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The spread of Corrupted Blood, and the participant's behavioral changes to it, caught the interest of epidemiologist Dr. Nina Fefferman, who had been a wow classic gold player in the time of this incident. Fefferman achieved to her colleague Dr. Eric Lofgren. In 2007, the two released a paper that detailed their findings, such as complicated models of human behaviour during a pandemic. Fefferman claims the incident has helped inform her current research to predictive modeling around covid-19.

"What I really do is research all the elements of infectious disease outbreaks which help us prepare for pandemics," said Fefferman, a mathematical biologist. "We really saw the full gamut of behaviors we find in the real world reflected in the player characters during Corrupted Blood."

Dr. Dmitri Williams, an associate professor from USC who was also playing World of Warcraft through the Corrupted Blood episode, queries whether Fefferman's findings are valid mirrors into real-life behavior.

"There are matches where you're encouraged to behave in a manner that you would never act offline," Williams stated. "You really have tobuy classic gold wow
know [the game], play with it and understand the culture so that you can make these kind of determinations that, yeah, this is a fairly good proxy"