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Do later Virulent Strain Epidemic effects add to the earlier ones?

The designer answered this directly on BoardGameGeek.

  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2009-09-25
  • Tom Lehmann · Designer · 2023-12-30

Yes. The disease stays the same for the rest of the game and each Virulent Strain card adds its own effect to it. Continuing effects stack, even several of the same kind, while immediate effects happen once and the card is flipped face down.

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