Using the popular online game to study reactions to a virtual disease:
Epidemiologists, often lacking real-life disease explosions within the population, are studying epidemics within virtual worlds such as the famous “corrupted blood” disease that ripped through, and temporarily pacified, the World of Warcraft.





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