A programming supervision enabled the debuff to disperse beyond the site of this Hakkar boss struggle and into the world at large. Much like rats fueled the Bubonic Plague, characters' trained animals spurred the Corrupted Blood outbreak. Hunter characters can summon and dismiss pets to fight at their side at will. Once dismissed, all the consequences on the pets have been paused until it's called back out again. In effect, the critters could contract Corrupted Blood during the boss fight, vanish and then exhibit the symptoms again elsewhere in the world map when they were again summoned. There it would spread to other players and pets which came in contact with them.

Cities like the dwarven city Ironforge and orc city Orgrimmar were overrun within hours. Non-playable personalities, who could not die due to special coding, would also catch the consequence, meaning any player that passed by them may get Corrupted Blood.

After word got out, players searched frantically for news about what was going on.

"The world chat would explode any time a town dropped," says Nadia Heller, an ex-World of Warcraft player whose character lived through the incident. "We kept a close eye not only on our guild chat but on world chat as well to see where not to go. We didn't want to catch it."

The spread of Corrupted Blood, and the participant's behavioral changes to this, captured the interest of epidemiologist Dr. Nina Fefferman, who had been a World of Warcraft player at 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 individual behaviour in a pandemic. Fefferman claims the episode has helped inform her current research into predictive modeling about covid-19.

"What I do is research all of the aspects of infectious disease outbreaks that help us prepare for pandemics," said Fefferman, a mathematical biologist. "We saw the full gamut of behaviors we see in the real world reflected from the player characters throughout Corrupted Blood."

Dr. Dmitri Williams, an associate professor in USC who was also playing World of Warcraft through the Corrupted Blood incident, queries if Fefferman's findings are legitimate mirrors to real-life behavior.

"There are games in which you are encouraged to act in a manner that you would never behave offline," Williams said. "You really have to understand [the sport ], play with it and understand the culture so you may create these types of determinations that, yeah, this is a fairly good proxy"

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