SCP-049, also known as "The Plague Doctor," is an bizarre humanoid entity that shows up to be dressed in a dark, In a early plague doctor's outfit. SCP-049 stands at around 1.9 meters tall and wears a long, dark robe with a hood that clouds its confront. Its hands are secured by dark leather gloves, and it carries a expansive, corroded medical sack with different surgical instruments.

One of the striking highlights of SCP-049 is its capacity to energize and control dead bodies, alluded to as SCP-049-2 occasions. When SCP-049 comes into physical contact with a perished human or creature, it can some way or another reanimate and control the body, turning it into an forceful and rough entity. These vivified bodies display improved quality and deftness and will assault living animals on sight.

SCP-049 claims that its mission is to "cure" people contaminated with a supernatural sickness it alludes to as the "Pestilence." Agreeing to SCP-049, this sickness causes the rot and change of living creatures. It accepts that by surgically expelling organs and applying its claim specialized concoctions, it can kill the "Plague" and reestablish people to a solid state. In any case, SCP-049's methods result within the passing of its subjects instead of a remedy.