I logged on to today and started reading my home page (msn.ca) for some news and what did I find? A mention of World of Warcraft! It's an interesting article about virtual plagues and comparisons to real life.
When Erik Jacobson fell victim to a recent plague that ravaged the online game "World of Warcraft" and caused his character to squirt blood, he and other players laughed it off as a harmless bug that caused some temporary sickness.
The plague, which hit the virtual world in late September, quickly propagated, causing the temporary death of innumerable players and significant damage to large numbers of others. But it didn't have any lasting effect: Those hit by the disease were either healed or quickly reborn.
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