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| SCP-610 infected individuals and a converted
environment. Visible are an animate infected, an inanimate infected, a
nonhuman infected, and several unknown infected. |
Item #: SCP-610
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: Due to the vast area
of 'infection' SCP-610 covers, containment is impossible. Isolation of
the area has proved far more effective and permission has been granted
by the Russian government to establish a perimeter to keep people out of
these areas under the guise of military operations.
Should any organism displaying traits consistent with SCP-610 be
sighted near this perimeter then the established protocol requires it be
engaged at range with small arms until immobile then dispatched using
incendiary weapons and munitions from as great a distance as possible.
Any living thing coming in physical contact with an organism infected
with SCP-610 is considered expendable and is to be immediately
terminated and incinerated. Any persons coming within three meters of
SCP-610 infected life are to immediately withdraw from the area, be
isolated from the rest of their team, and subjected to medical
examination using only remote techniques to determine if infection has
occurred and appropriate steps taken based on that determination.
At present the known infection vectors for SCP-610's spread seem to
be focused on physical contact. Drone movements within heavily infected
areas have returned air samples containing minute particulate which when
exposed to organic compounds will result in an SCP-610 spread. The
results of these particular tests have given most require several days
to manifest if at all with the exception of direct contact with exposed
lung and liver tissue. These particular tests show a rapid rate of
growth which requires incineration of the testing environment no less
than twenty-four hours after initial exposure with even a two hour
mishap risking a compromised facility event. Given that this kind of
rapid growth only occurs in organic material existing outside the human
body this form of infection is at current considered a minor concern.
These peculiarities have given rise to a series of questions
regarding the possible origin of the infection in conjunction with the
failed [DATA EXPUNGED]. Containment protocol remains at a scorched earth
policy at this time and no concern for transmission via water or air at
infection parameters exists barring situational changes in the field.
Description: Initial reports of SCP-610 came direct
from the Russian government through undisclosable channels. These
reports consisted primarily of disappearances of farmers in the region
and were not considered until the local police, followed by the regional
police, and finally a government dispatched agent all failed to report
in within a 72 hour period. A small military contingent was dispatched
to the area and quickly withdrew at which point The Foundation was
contacted to investigate.
The area SCP-610 affects is close to Lake Baikal in Southern Siberia.
Areas of known infection are marked on a map provided to us
here.
Containment perimeters are marked in blue surrounding these infection
areas and as of present no further locations have been identified.
Incursions into the perimeter must be reported prior to conducting,
confirmed during exploration, and debriefed on immediately following
return.
SCP-610 appears to be a contagious skin disease at first with
symptoms including rash, itching, and increased skin sensitivity. Within
3 hours the disease will cause blemishes resembling heavy scar tissue
to form in the chest and arm areas, spreading to the legs and back
within an additional hour, consuming the victim completely within five
hours. Exposure to higher temperatures vastly decreases the time for the
contagion to spread and complete infections have been recorded
occurring in as little as five minutes.
After the completion of the infection occurs the victim's life
functions will cease for approximately 3 minutes after which time they
will restart at 2-3 times the activity rate of a normal human. Following
this, the scar tissue on the victims will start to move of its own
accord and grow at a rapid rate. Normal human features start to
disappear at this point under the infection and the path of mutation
appears to be largely random. Subjects observed in this stage of
infection have been recorded as growing three or more limbs of a type
such as arms or legs, the head may become misshapen and elongate or
widen out, and parts of the subject may split open from which additional
branches of flesh will grow. The duration of this stage of infection is
unknown and not all subjects appear to progress to the later stages.
Under unknown conditions an infected individual will cease moving and
place itself in a location it deems suitable where it roots itself. The
fleshy growth on the victim will then begin to spread itself across all
surrounding objects and consume them. Such objects do not spread the
infection as living creatures do, however, and the effect of prolonged
contact with these objects is recorded later in this document. It is
assumed that this behavior is to create an area hospitable to continued
growth of the other infected.
Observation of life infected by SCP-610 by staff is impossible. Those
infected with the disease immediately seek out aid as natural human
impulse resulting in unintended infections. Those infected past the scar
tissue phase actively and aggressively attempt to infect anyone
approaching them within an undefined area. It has been established that
should an infected be capable of sight and observe an uninfected, it
will proceed toward them. If the infected has lost the ability of sight,
a range of approximately 30 meters is considered safe.
Observation of SCP-610 infected settlements has been established
using artificial methods such as remote robots. The data returned from
these observations coupled with the openly aggressive nature of the
infected to attempt to spread SCP-610 has resulted in the Keter
classification, however so long as nothing is allowed to enter or leave
the infected areas it is considered a neutralized threat. Of concern are
the cavernous areas beneath the infected settlements that were
discovered during the exploration and attempts to get research personnel
into these areas are underway.
