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A deadly virtual plague has broken out in the online game World of Warcraft.linky.Although limited to only a few of the game's servers, the numbers of characters that have fallen victim is thought to be in the thousands. [snip]
The infection was only supposed to affect those in the immediate vicinity of Hakkar's corpse but some players found a way to transfer it to other areas of the game by infecting an in-game virtual pet with it. This pet was then unleashed in the orc capital city of Ogrimmar and proved hugely effective as the Corrupted Blood plague spread from player to player. Although computer controlled characters did not contract the plague, they are said to have acted as "carriers" and infected player-controlled characters they encountered. [snip]
The "Corrupted Blood" plague is not the first virtual disease to break out in online worlds. In May 2000 many players of The Sims were outraged when their game characters died because of an infection contracted from a dirty virtual guinea pig.
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in high school we played a simluated war game in world history. i remember one of my modes of attack was infecting domesticated animals with rabies and anthrax and unleashing them on enemy populations. burning crops was another one.
simulations are one.
simulations are "fun" rather.
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