I was contacted just today by a high school in San Francisco looking to buy copies of Pandemic in bulk, to teach concepts about the spread of infectious disease. The University of Leicester’s medical school in the UK used it for a couple of years to teach communication cooperation and found some good results with it. But mostly I hear this stuff just anecdotally. And there’s been some contact from epidemiologists who worked in West Africa and loved the game. (The shop closed in 2012.) They are also using it in an exhibition on cultural reactions to the spread of infectious diseases ( opening in late May).

A: I was told the game was sold in their gift shop.Ī: News to me, too.