Medical researchers are taking a real look at the fictional virus WoW set in motion back in 2005 to help their studies. Go check out this interesting article...

"It really looked quite a bit like a real disease," Nina Fefferman of Princeton University, who worked on the report with her then-student Eric Lofgren, said in a telephone interview.

This includes stupid behavior, near-instant international travel and infection by pets. The outbreak was an accidental consequence of a software challenge added to the "World of Warcraft" game in 2005, Fefferman and Lofgren report in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases.

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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2173674,00.asp