an epidemic breaks out aboard the station, don't be the source of it.


Welcome Doctor

Unlike Robert Nevile, you will not have a huge kick ass adventure while curing diseases. You will have a boring time, and likely fuck up constantly. Just make sure the Chemist or the Chief Medical Officer are around (and attentive) or you won't be able to cure uncommon diseases and might have an outbreak.

Infecting Monkeys

Primarily, this is your job. Find a batch of virus, inject a monkey, and record the results. Then cure the monkey.

If you're concerned about the monkeys and don't want to have a pen full of contagion conveniently sitting around, move a single monkey to one of your isolation rooms and treat/infect them there. You can also use this as an easy way to keep all your cures localized and in a single sample, giving you an expedient route to creating the vaccines on the Pandemic 2000.

Take your sample, put that in a beaker and load it up on the Pandemic in your main room. Congratulations. You've found a vaccine.

You can also see the cure to a disease using your Pandemic machine, and reproduce it if there is an active culture in the blood, for whatever reason.

A MAN IN BRAZIL IS COUGHING!

Viruses can get loose on the station many ways: random events, traitorous activity, and the most common way of all: your own incompetence. If you accidentally infect someone with a harmful virus, well, there is not much you can do except quarantine, treat, and ensure they aren't infectious before releasing them. Make sure only people that know exactly what they're doing can enter your room. Warn people beforehand that you're conducting experiments and remember to vaccinate yourself once you research a disease.

Viruses can be spread through blood. People with viruses will often spread blood everywhere. Do the math. Then do your job and clean up the blood.

CREATE A PANDEMIC!

You are able to create your own diseases with various symptoms, stats and bonuses. Read this for a guide!

Symbiosis

Viruses don't always have to be something to be avoided. With a bit of work you can engineer friendly viruses that come with a number of beneficial symptoms, such as eliminating the need to eat, or even one that lets the body regenerate its own health. Just make sure you clear it with the CMO and let the station know what your friendly virus does before releasing it, or you might find yourself at the end of a pitchfork.

Tips

  • Putting your biohazard suit on speaks volumes to the trained CMO. Avoid this if you do not want them on your back.
  • After viruses reach a certain stealth level, they will not appear on MedHUD interfaces and Health analyzers and hide warning signs of symptoms before they activate.
  • Syringes can be used to safely extract blood out of infected monkeys or humans.
  • Keep a good eye on your monkeys. If they were to escape, they could spread a virus, and you would have two forces of mass anger looking upon you. A way to prevent this is by chaining the monkeys to their beds in separate rooms. If a monkey does get out, immediately inform the gods and start working on making a cure.
  • Virology can turn you into just as much as a superhuman as Genetics.
  • Coughing as a symptom makes people drop grabs and can thus be used to make changelings miserable as they keep dropping absorbs.
  • A perfectly made virus blend from virology can heal you at a slow, but decent rate, even out of critical condition.
    • Viruses with different, unique symptoms can be mixed together in a beaker to produce a strain with some or all of the symptoms of component strains.
  • If you actually do manage to make a beneficial virus and want to distribute it, have a superior vet it and ask them to announce it to the station via their desk.
    • Keep a copy of the last iteration of your virus so you can go back and roll your next symptom again.

Typhoid Mary

Being a traitor is where a dangerous job like this one really shines. You can crack a virus crate open and play exciting games with the many toys inside. Brain Rot is a fine way to screw over the crew, and if people wonder about you, mumble something unintelligible. (even though a good virologist would've cured himself already).

Releasing a pandemic is a good way to cause chaos, creating a convenient cover for illicit activities if it's debilitating enough and you've immunized yourself beforehand. Be aware that everyone turns to the virologist for both salvation and blame when there's an outbreak - either go loud or make yourself scarce!

If you're particularly adept and your objectives permit you to cause true disasters (hijack, ascended heretic, wizard?), you can make your own disease that far outweighs the potential of the premade viruses, and doesn't require nearly so much help nor suspicion from innocents before everything has already gone too far to take back. Here's a hint: if you want people to cry, use Mutagenic Agar and Sucrose Agar. If you want people to die, use Unstable Uranium Gel. Have a vaccine (or viral bonding if you're lucky enough to find an accomplice) ready for yourself and anyone you intend to spare - if you do it right, these plagues can engulf the whole station faster than you can blink, and have kill times measured in under three minutes.

If for some reason you don't want to spread terrible death everywhere, your office is secluded and difficult to get into, making it a common base/target for gang or cult or xenomorph or swarmer or contractor or abductor *GASP* or vampire or shadowling or nightmare or darkspawn or blob...

For antagonist activity. Roll out the welcome mat and say hello, and invite them to join you in your dark work.

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