Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)

Directed by

Richard Pearce

Genre

action, drama, thriller, tv movie

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 23m

Rated

R18+

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 51 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American businessman picks up a deadly strain of bird flu in China and brings it back to the United States on a plane. The virus spreads across the country and around the world, and society begins to break down with riots and violence.

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What happens

Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America is an American-New Zealand made-for-television medical thriller/disaster film that first aired on the ABC television network on May 9, 2006. In the movie, an American businessman visiting China is infected, and carries the deadly mutated bird flu virus back via jetliner to the USA, soon it spreads throughout the country then the rest of the world. Before the movie ends, riots erupt, armed mobs try to hijack vaccines, and authorities predict that up to 350 million people will die worldwide." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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