Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America
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| Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America | |
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| Written by | Richard McGee[1] |
| Directed by | Richard Pearce |
| Starring | Joely Richardson Stacy Keach Scott Cohen Ann Cusack Justina Machado David Ramsey |
| Theme music composer | Mark Adler |
| Country of origin | United States New Zealand |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producer | Dennis A. Brown |
| Cinematography | Ivan Strasburg |
| Running time | 83 minutes |
| Production company | ABC |
| Original release | |
| Network | ABC |
| Release | 9 May 2006 |
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Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America is an ABC two-hour TV movie, which first aired on May 9, 2006.[2] 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."[3]
A mutated bird flu virus spreads across the world. As panic spreads, the governor of Virginia quarantines neighborhoods where cases have cropped up, and federal officials confess they have no vaccine and scant supplies of antiviral drugs. Major socioeconomic disruption sets in, with shortages of food and medical supplies, power outages, and riots in the streets of New York.
Eventually, a vaccine is discovered in France and the pandemic begins to subside. However, near the end of the movie it is the discovered that a mutated virus has killed everyone in an Angolan village and a second wave of cases will begin causes further panic.[4]
Cast
- Joely Richardson as Dr. Iris Varnack
- Stacy Keach as Collin Reed
- Ann Cusack as Denise Connelly
- Justina Machado as Alma Ansen
- Scott Cohen as Governor Mike Newsome
- David Ramsey as Curtis Ansen
- John Atkinson as Ed Connelly
- Carolyn Dando as Lauren Connelly
- Kodi Smit-McPhee as Toby Connelly
- Sara Wiseman as Susan Wood
- Steve Bastoni as FEMA Director McGarrett
- Jonny Pasvolsky as Governor Newsome's Aide
- Jerome Ehlers as Chad Sinclair