The untapped potential of virtual game worlds to shed light on real world epidemics

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17714675/

Read via secondary summaries (Medical News Today, Wikipedia). Uses the World of Warcraft Corrupted Blood outbreak to argue virtual worlds capture individual behavior in epidemics; players entered quarantine zones and assumed contact would not infect them; quarantine failed and the developer reset servers.

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