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Hey, kids! Remember the bird flu? Sure you do - its what was going to Kill Us All just a few months ago. No, not tainted spinach. No, not racist Senatorial candidates from Virginia. Think all the way back to May. Every network and all the cable news channels went crazy over the thing, filling their news cycles with stories about how were just one man-on-chicken incident away from having the disease wipe out all of humanity. You know, bird flu! And then, I dunno, some white girl went missing in Cabo or whatever, and the news people forgot all about it, and so did we.
Well, lucky for us, before the news cycle ended, ABC was kind enough to make a TV movie about a worst-case scenario. (Because, hey, more Americans get their irresponsible fear-mongering from ABC than from any other source.) They called it "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America," because they wanted a title that was both TV movie-gener...Read the entire review
