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