The real cities of Pandemic Game Mode.
In 1907 cook Mary Mallon, 'Typhoid Mary', was found to be a healthy carrier of typhoid who had infected the families she worked for. She was quarantined on North Brother Island in the East River.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 3 people to infect; steady response. Standing policy: City That Never Sleeps. Crowds everywhere: +30% nucleotides. Once it falls: North Brother Island. Killer T packs are dispatched at 70 Detection and follow you through doors in 1 s.
Fun fact: United States · population 19.5 million · North America
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In 1924 pneumonic plague broke out in a Mexican-American neighbourhood of Los Angeles, killing about 30 people: the last airborne plague outbreak in the United States.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 3 people to infect; steady response. Standing policy: Freeway Sprawl. Fight rooms are 30% bigger with the same number of cells. Once it falls: Wildfire Smoke Season. Smog: a hazy circle of sight; cells see 25% less far; acid and clots last twice as long.
Fun fact: United States · population 12.9 million · North America
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In April 2009 the new H1N1 'swine flu' was identified in Mexico. Mexico City closed schools, restaurants and stadiums for days to slow what became the first pandemic of the century.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 4 people to infect; slow response. Standing policy: Metro Line 1 Rush Hour. Every fight room is a narrow metro tunnel: cells bunch up; +20% damage. Once it falls: Contingencia Ambiental. A tumor in every organ, growing 50% faster; tumors pay double.
Fun fact: Mexico · population 21.8 million · North America
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In 2003 SARS reached Canada. Vancouver isolated its first patient within hours and stopped the virus, while Toronto, a few days slower, suffered a large hospital outbreak.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 4 people to infect; very fast response. Standing policy: Universal Healthcare. Wounded cells regenerate 1.5% of their HP every second. Once it falls: Granville Island Market. A second Upgrade Chamber in every organ.
Fun fact: Canada · population 2.6 million · North America
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In 1951 measles swept through Greenland's west-coast settlements. With almost no one immune, nearly everybody in some villages caught it at once.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 4 people to infect; slow response. Standing policy: Tiny Health Service. The host only seeks medicine at 95 Detection. Once it falls: Sea Ice Breaks Up. A drop shaft in every organ; landing leaves a vesicle beside you.
Fun fact: Greenland · population 19,000 · North America
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On 28 January 1917 Carmelita Torres, a 17-year-old maid, refused the kerosene delousing bath against typhus that the US Public Health Service demanded of Mexican workers crossing the Santa Fe Street Bridge, the year after a gasoline delousing had set the city jail on fire and killed prisoners. The three-day Bath Riots followed, but the border disinfections went on for decades.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 4 people to infect; slow response. Standing policy: Paso del Norte. The pass between the mountains that named the city: shots pierce +1 cell. Once it falls: Chico's, L&J and Sun City Birria. Rolled tacos, the old cafe by Concordia Cemetery and the 4.9-star birria consomé: every host carries Well-Fed Cells (more nucleotides); auto-attacks heal 2% of their damage.
Fun fact: United States · population 870,000 · North America
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In 1854 a cholera outbreak in Soho killed over 600 people. Doctor John Snow mapped the deaths around the Broad Street water pump and had its handle removed, founding modern epidemiology.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 4 people to infect; fast response. Standing policy: Packed Underground. +24% fire rate. Once it falls: Broad Street Pump Map. The whole organ map is revealed from the start.
Fun fact: United Kingdom · population 9.6 million · Europe
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In May 1918 influenza swept Madrid and even the king fell ill. Spain's press, free of wartime censorship, reported it openly, so the world called it the 'Spanish flu'.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 4 people to infect; steady response. Standing policy: Tapas Culture. Regenerate 1 HP/s. Once it falls: Movida Madrileña. Mutation orbs appear 40% more often and each offers 1 more trait.
Fun fact: Spain · population 6.8 million · Europe
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Venice gave the world the word quarantine: ships had to wait 'quaranta giorni', forty days, before landing during the plague, and in 1423 it opened the first lazaretto, an island hospital for the sick.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 3 people to infect; slow response. Standing policy: Tourist Crowds. Pickups fly to you from across the room; +25% nucleotides. Once it falls: Plague Doctor's Beak. Bosses lose their signature skill.
Fun fact: Italy · population 260,000 · Europe
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On 24 March 1882 Robert Koch announced in Berlin that he had found the bacterium that causes tuberculosis. The date is now World Tuberculosis Day.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 5 people to infect; very fast response. Standing policy: Club Scene Stays Open. Ultimate charges 30% faster; every dash leaves a damaging ring. Once it falls: Charité Hospital. Doses can land during a boss fight; the boss heals 20% HP when one does.
Fun fact: Germany · population 3.9 million · Europe
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During the plague of 1771 tens of thousands died in Moscow, and the Plague Riot broke out when the authorities tried to stop crowds gathering at a holy icon.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 5 people to infect; very slow response. Standing policy: Official Silence. Killing an unaware cell raises no Detection and wakes nobody. Once it falls: Deep Metro Shelters. +4 rooms per organ; every fight room 25% smaller.
Fun fact: Russia · population 13 million · Europe
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During the 1918–1920 flu pandemic Japan's government put up posters urging people to wear masks in crowds, the start of Japan's long mask-wearing habit.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 5 people to infect; very fast response. Standing policy: Mask Etiquette. Every cell spawns with a 20% shield; nearly everyone on the street is masked. Once it falls: Ageing Population. Every host on the street carries Ageing Immune System.
Fun fact: Japan · population 37 million · Asia
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Plague reached Bombay in 1896 and killed tens of thousands. In 1897 Waldemar Haffkine developed the first plague vaccine in the city and tested it on himself.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 5 people to infect; slow response. Standing policy: Dharavi Lanes. Fight rooms are 30% smaller; +50% nucleotides. Once it falls: Monsoon Floods. Monsoon: double mucus in every organ; the Bloodstream current pulls 60% harder.
Fun fact: India · population 21 million · Asia
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During SARS in 2003 Beijing built Xiaotangshan Hospital, about a thousand beds, in roughly a week, and the outbreak there was over by the summer.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 6 people to infect; very fast response. Standing policy: Zero-Tolerance Policy. Detection never cools below 30 and rises 20% faster; no animals on the street. Once it falls: Lockdown Lifted. Doors never seal mid-fight: retreat and come back; the crowds double.
Fun fact: China · population 21.9 million · Asia
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Near Novosibirsk stands the VECTOR virology centre, one of only two places in the world officially allowed to keep live smallpox virus.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 5 people to infect; slow response. Standing policy: Trans-Siberian Railway. +24% move speed. Once it falls: Akademgorodok. CRISPR drops 3x as often and cuts bosses 8x instead of 4x.
Fun fact: Russia · population 1.6 million · Asia
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In 2003 Singapore fought SARS with temperature screening, a single designated hospital and strict home quarantine, and the WHO declared it SARS-free that May.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 4 people to infect; very fast response. Standing policy: Changi Air Hub. Start every organ with a random power-up beside you. Once it falls: Spotless Streets. Anything left on a room's floor is gone when you return; −15% nucleotides.
Fun fact: Singapore · population 5.9 million · Asia
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In 1717 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the British ambassador in Constantinople, watched Ottoman women inoculate children against smallpox with matter from a mild case, had her own son treated, and carried the practice to England, decades before Jenner's vaccine.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 5 people to infect; steady response. Standing policy: Grand Bazaar Haggling. A Mutagenic Pool in every organ, and each costs only 5% HP. Once it falls: Montagu's Inoculation, 1717. Every host on the street carries Trained Immunity (immune cells hit harder).
Fun fact: Türkiye · population 15.7 million · Middle East
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The Pasteur Institute of Iran opened in Tehran in 1920 to fight rabies, plague and cholera, and went on to make the country's own vaccines, from smallpox to BCG.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 5 people to infect; slow response. Standing policy: Qanat Tunnels. The boss waits in the shallowest dead end, never the deepest: a shortcut through every organ. Once it falls: Tehran Gridlock. Every room has Sluggish Cells (they move 20% slower).
Fun fact: Iran · population 16 million · Middle East
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In the 900s the physician al-Razi ran a hospital in Baghdad, chose its site (legend says) by hanging meat around the city and picking where it rotted slowest, and wrote the first book to tell smallpox and measles apart.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 6 people to infect; very slow response. Standing policy: House of Wisdom. Every room rolls one tier higher: more boons (and more drawbacks). Once it falls: Date Palm Harvest. Every room is Restorative (clearing heals 20% max HP).
Fun fact: Iraq · population 8.1 million · Middle East
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In 2012 a new coronavirus, MERS, was found in Saudi Arabia. Dromedary camels turned out to be its reservoir, and in 2015 an outbreak inside a Riyadh hospital infected over a hundred people before infection control stopped it.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 5 people to infect; fast response. Standing policy: Oil Wealth. RNA strands drop twice as often. Once it falls: Shamal Dust Storm. A dust haze leaves you a hazy circle of sight, and a crosswind drifts every shot, yours and theirs.
Fun fact: Saudi Arabia · population 7.7 million · Middle East
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Dubai's airport handles more international passengers than any other on Earth. In April 2020, with its flights grounded, the city turned its World Trade Centre into a 3,000-bed field hospital in a matter of days.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 4 people to infect; very fast response. Standing policy: 200 Nationalities. Every host on the street carries Endogenous Viral Genes: you start each run with a random trait. Once it falls: Burj Khalifa Views. The boss arena is 40% bigger: more room to circle.
Fun fact: United Arab Emirates · population 3.7 million · Middle East
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When bubonic plague reached the nearby port of Santos at the end of the 1890s, São Paulo founded the Butantan Institute to make serum. Today it is one of Latin America's biggest vaccine makers.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 5 people to infect; very slow response. Standing policy: Megacity Traffic. +30% damage. Once it falls: Helicopter Commuters. Your dash becomes a teleport through walls.
Fun fact: Brazil · population 22.6 million · South America
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In 1871 yellow fever killed about 14,000 people in Buenos Aires, close to one in twelve residents. Wealthy families fled north, reshaping the city.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 5 people to infect; fast response. Standing policy: Shared Mate Gourds. Kills heal 2 HP. Once it falls: Superclásico Derby. Two bosses share the arena; the second has 55% HP.
Fun fact: Argentina · population 15.6 million · South America
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In 1991 cholera returned to the Americas for the first time in a century, starting on Peru's coast and in Lima, and spread across Latin America.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 5 people to infect; steady response. Standing policy: Thin Andean Air. Dashes recharge 40% slower and go 20% less far. Once it falls: Combis Back on the Road. Hunter squads and Killer T packs enter from a random door.
Fun fact: Peru · population 11 million · South America
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Manaus sits where the dark Rio Negro meets the sandy Solimões, and its mosquitoes make dengue fever a constant public-health fight.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 6 people to infect; very slow response. Standing policy: Remote Rainforest. Hunter squads, packs and summons take 3x as long to become active; two extra fruit bats roam. Once it falls: Oxygen Convoy of 2021. Bosses cannot summon; they fire a radial burst instead.
Fun fact: Brazil · population 2.3 million · South America
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In 1947 cholera spread through Egypt, killing about 10,000 people before mass vaccination and quarantine brought it under control.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 5 people to infect; steady response. Standing policy: Khan el-Khalili Bazaars. Fight rooms 40% bigger with 40% more cells; +40% nucleotides. Once it falls: Kasr Al Ainy Hospital. Bosses start the fight already shielded (an 18% HP bubble, no reinforcements).
Fun fact: Egypt · population 22 million · Africa
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In 2014 a traveller brought Ebola to Lagos. Doctor Ameyo Adadevoh kept him isolated, and Nigeria contained the outbreak at 20 cases.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 6 people to infect; very slow response. Standing policy: Packed Danfo Buses. 35% of placed cells arrive with a twin at 60% HP: more kills, more loot. Once it falls: Third Mainland Bridge. +3 rooms per organ; the boss waits at least 5 rooms from the start.
Fun fact: Nigeria · population 15.9 million · Africa
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In 1980 a man sick with Marburg virus travelled to Nairobi Hospital. A doctor who treated him caught it too but survived, a case later made famous by the book The Hot Zone.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 5 people to infect; steady response. Standing policy: Livestock Markets. Cows, chickens and pigs on every street; every host is a Mixing Vessel. Once it falls: M-Pesa Mobile Money. Bosses drop double nucleotides and always an RNA strand.
Fun fact: Kenya · population 5.3 million · Africa
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In 1901 bubonic plague arrived in Cape Town on ships supplying the Boer War, and the authorities used it as a reason for forced removals to Ndabeni.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 5 people to infect; fast response. Standing policy: Variant Sequencing Lab. Learned shot-type resistance is 60% instead of 30%. Once it falls: Groote Schuur Hospital. Bosses spawn with armor worth 25% of their HP.
Fun fact: South Africa · population 4.8 million · Africa
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In 2017 Madagascar had a large pneumonic plague outbreak in its cities, including Antananarivo, with over 2,000 cases before it was brought under control.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 5 people to infect; very slow response. Standing policy: Island Isolation. The Cytokine Storm never responds to your damage. Once it falls: Cyclone Season. Pits in 90% of fight rooms, up to 4 per room; hazards fire twice as often.
Fun fact: Madagascar · population 3.9 million · Africa
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In 1900 bubonic plague broke out around The Rocks in Sydney. Over a hundred people died, and the city paid a bounty for every rat caught.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 6 people to infect; very fast response. Standing policy: Closed Borders. Hunter squads come at 20/45/65 Detection instead of 35/60/80. Once it falls: Rat Bounty of 1900. Elites drop RNA strands and pay triple nucleotides.
Fun fact: Australia · population 5.3 million · Oceania
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In November 1918 the influenza pandemic swept Auckland, killing over a thousand people in a few weeks.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 6 people to infect; very fast response. Standing policy: Go Hard, Go Early. Every Killer T pack is one generation ahead and follows you through doors in 0.3 s. Once it falls: Elimination Strategy. Detection never cools below 40; cells see 25% farther.
Fun fact: New Zealand · population 1.7 million · Oceania
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In 2018 polio returned to Papua New Guinea for the first time in 18 years, and nationwide vaccination drives reached Port Moresby's children.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 5 people to infect; very slow response. Standing policy: Few Clinics. The host never takes medicine. Once it falls: Polio Returns 2018. Every room is Alarmed: Detection rises 60% faster inside.
Fun fact: Papua New Guinea · population 400,000 · Oceania
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During the 1918–1919 flu pandemic, ships arriving at Perth's port of Fremantle were held at the Woodman Point Quarantine Station, where hundreds of passengers fell ill.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 5 people to infect; fast response. Standing policy: Most Isolated City. Reinforcements always arrive across the room, as far from you as it allows. Once it falls: Woodman Point Quarantine. Bosses are pinned near the room centre, with 20% more HP.
Fun fact: Australia · population 2.2 million · Oceania
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Antarctic crews know the 'crud': colds that sweep the station when summer flights bring new people, then die out over the isolated winter.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 6 people to infect; fast response. Standing policy: Isolation Protocols. Every room is Fortified (cells have 30% more HP). Once it falls: Polar Medevac. Boss summons arrive as elites (Rare or better).
Fun fact: Research base · population 1,000 · Antarctica
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In 1983 Vostok Station recorded −89.2 °C, the coldest natural temperature ever measured on Earth, above a lake sealed under the ice for millions of years.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 7 people to infect; slow response. Standing policy: Ancient Lake Microbes. Mutation orbs roll much rarer traits. Once it falls: Lake Vostok Breached. Every mutation orb offer is at least Rare.
Fun fact: Research base · population 13 · Antarctica
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In 1978 Emilio Palma was born at Esperanza Base, the first person known to be born in Antarctica.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 6 people to infect; steady response. Standing policy: Families on Base. Kills heal 4 HP. Once it falls: Hope Bay. The boss waits asleep across the room until you hit it.
Fun fact: Research base · population 55 · Antarctica
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In 1999 the South Pole Station's only doctor, Jerri Nielsen, found a lump in her breast and treated herself with chemotherapy drugs airdropped in the dark of winter.
In the game
A city in Pandemic Game Mode. 8 people to infect; very fast response. Standing policy: Sealed Habitat. Sterile station: no pits, shafts or hazards, but cells have 25% more HP. Once it falls: Aurora Australis. Every power-up is Chain Lightning and lasts 50% longer.
Fun fact: Research base · population 150 · Antarctica
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