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ABC's avian flu disaster movie "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America" could do some good if it prompts some basic emergency planning, but keep in mind that the morbid extravaganza is fiction, not fact, doctors and emergency planners say. The production will air at 9 tonight on WTNH-Channel 8 as part of "sweeps week," when networks try to boost ratings any way they can.
That includes taking a potential public health threat and spinning off a worst-case scenario in which federal and state officials are oddly unfamiliar with avian flu, quarantines are enforced with barbed wire and riot police, lots of bodies have to be disposed of and panic reigns.See the full content of this document
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Tv Movie On Bird Flu May Bring Action
"I sometimes wonder what the motivation is of the television networks. The worst thing w...
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