How accurate is the new Steven Soderbergh movie Contagion, starring Matt Damon, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, and Gwyneth Paltrow? With influenza consultants Ian Lipkin and Laurie Garrett, Contagion is far more than mere science fiction.

We are a group of public health professionals, medical personnel, and academicians in the areas of microbiology, pathology and virology who are concerned because previous global epidemics claimed 50 to 100 million lives (about 2%-3% of those infected), but bird flu has a 50% fatality rate: which yields predictions of a billion dead worldwide.

You're invited to join so that you can tour our site--especially our site files which are designed to provide in depth coverage of potential dangers and which contain many articles to be found nowhere else on the web. We believe that this site is the finest site for the discussion of the coming H1N1-H5N1 pandemic.

Please notice under Group Email Addresses below on this page the related link to our Yahoo! science group VIROLOGY.


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