In September 2005, video game developer Blizzard Entertainment released a quest in World of Warcraft where the final boss would pass on a contagious, damage causing disease called Corrupted Blood. The disease turned out to be more infectious than imagined and quickly spread through the games world and caused an epidemic among the two million players at the time that lasted a week. The incident was compared to that of real life epidemics and epidemiologists have even used this as a model for human behaviour towards a disease epidemic
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 00:50:17 +0000
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