"Meat prices slumped due to concerns about mysterious pig deaths and bird-flu contagion risk," Asia economists at Standard Chartered said in a research report.
A final survey of 20th-century "plague literature" and paranoid epidemic fiction doesn't mention Steven Soderbergh's flu movie Contagion, but the book overall is fascinating in its grim sympathy.
And, on Wednesday, he began his event in Nevada by saying, "Crazy time we live in, you know, when people think there's something unusual about getting the flu"—a confusion of contagions.
And, on Wednesday, he began his event in Nevada by saying, "Crazy time we live in, you know, when people think there's something unusual about getting the flu" — a confusion of contagions.
He told them about the characteristics of the flu, about its statistics regarding contagion and deaths, about the possibility of mutation into humans.
The virus does not have the same instant contact contagion as the flu.
Architects believed that sunlight, fresh air and uncluttered living spaces would banish the contagions of tuberculosis and flu.
How well they do will determine whether the Asian flu is really over or becomes a ragin' contagion.
Save the toddler, save the world is the premise of "Flu," a South Korean riff on Steven Soderbergh's "Contagion" that thumbs its nose at that film's measured restraint.
We're really not sure, but it seems the actual contagion in question is weaponized bird flu, which one character dramatically describes as having been weaponized by the birds themselves.
