In the case of WoW, while many players were instantly affected by the plague, others found they could avoid it by maintaining a distance from victims. At the same time, many players used healing spells to help the afflicted recover. One WoW player, known as Valewalker, told CNET News.com that the effects of the plague looked like a scene from a Steven Spielberg movie.   You can buy cheap wow gold here !

"Someone teleports into town with the effect of the disease on them," Valewalker said. "It was like dominos watching the plague itself hop from person to person within personal space of each other.To Kafai, virtual online worlds--where players' economic and social behavior is often a microcosm of their off-line behavior--are a perfect place to compare real-world infectious diseases with those comprised only of digital ones and zeros. Among other things, she explained, virtual environments can allow researchers to see how social ostracization occurs as a disease spreads and people try to avoid going near the infected.In her report on the Whypox study, Kafai said that results were mixed. On the one hand, the virtual sickness "capitalized on students' knowledge of natural infectious disease through virtual symptoms." But she also noted that the children likely saw the spread of the disease as little more than something to watch rather than as an actual biological process to learn from.  Buy cheap wow gold here ,we have cheap wow gold for sale !