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Uh-oh: Scientists say film 'Contagion' is for real - Yahoo!

Uh-oh: Scientists say film 'Contagion' is for real - Yahoo!
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  1. RAYLOKESeptember 18, 2011 at 9:00 AM

    YET ANOTHER KIND OF NEWER WAY TO ''Twist'' ...
    Yes, it could happen. But it's a stretch.
    "Contagion," a Hollywood thriller that opened last weekend, rocketed to No. 1 at the box office through its gripping tale of a fictional global epidemic driven by a new kind of virus. Audiences have gasped in horror at what happens to Gwyneth Paltrow.
    Before it was out, the movie made real-life disease investigators anxious, too, though for a different reason: They had worried the filmmakers would take so many artistic liberties with the science that the result would be an incredible movie that was ... not credible.
    Well, cue the applause.
    "It's very plausible," said Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which would investigate such an outbreak.
    A new virus jumping from animals to humans? Nothing fictional about that. Global spread of a disease in a few days? In this age of jet travel, absolutely. A societal meltdown if things get bad? Plan on it.
    Yikes. The only bit of relief here is that several experts think the odds are pretty long that a new virus could be both so deadly and contagious at the same time.
    The team behind the film used several expert consultants and went to other lengths to get scientific details correct.

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