SCP-8053, designated the "Medusa Virus," is a highly contagious and lethal disease. It is currently being studied extensively to find a cure, to no avail.

*Stage One (1): Symptoms include flu-like manifestations such as severe sweating, intense coughing, repetitive sneezing, high fever, weakness, and unexplained crying. Stage one (1) typically lasts around 3 days.

*Stage Two (2): Infected individuals begin bleeding from all bodily orifices, as well as experiencing intense pain throughout the body. This stage is characterized by severe hemorrhaging and lasts about 1 month.

*Stage Three (3): The subject continues to bleed until exsanguination occurs. They then enter a zombie-like state, exhibiting predatory behavior while maintaining higher cognitive function. In some cases, infected individuals retain a human appearance to discreetly spread the virus.
There is no known cure to SCP 8053.

It was noted by staff, "To me, it seems as if the author used AI to generate the ConProcs and Description then handwrote everything else."

"For example, the author is able to properly spell "exsanguination", which is a very odd thing to say because exsanguination is "death caused by blood loss", so it's just saying "person bleeds until they die due to bleeding". At the same time, the author is unable to spell "excessive" and "incapability" as seen below."

Symptoms of infection include intense emotional distress and nostalgia, execisse crying and sobbing and uncapability to speak

"Compare any part of the ConProcs or Desc to the dialogue and there's a clear difference between the two."

Scientists were about to check corp, until it exploded, releasing an orange gaz

"This line from the dialogue section is just entirely wrong."