Pandemic
Does Patient Zero un-eradicate a disease?
The designer's newest ruling (2019) reversed his earlier answers; the rulebook only says it can affect an eradicated disease.
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2019-11-07
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2015-03-01superseded
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2017-11-29superseded
- Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2015-09-30superseded
No. Patient Zero affects an eradicated disease without un-eradicating it, unlike Hidden Pocket, which flips the cure marker back. While the card is in play it keeps adding a cube to its city each turn (and can cause outbreaks) but the disease stays eradicated, and infection cards of that colour drawn in the Infect step still add no cubes.
The designer said in 2015 and 2017 that it did un-eradicate; his 2019 clarification supersedes that.