Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-4753851-20140620204919/@comment-13965604-20140620233735

I prefer referring to it as a virus, seeing as it can be passed on to others. You can't bite someone and their eye or hair color change. But you can and it give them mono or syphilis.

As far as werewolfism being the genesis of all shifters, I don't know. Before Berserkers were brought up I probably would've said yes, if pressed about it, but now that's they've mentioned Berserkers, I'm thinking probably not