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Online Games Used as Testbed for How Disease Spreads

08.22.07 | No Comments

Scientists may soon use online games to study how a plague might spread. Apparently, they got the idea when Blizzard programmers introduced a simulated disease dubbed “Corrupted Blood” into the World of Warcraft environment and the disease started behaving much like real influenza or the plague would.

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