There's slight symptoms, cramps or aches, breaking out, dry skin, fatigue, with the most clear one being patches of rust forming on your gear.
The victims develops Hyperdontia, skin cells stop producing at this stage, while blood flow slows down which causes the victim to feel Numbness/tickling, Coldness, Pain, changed color in skin, and more. Somehow the change in blood flow to the brain stays the same.
Extra Notes- In rare cases the teeth will grow in other areas on the body. With skin cells stopping, this can cause wrinkles, Acne, and age spots. We also noticed some parts of their skin becoming a sort of orange color, like rust.
Blood flow to the brain eventually slows, which can cause Strokes, Vascular dementia, and Cerebral hypoxia. It's very common for victims to die at this stage. The victims seem to have less brain activity, zombie like almost and have shown spiked aggression. Along with having less sleep
Extra Notes- we have noticed that The victims have stopped eating regular food and demand more food that is meat related. Some seem to develop Hemochromatosis or "iron overload"
the victim seems to get a more severe version of Acral peeling skin syndrome, the skin peeling ranges from in common cases the top layer to rare cases the bone. The victims don't seem bothered, and even don't seem to acknowledge what is happening to their skin.
Extra Notes- we've tested the blood of some of the victims and have noticed a repeating pattern, somehow the iron in the victims body's have rusted, however only in certain areas, we've tried removing the rust but for those we couldn't get too, rust holes started forming.
extreme aggression, multiple reports of the victims becoming cannibalistic at this stage. Movements are zombie like, and will attack when at the slightest irritation. Only few survive at this stage, being around 1-1,000.
Extra Notes- We cannot save anybody in this stage, and can only put them out of their misery.
