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ABC TV Movie: Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America

Internet URL

http://www.pandemicflu.gov/news/birdfluinamerica.html  

Sponsoring Agency

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Description

On Tuesday, May 9 at 8 p.m., the ABC television network aired a made-for-TV movie titled "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America." The movie follows an outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu virus from its origins in a Hong Kong market through its mutation into a pandemic virus that becomes easily transmittable from human to human and spreads rapidly around the world. The Department of Health and Human Services prepared the following viewer's guide and some anticipated questions and answers to provide factual information for viewers of the movie.

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Review Date

5/23/2007