![]() He was invited last year to help CDC staff with their public awareness campaigns, with CDC director Ali S Khan claiming the game 'creates a compelling world that engages the public on serious public health topics.’Įconomics graduate Mr Vaughan said he is now in 'detailed' talks with major charities about giving away some of the game's profits towards the Western effort to contain the disease. Several players have joked about fleeing to Greenland while one Twitter user, wrote: 'Ebola is just the real life version of Plague Inc'.īut the entrepreneur insists the app can be a force for good, and is now in talks with charities about putting some of the proceeds towards victims. The app's ability to auto-post to Twitter had led to messages many would think distasteful - such as: 'My virus, called Ebola, just wiped out the world in 544 days!'.Īnother declared: 'Victory! Ebola has successfully eliminated all life on Earth'. The total number of players last week was almost 4million - a rise of 923,000 on the figure two weeks before that. Last week more than 430,000 new players downloaded the app, he told MailOnline - a rise of 147,000, more than 50 per cent, on the same figure two weeks earlier. The game was already popular long before recent headlines over the outbreak, said Mr Vaughan, but it had a sharp rise in use in the last few weeks. ![]() ![]() It has consistently dominated the iPhone download charts and hit the number one paid-for spot in the UK last week.
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