SCP-008

**Item #:** SCP-008

**Object** Class **:** Euclid

**Special Containment Procedures:** Biological samples from SCP-008 are considered Class V extreme biohazards, and all related protocols will apply. Irradiation or incineration measures will be applied in the event that due to political or military actions the facilities must be dismantled, in the event of a power failure, or the suppression of communications from the operations or external channels during any 8-hour period.

The quarantine period for operatives leaving the facilities is 4 months. If a breach occurs, irradiation and incineration measures will be applied. It will be a policy for all G2 sites not to prepare evacuation measures.

**Description:** SCP-008 is a complex prion, samples of which are stored at each of the known G2 sites. Research on SCP-008 is highly classified and aimed at preventing development that could lead to the synthesis of SCP-008 in the future. The features of the prion SCP-008 are:

* 100% infectious.
* 100% lethal.
* Transmission through the mucosa of exposed membranes and all body fluids.
* It is not transmitted through air or water.

Symptoms of infection with SCP-008 manifest three hours after exposure and include:

* Flu-like symptoms with high fever and severe dementia in later stages.
* Entry into a coma after approximately 20 hours from the onset of the first symptoms and 12 hours after the dementia. Entry into a coma will be considered the death of the subject.
* There is a period of sporadic cell necrosis which resembles gangrene. The surviving fabrics assume their original function and are highly resistant.
* Hemoglobin increases your oxygen storage capacity resulting in less blood flow and increased muscle strength and endurance.
* The nervous and muscular systems are not affected by the total failure of the organs for several hours.
* The metabolism can drop to extremely low levels, allowing the subject to survive for 10 years without the need for food.
* Due to the high viscosity of the blood, shots, cuts and stabs cause insignificant bleeding.
* Conditioned behavior, motor control and instinctual behavior are impaired, cognitive abilities are severely retarded and erratic. The animals suffer excessive brain necrosis and remain inactive.
* The subject can adapt to his damaged nervous system but is limited to basic physical activities including: getting up, swinging on two legs, walking, biting, grabbing and crawling. The subject will move energetically as soon as he sees, hears or smells what he associates with living humans. Subject will attempt to ingest live humans if physical contact is made.
* Neutralizing completely infected subjects requires significant head trauma.

There is significant evidence to suggest that SCP-008 did not form naturally on Earth, as variants of similar complexity would have displaced much of the ecosystem. In 1959, a brief collaborative effort with the Soviet Union to locate G2 sites and eliminate SCP-008 was negotiated following its discovery. The status of SCP-008 in Russian custody since the collaboration is unknown.

**Addendum 008-1:** SCP-500 has been shown to be capable of fully curing SCP-008 even in the most advanced stages of the disease.