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[AlexanderTheIncompetant]

 Greetings fellow overlords. A weregilamonster has wounded a few dwarves and killed one. Is the corpse safe to touch? how can i isolate the infected? (other than blocking all doors). Note that i dont have access to lava.

[Thisfox]

The corpse is safe to touch, if totally dead.

To isolate infected: Wall off the hospital. If possible, put them all in separate beds in separate walled off rooms in the hospital. I tend to put them behind a locked door, then wall off the door, but you can use any method to wall them in. You might have "Walking wounded", dorfs who got bit, but didn't go to hospital. Wall them into their respective bedrooms. A door isn't enough.

In a month, some will turn, and some will not. The ones who didn't turn aren't infected. You don't need to do anything more to the infected than that, just leave them walled in. They are incurable.

[Loyal]

Once they turn into a werebeast and then turn back, you'll be safe until the next moon. If you're of a mind to keep an eye on the clock, you can have them do productive work during that time (and then seal them back in a few days before turning).

Otherwise, just keep them sealed in forever, or try to kill them off during safe periods. If you have any deathtraps you'd otherwise use to off bothersome nobles, they'll usually work just as well on the infected. Due to their regenerative properties, lack of need to eat or drink, and their combat skills while turned, they also make excellent cavern explorers.

[i2amroy]

Bah, the only answer here is to convert your military into a 100% werebeast military through selective exposure (sticking 1 of them and a single dwarf on a bridge over a room filled with traps works IIRC, just trigger the bridge shortly after the fight starts but before the dwarf dies). The fact that they regenerate every full moon from anything short of a fatal injury means that they can go out and slaughter goblins, come crawling back on a single unwounded finger, and then be back up at 100% after the next full moon. Just make sure to either lockdown the civilians or the were-military every full moon (I generally just confine military to the "outer" fortress level and civilians to the "inner" one except for during events like trading caravans anyways) to prevent "accidents".

[PatrikLundell]

If you're going to keep the infected, I'd invest in draw bridges to lock them in, rather than putting up a wall and tearing it down every month. Also, if I understand it correctly, werebeasts do not attack their own were "species", so once you have identified the infected, they can all be locked in together.

[Chaosegg]

As others said, the dead do not return due to were-infection; only the living will, and then only on certain days.
Also,
the 'were' has to break the skin to infect as far as I can tell (exchange of fluid/blood?).
If you can thoroughly comb the combat log/injury lists you may be able to predict who will turn and who is less likely.
For example, bruising does not usually spread the infection I believe.

I too had my own fun times with the local were-community while playing my current 40.19 fort

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I admit to save/restoring several times to try different ways of dealing with this first threat to my fort.
Each time I usually got a different were-creature from the same pool of maybe 4-6. Mostly weremonitors and one werepanther.
Sometimes if my dwarfs hid long enough while it killed my animals, it would transform back into "normal" human or dwarf form (not always adults either),
and then run in terror off the map before my military could even think about killing them in non-were-form.

[AlexanderTheIncompetant]

What does it mean if a dwarf healed completely?

[PatrikLundell]

Also, when looking at the combat logs, I believe you should look for biting that pierces the skin, as I think the were infection is carried by saliva (in theory, blood-blood might do it, but I doubt that's modelled), so a claw would ought to be safe from an infection point of view, but I'd still isolate anyone whose skin was pierced, just to be safe.
Infection is supposed not to be 100%, but is said to be high (80%?).
Healing of the injury is probably not any indication of whether the victim is infected or not. While in dwarven form, weres act as dwarves when it comes to healing (although I don't know if they still eat, drink or sleep even when they will survive without), they heal all injury upon transformation only.

[AlexanderTheIncompetant]

What if a soldier bites the werecreature?

[PatrikLundell]

I can't swear on it, but I assume it only infects on were bites to victim blood. Victim biting were ought to be safe (unless the victim is bleeding in the mouth, but again, I don't think it modelled to that detail, and it might even be that the affliction is only carried from were saliva to victim blood.
When in doubt, quarantine the suspected victim.

[Aslandus]

You can use the search on the werebeast's combat report to find all the dwarves that were bitten, and then seal them away for a month to see if they turn. If they go through the next full moon without turning, they are probably safe (but unless you are a big fan of werebeast !!Fun!! you may want to leave them in there for at least two months or until you are certain, you can drop food through a hatch if you are really dedicated to keeping them alive).

I don't think anything but a bite from werebeast to non-werebeast transmits werebeast-ism, since it's a curse and not a disease... But again, better safe than sorry...