User blog comment:Sammy the saftey reaper/HELP IM INFECTED/@comment-34794977-20180309044228

Hi Sammy, not to worry, the infection progresses inline with the story so you won't die before you have time to complete your objectives even if you took a month off. The infection progress is just a nice way to keep the storyline ticking over in the background and give the impression of time passing, it won't actually kill you ingame, only the animals do that ;)