Not being a WoW [World of Warcraft] player myself I have to admit this is slightly amusing but I'm sure for the millions of addicts around the world this is a big problem. The Register is reporting that when players battle with a character in the game called Hakkar they get infected with a spell called Corrupted Blood. This usually kills the player, except sometimes it doesnt and leaves that player infecous and in turn spreads the infection to other people they meet.

"Some servers have gotten so bad that you can't go into the major cities without getting the plague. And anyone less than like Level 50 nearly immediately die."

It's said that attempts have been made to quarantine the infected, but the efforts of what might be called the World of Warcraft Health Organisation (WWHO) appear to be ineffective. Plague-carrying players escape the curfew to lug the lurgey out into the wider WoW world.

The Corrupted Blood disease is, in short, out of control and rapidly taking on epidemic status.