Yes, I think “infected” is a lot closer. There’s a closely related term of ingroup jargon I’m holding onto and not sharing publicly that’s closely related, because I very much don’t want to see that particular word I’ve spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools (or at least I want to until I can give it a really good try at explaining clearly), but overall “infected by lycanthropy” and “zombie plague” seem like better paradigms than calling whole persons werewolves.
Yes, I think “infected” is a lot closer. There’s a closely related term of ingroup jargon I’m holding onto and not sharing publicly that’s closely related, because I very much don’t want to see that particular word I’ve spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools (or at least I want to until I can give it a really good try at explaining clearly), but overall “infected by lycanthropy” and “zombie plague” seem like better paradigms than calling whole persons werewolves.