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Today I watched a program on the possibility (grown beyond possibility) of the Avian Flu pandemic. Australia is well in the path of the bird flu and stocks of Tamiflu are flying off shelves here. At the same time I received and email to tell me that the designers of World of WarCraft were wrestling with an infectious disease that had been introduced into the game. Mmmm...does that make the people who introduced the disease bioterroists? How real do people want these games to be? It is interesting to reflect that while we are worried about a virus mutating and crossing species, we do have situations where a virus can cross worlds - virtual to lifeworld and back again. The affect of the virus in the gaming world does impact on the health of its players. Maybe we could almost consider such games as models for disease processes if gamers were content to take the virtual reality to extreme and their characters stay dead, but where's the fun in that :-(
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