An epidemiologist called Eric Lofgren just happened to become an avid wow classic gold player and has been fascinated from the real-world parallels to how the epidemic played out in the digital universe. He along with his Tufts colleague, Nina Fefferman, co-authored a 2007 newspaper published in Lancet Infectious Diseases examining the potential consequences of this Corrupted Blood incident for refining existing epidemiological models, since they would have the ability to draw on hard data showing how players actually responded during an outbreak.

For instance, some players attempted to help with healing spells, because their attempts endured replenishment of these susceptible to this spell, accidentally making things worse, rather than letting its course runs. There were the thrill seekers who went to the infected areas out of curiosity, getting victims, which Fefferman has likened to journalists traveling into war zones who put themselves in harm's way to have a story.

There were a couple of players that maliciously spread the infection on purpose--something that's been recorded in real world outbreaks--and one participant even took on the role of a Doomsday prophet, standing at the town square to narrate the carnage unfolding in the game.

That earlier work on the Buy classic wow gold Corrupted Blood epidemic continues to inform her study. "It led me to think really deeply about how folks perceive dangers and how differences in that understanding can alter how they act," Fefferman recently told PC Gamer.