Talk:Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America

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I watched about five minutes of it, and it looked pretty freaky, but could someone add a more detailed plot summary (inc. spoilers, etc)? Mazin07 ^(C)/_(T) 20:02, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

H5N1 mutates into a pandemic strain in China, an American businessman catches it in China and brings it to America. Attempts to control its spread by quarantine don't work. Throughout the movie it keeps doubling in death victims each month (or so) (like 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, million ... not 2,4,6,8...). Governments break promices to deliver medical help. Food shortages. Vast pits of dead bodies. It mutates a second time into a strain that is unaffected by antivirals. It mutates a third time into an even more deadly strain at the end of the movie killing 100% of some African village and the words that this 100% deadly strain is "out there" is voiced as the screen shows a flock of migratory birds flying away. WAS 4.250 20:22, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

People have made a big deal that this is fiction, only a movie, and "We aren't going to use barbed wire." Well, everything in the movie could happen. The whole point of the current scare is that it could happen, not that it will happen. And unlike an asteroid hit, we don't even have a good guess about probabilities because H5N1 is acting different than all previous known flu strains, and so far its mutations have only made it more dangerous not less dangerous. The world's top virologist, paid by the USA and WHO to work on researching H5N1 says the worst case scenerio is 50% of mankind dying. But no one knows what is most likely to happen .. or when. Prepandemic vaccines are scheduled to be available 2007-2008. Cross your fingers and have a two month supply of food and water just in case. WAS 4.250 20:38, 10 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The people that call the H5N1 threat a "media scare" have not read the avian flu article and probably do not know what they are talking about. If really a pandemic will happen and the death rate will exceed 20% percent than in today's world where everyone is perfectly informed the entire western society will probably fail, it will be panic and "every man for himself" so you can forget about counting even on the army wich will probably have too shoot deserters on the spot. My advice stock up on food medical suplies, maybe weapons and start praying, I will (an atheist is saying this). The highest number of possibble death cases given by a scientist (who knows what he is talking about) is 1 billion worldwide, but that scientist was told to "shut up" and not spresd panic by his colleagues.

Mieciu K 17:50, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]