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Bird flu movie sparks panic calls and enquiries
Medical News Today
May 10, 2006
After watching the ABC movie ‘Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America' last night, telephone helplines from all over the USA have been receiving calls from anxious viewers. At Medical News Today we have received 112 emails from people in the USA with questions ranging from ‘How could other countries be so selfish as to withhold vaccines?' to ‘I woke up with a temperature and a cough this morning, do you think I may have caught the bird flu?'
As the movie was pure fiction, not a documentary, and bird flu has not yet arrived in the USA, it baffles me how people can be angry at other countries or wonder whether they are infected.
Possibly, the movie may have awoken public awareness. The trouble is, ‘Fatal Contact' depicts such an unlikely scenario that one wonders what kind of preparations people will now be making as a result of watching the film. If a group of people next door start coughing, will people who live in that street rush to the local supermarket and stock up on vital supplies and medicines?
Medical News Today
May 10, 2006
After watching the ABC movie ‘Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America' last night, telephone helplines from all over the USA have been receiving calls from anxious viewers. At Medical News Today we have received 112 emails from people in the USA with questions ranging from ‘How could other countries be so selfish as to withhold vaccines?' to ‘I woke up with a temperature and a cough this morning, do you think I may have caught the bird flu?'
As the movie was pure fiction, not a documentary, and bird flu has not yet arrived in the USA, it baffles me how people can be angry at other countries or wonder whether they are infected.
Possibly, the movie may have awoken public awareness. The trouble is, ‘Fatal Contact' depicts such an unlikely scenario that one wonders what kind of preparations people will now be making as a result of watching the film. If a group of people next door start coughing, will people who live in that street rush to the local supermarket and stock up on vital supplies and medicines?
