Patients will then reanimate and remain idle only interacting with other humans by bludgeoning them to death. It 'cures' those who it deems infected with the pestillence, it does this by stopping all biological functions in an organism with the touch of it's hands and performs several incisions on the patient and injected several unknown fluids into it's system.
SCP-049 is an entity resembling a plague doctor that has a strong desire to cure the 'pestillence', it can materialise a bag from it's garments that contain several surgical instruments. While SCP-049 appears to be wearing the thick robes and the ceramic mask indicative of that profession, the garments instead seem to have grown out of SCP-049's body over time, and are now nearly indistinguishable from whatever form is beneath them.
SCP-049, nicknamed 'The Plage Doctor', is a humanoid entity which bears the appearance of a medieval plague doctor.