Corrupted Blood incident

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The Corrupted Blood incident was an infamous 2005 in-game plague in World of Warcraft that unintentionally spread uncontrollably among players and NPCs, later drawing interest from epidemiologists as a model for real-world disease dynamics.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf World of Warcraft event ⓘ
in-game event ⓘ
virtual epidemic ⓘ
affectedEntity non-player characters ⓘ
pets ⓘ
player characters ⓘ
summoned creatures ⓘ
countryOfOrigin United States ⓘ
duration several days ⓘ
endCause patch fix by Blizzard Entertainment ⓘ
server reset ⓘ
hasCause Corrupted Blood debuff ⓘ
game design oversight ⓘ
hasDeveloper Blizzard Entertainment ⓘ
hasGame World of Warcraft ⓘ
hasOriginBoss Hakkar the Soulflayer ⓘ
hasOriginLocation Zul'Gurub raid ⓘ
hasPublicationAbout “The Untapped Potential of Virtual Game Worlds to Shed Light on Real World Epidemics” ⓘ
hasPublisher Blizzard Entertainment ⓘ
hasResearcher Eric Lofgren ⓘ
Nina H. Fefferman ⓘ
mediaCoverage mainstream news outlets ⓘ
scientific press ⓘ
notableEffect emergent player quarantine behavior ⓘ
griefing and intentional spreading ⓘ
informal safe zones ⓘ
mass player character deaths ⓘ
panic and avoidance behavior ⓘ
server-wide disruption ⓘ
spontaneous volunteer healers ⓘ
virtual corpses littering cities ⓘ
notableFor early example of using MMOs for scientific modeling ⓘ
unintended emergent epidemiological experiment ⓘ
notableLocation Ironforge ⓘ
Orgrimmar ⓘ
Stormwind City ⓘ
major population hubs ⓘ
spreadMechanism NPC infection persistence ⓘ
healing and support interactions ⓘ
pet recall from raid to city ⓘ
player-to-player proximity ⓘ
teleportation from raid to cities ⓘ
startDate 2005-09-13 ⓘ
studiedBy complex systems scientists ⓘ
epidemiologists ⓘ
public health researchers ⓘ
usedAsModelFor bioterrorism scenarios ⓘ
human behavioral response to epidemics ⓘ
pandemic preparedness ⓘ
real-world disease spread ⓘ

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World of Warcraft → notableEvent → Corrupted Blood incident ⓘ
Hakkar the Soulflayer → notableFor → Corrupted Blood incident ⓘ
Hakkar the Soulflayer → ability → Corrupted Blood ⓘ
linked to: Corrupted Blood incident
Eric Lofgren → studied → World of Warcraft Corrupted Blood incident ⓘ
linked to: Corrupted Blood incident
The Untapped Potential of Virtual Game Worlds to Shed Light on Real World Epidemics → focusesOn → Corrupted Blood incident ⓘ
The Untapped Potential of Virtual Game Worlds to Shed Light on Real World Epidemics → usesAsCaseStudy → Corrupted Blood virtual plague ⓘ
linked to: Corrupted Blood incident
Nina H. Fefferman → usedCaseStudy → World of Warcraft Corrupted Blood incident ⓘ
linked to: Corrupted Blood incident