This is the journal of Ivan Grigory VI
April/ 8th / 2016 (49 days after outbreak)
Entry #6, page 18
It has become a lot easier to spot infected individuals before they turn, aside from obvious bite wounds.
There are varying symptoms that happen within infected individual's body
But there is a consistency within the last symptoms that let you know when an infected individual will turn completely
Hyper sensitivity: the body's 5 senses become much more sensitive than normal people's. Lights become incredibly blinding, no matter the level of brightness. Food becomes too bitter or too sweet. The hearing becomes incredibly sensitive to any and all sound, low sounds are easier to detect and loud sounds become incredibly disorienting. The skin becomes highly receptive to touch, small pinches feel like worms under the skin and pains that don't usually hurt that much become like fire on the skin. Seems like smell is mostly unaffected… (Dom really needs to take a bath T_T)
Mood swings: Infected individuals will experience heavy mood swings; ranging from annoyingly cheerful to murderous rage. Most of the time the mood swings are hard to notice within certain kinds of people, so it's harder to catch.
Hallucinations/severe paranoia: this one's a little self-explanatory…you know…see things that aren't there, be totally weird about everything
Abnormal levels of aggression: most people become much more easily irritated and prone to violent actions. One record I have of this is our encounter with Delilah (see page 5)
Numbness: infected individuals will react less to pain, and usually won't feel, say a punch or pinch.
Insomnia: self-explanatory
Night terrors: -_- do I need to explain his one?
And then of course: death and reanimation
Certain infected individuals have several abnormalities when they turn (see page 12 for explanation)
Each zombie is similar to the others, but still very different
In case I'm dead and anyone found this, I hope this information serves you well.
Good luck