BBC NEWS | Technology | Battling swine flu in cyberspace
Inder Bugarin
BBC Mundo, Brussels
Grab from flu game, Erasmus Medical Centre. The game shows how well, or badly, a player handled the outbreak
Like many other nations, the Netherlands is battling swine flu on many fronts.
At the forefront of the fight against the pandemic are the ranks of specialized doctors and millions of anti-viral tablets. But it also has one unusual weapon to call on - a videogame designed by experts at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam.
Dubbed "The Great Flu", the game is based on the threat that the emergence of a new flu virus and its rapid spread across the globe would pose to humanity. read more
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