Bad fruit Item# Object class: Safe Special containtment procedure: SCP-nummer is optimally put in a cold room with little to no oxygen flow. If these requirements are not met, a regular, unbreathable storage box should be serviceable, as long as no spores and filth from the object is released. Contact with SCP-nummer should only be initiated once the scientist is clad in fully protective gear. Currently stored in Site-188. Description: SCP-nummer is a rotten apple, several worms and maggots infest it, hereby referred to as SCP-nummer-A. As SCP-nummer-A squirms around the main body of the thing, microscopic spores are released into the nearby area. Direct skin contact with these spores will lead to them leech onto the insides of the body, where after 2-3 weeks, SCP-nummer-A hatchlings will gnaw their way out. Most commonly, it will eat its way out through the softer tissues of the body, such as the eyes. The earliest sign of an infection is most often pain behind the eyes. The spores of SCP-nummer-A seems to be sentient, or at least biologically designed to appear that way. Its behavior is highly abnormal compared to what normal spores should be able to do, as it is heat seeking and stays afloat for prolonged periods of time. SCP-nummer has proven invulnerable to heat, flaying, decay and being consumed. No record of reptilian lifeforms being contaminated. Event Log: Royal Adelaide Hospital, 13/6/03. Janice Taylor, 37, was rushed to the emergency room. Severe cognitive decline, she was unable to form basic sentences and could barely register the world around her. Unnamed family members claimed, among other thing the past year, that she had been picking apples the month before and had recently complained about her eyesight declining. Doctors at the Royal Hospital discovered that maggots had infested part of her brain. Though the pests were surgically removed, SCP-nummer-A’s spores remained feeding in her body. Janice Taylor was pronounced dead the following month at 21:08, 2/7/03. Clinic, Mount Gambier, name not documented, 24/11/05.