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Online video game reflects challenges in fighting disease

 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS | Published: August 18, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment

LONDON — Since swine flu first emerged in April, it has sparked panic, vaccine production and now, a video game.

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BACKGROUND
Infection figures may be inexact

as nations stop testing each case

The World Health Organization has reported nearly 178,000 cases of swine flu including 1,462 deaths worldwide, though those numbers are believed to be a gross underestimate of the actual caseload, since hard-hit countries no longer test

all cases with flu-like symptoms. As the virus

has spread worldwide, countries have tried

different methods to slow it down, and pharmaceutical companies are now racing to produce

a swine flu vaccine.

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In an effort to raise awareness, Dutch researchers have created a game that challenges players to control a new pandemic.

"It is actually what is happening now, what is happening in the real world,” said Albert Osterhaus, head of virology at the Erasmus Medical Center, who designed "The Great Flu” game with colleagues.

The free game only can be played online at www.thegreatflu.com.

A World Health Organization spokesman said Monday the agency was not familiar with the game.

The game begins with images of bedridden patients and graveyards from the 1918 Spanish flu.

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