EVE - Game Virus Studied in Medical Journal
Posted: August 21st, 2007, 1:58 pm
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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"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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