Phalanx

Phalanx is a drug that delays death when a survivor is infected and can be found around the maps.

Upon use, the player will take a large amount of blue and white pills, and the screen will turn white for a few seconds. After that, the infection stops for three minutes before starting all over again. After being used, the player will hear sad/depressing music.

The player can use as many pills as they want and suffer no side effects. The bottle will disappear from the inventory upon use. It will not recover any health or stop the bleeding.

Trivia

 * If a player takes Gene Therapy while infected, the depressing music still plays.
 * Unlike the Gene Therapy, Phalanx is NOT a cure for the virus, it only delays it.
 * This drug is one of the many references to the book World War Z by Max Brooks, whose universe also has a drug named Phalanx, which is also produced and sold by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. One distinction between the two, however, is that the game version actually helps slow the disease, while in the book it is sold as a placebo to the unknowing public and helps create a sense of false security among the general population.