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How does a Superbug Infection card work when drawn?

The designer answered this in 2017 and 2018 and 2024.

  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2018-07-25
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2017-07-09
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2017-04-30
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2024-03-04

It isn't a normal draw: draw another Infection card and apply it. If that city has no purple cube (and its disease isn't eradicated), add a purple cube instead of one of its colour. Otherwise it has no effect and the infection happens normally, adding both the city's colour and a purple cube. Two Superbug cards in a row apply once to the next card. During Forecast or the Troubleshooter's look, no extra card is drawn, and you may reorder a Superbug card among the six.

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