PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Stuart Oultram
TI  - Virtual plagues and real-world pandemics: reflecting on the potential for online computer role-playing games to inform real world epidemic research
AID  - 10.1136/medhum-2012-010299
DP  - 2013 Dec 01
TA  - Medical Humanities
PG  - 115--118
VI  - 39
IP  - 2
4099  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/39/2/115.short
4100  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/39/2/115.full
SO  - J Med Humanit2013 Dec 01; 39
AB  - In the wake of the Corrupted Blood incident, which afflicted the massively multiplayer online computer role-playing game World of Warcraft in 2005, it has been suggested that both, the incident itself and massively multiplayer online computer role-playing games in general, can be utilised to inform and assist real-world epidemic and public health research. In this paper, I engage critically with these claims.