A World of Warcraft scene was strewn with the skeletons of players who succumbed to the Corrupted Blood epidemic.
Online gamers become guinea pigs
Epidemics uncorked in virtual worlds
A World of Warcraft scene was strewn with the skeletons of players who succumbed to the Corrupted Blood epidemic.
When an estimated 4 million people encountered a deadly epidemic called Corrupted Blood that left the landscape strewn with corpses, scientists were intrigued, not horrified. Similarly, when Whypox, a measles-like disease, was unleashed into a community of over 1.2 million young adults, researchers sat back and took notes. (Full article: 1028 words)
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