Board Thread:Legitimate Canon Questions/@comment-75.118.201.227-20140402211127/@comment-4091815-20140402212806

We've seen the bite of a werewolf have four effects -

Death - Paige in Visionary

Black Goo - Gerard

Kanima - Jackson

Werewolf - Scott, Erica, Isaac, Boyd

That's all we know.

We have no canonical answer for why Malia is a werecoyote.

As for the shape one takes - that applied to Jackson officially since something in his brain short-circuited the process. We don't know if it applies to others.