The Corrupted Blood debuff was created to affect players as they fought Hakkar the Blood God, lowering their health and ...

The Corrupted Blood debuff was never meant to escape the raid zone, but a bug meant player's pets could carry the disease beyond ground zero through some unforeseen trickery, ...

The 2005 Corrupted Blood plague is perhaps the most notorious bug in WoW’s long history, which birthed one of the most famous unscripted incidents in any online game.Corrupted Blood was a debuff ...

Corrupted Blood's lethality was a real annoyance for players who wanted to visit WoW cities like Ironforge, but of course it wasn't truly dangerous. No real lives were lost.

What interested Lofgren and Fefferman is that despite Corrupted Blood being a fictional disease in a make-believe world, World of Warcraft was very much influenced by human behaviour.

Corrupted Blood soon developed into a full-blown in-game pandemic. As the skeletons piled up in the densely packed auction house in the capital city, ...

Fefferman, who was playing the game at the time of Corrupted Blood, and her colleague Eric T. Lofgren, co-wrote a study in 2007 on how virtual game worlds can shed light on real-world epidemics ...

Ironically enough, the Corrupted Blood incident was one example scientists and doctors turned to while studying the COVID-19 pandemic. It also planted the seed for another pandemic-level event in ...

Diablo 4's Season 9, Sins of the Horadrim, will launch on July 1, 2025, across all platforms. It will introduce a new quest ...

The Corrupted Blood incident was memorialized by Blizzard with its own Hearthstone card, and referenced in the Scourge invasion that took place as part of the Shadowlands expansion in 2020.