191: The Science of Pandemics & World of Warcraft (with 10000Hawks)

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🗓️ 12 December 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

This week Jake (@10000Hawks) joins us to talk about the worst pandemic to ever shake the World... of Warcraft. In 2005 Blizzard Entertainment ran into a major issue when a WoW update resulted in the Corrupted Blood Incident...

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References & Further Reading
https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/200/7/1018/903237
https://www.britannica.com/science/pandemic
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/world-of-warcraft-coronavirus-corrupted-blood
https://escholarship.org/content/qt4qj303gp/qt4qj303gp_noSplash_a98544bf9b24082db88e4fd3ca838f88.pdf?t=q5jbq6
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrupted_Blood_incident
https://www.zmescience.com/other/pieces/the-weird-world-of-warcraft-pandemic-of-2005/
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(07)70212-8/fulltext
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2020/04/09/world-warcraft-experienced-pandemic-2005-that-experience-may-help-coronavirus-researchers/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-flu-virtual/online-blood-plague-offers-lessons-for-pandemics-idUKTRE53Q4HI20090427?edition-redirect=uk
https://mh.bmj.com/content/39/2/115.long
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft
https://www.google.com/search?q=corrupted+blood+incident&rlz=1C5CHFA_enGB727GB727&sxsrf=ALiCzsbCejmTiU_NX3_e_R3iTh6g27jfmw:1667055432824&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjXlJO32YX7AhUbgP0HHcaWBLcQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1512&bih=866&dpr=2#imgrc=yuZtqDSUjtAcCM

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Sci Guys, the show we talk about the crazy, weird, and wonderful stories from the science world.
0:13.0	I'm Corey, and as always, I'm joined by my co-host, Luke Cutforth, and special guest, Jake Pepperton.
0:18.2	Hooray!
0:19.2	Hi.
0:19.4	Hi. Special guest, Jake Pemberton. This week, we're talking about digital diseases and MMO maladies.
0:33.9	So viruses and massive multiplayer online hacks, some of that.
0:40.9	Games.
0:41.6	Kind of close, kind of close.
0:43.3	But first, we got a wee review.
0:45.8	Ooh, a wee review.
0:47.1	So this one says, I started listening to this podcast to get me through night shifts at a
0:51.4	supermarket over L-O-C-L-Down.
0:54.7	Lockdown.
0:55.3	Lockdown.
0:57.1	Gotcha.
0:57.8	Good work.
0:58.1	It's been so long.
0:58.9	I don't even remember.
1:00.2	I'm now studying a master's in science communication and using this as a case study for a piece
1:04.8	of excellent SciCom.
1:06.2	Thanks for keeping me entertained and teaching me a few things.
1:09.2	Oh, that's very sweet.
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