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After word got out, players searched frantically for wow classic gold information about what was happening.

"The world chat would explode any time a town fell," says Nadia Heller, an ex-World of Warcraft player whose persona lived through the incident. "We kept a close attention not just on our guild conversation but on world chat as well to determine where not to go. We did not need to catch it."

The spread of Corrupted Blood, and the player's behavioral changes to it, caught the interest of epidemiologist Dr. Nina Fefferman, who had been a World of Warcraft player at the time of this episode. Fefferman achieved to her colleague Dr. Eric Lofgren. In 2007the two released a paper that detailed their findings, such as complicated models of individual behaviour in a pandemic. Fefferman says the incident has helped inform her current research into predictive modeling around covid-19.

"What I do is study all of the elements of infectious disease outbreaks that help us prepare for pandemics," explained Fefferman, a mathematical biologist. "We really saw the full gamut of behaviors we see in the real world reflected from the player characters throughout Corrupted Blood."

Dr. Dmitri Williams, an associate professor from USC who was also playing World of Warcraft through the Corrupted Blood episode, queries if Fefferman's findings are legitimate mirrors to real-life behaviour.

"There are matches in which you are encouraged to buy wow gold classic act in a way that you would never act offline," Williams said. "You must understand [the sport ], play with it and understand the culture so you can create these kind of determinations that, yeah, this is a pretty good proxy"

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