Why is this first?
This game could use a number of improvements.
First of all, more interactivity. Once you get everything infected, you just click the GO button over and over again.
2. There should be more uprades.
3. More headlines. I saw "Over 50% of population killed" for the majority of the game.
4. Make more countries harder to infest. Not just west europe. The whole game might have been called "Infest west europe"
5. I'd like some animation to watch. Like actual news clips of riots, or doctors working on medicine. There should be a "watch the news button" or something.
6. There should be some story. I'd like to think that I'm a villain watching my new virus from some random island hideout or something, laughing my ass off and watching the news headlines.
7. I think the doctors should be able to come up with medicine to lesson the effects mid game or something, so that half of the game isn't just clicking a button. And then you have to evolve your disease some more.
when you finish all of this, then maybe it would deserve first place.
Good game though, it was fun the first 3 times I played it.