Check out Lumerit→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! More from TodayIFoundOut: Does the Ocean Continually Get Saltier? https://youtu.be/fmynzMyVAVI In this video: In mid-2005 players logging on to play the popular online multiplayer game World of Warcraft found themselves besieged by a virulent virtual plague nobody knew how to cure or effectively combat. For around a month the plague spread unchecked throughout the kingdom of Azeroth, killing tens of thousands of players’ characters and intriguing experts who’ve since used the plague as a model for real world bioterrorism and epidemic research. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2018/08/time-plague-nearly-killed-everyone-world-warcraft/ Sources: https://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=18571 https://www.wired.com/2008/03/wow-terror/ https://www.wired.com/2010/12/world-of-warcraft-catastrophes/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6951918.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4272418.stm https://www.pcgamer.com/how-blizzard-coped-with-world-of-warcrafts-blood-plague-and-other-early-disasters/ https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4946772 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gjsqBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA10&dq=corrupted+blood+incident&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwic272fkdvZAhWPa8AKHUpQCJYQ6AEIQDAE#v=onepage&q=corrupted%20blood%20incident&f=false https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=D-AoDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT118&dq=corrupted+blood+warcraft&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigt7vWkdvZAhVlGsAKHTu-BnEQ6AEITDAG#v=onepage&q=corrupted%20blood%20warcraft&f=false http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Corrupted_Blood http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Hakkar_the_Soulflayer http://wowwiki.wikia.com/wiki/Debuff https://www.wowhead.com/spell=24328/corrupted-blood https://massivelyop.com/2018/03/17/the-game-archaeologis