Uh-oh: ‘Contagion’ is for real, say scientists

Author: 
MIKE STOBBE | AP
Publication Date: 
Fri, 2011-09-16 02:33

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.
But Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, says the film is very plausible.
The team behind it used several expert consultants and went
to other lengths to get scientific details correct.
 

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