Who remembers the movie Outbreak?

[Jeneral2885]

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http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-California/2014/10/06/Actress-of-Ebola-Film-Outbreak-Was-Freaked-Out-to-Discover-Patient-Lived-Near-Her-in-Dallas

Young actress now and adult recalls her small role and how it is getting real in Texas.

But unlike the movie, it is proven you can't contain Ebola for a bioweapon.

[Louisiana1976]

1. Was it based on the Robin Cook novel of the same name? I have the book, but haven't read it yet.

[NaturalHigh]

19. No. That's a pretty good novel, though.

I cared a lot more about the epidemic than I did about some of the personal who is attracted to whom angles, though.

[Beaverhausen]

36. Yes, it was. And Ebola is nothing like the virus in that book

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/10/10/cnn-turns-to-outbreak-fiction-writer-for-ebola/201113

CNN Tonight turned to ophthalmologist and fiction writer Dr. Robin Cook to hype unsubstantiated fears about the transmission of the Ebola Virus and the CDC's grasp on the situation.

Presenting Cook as "The Man Who Wrote The Book On Ebola," host Don Lemon called Cook's 1987 fiction thriller Outbreak, which details an Ebola outbreak in the U.S.," prophetic." Lemon allowed Cook to speculate that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) cannot adequately protect Americans from Ebola, and that despite the CDC's assertions to the contrary, the virus may live in the air or mutate into a form that can spread as an aerosol.

Cook's theories on the transmission of Ebola are out of step with nearly every expert from international health agencies and the CDC. As Vox reported, "basically every health agency in the world agrees" that Ebola cannot be transmitted through the air. The CDC definitively says: "Ebola is not spread through the air or by water, or in general, by food."

Medical experts further agree that it's highly unlikely Ebola could mutate into a form that alters its mode of transmission. That type of mutation would be unprecedented according to Columbia University virologist Vincent Racaniello, who wrote: "We have been studying viruses for over 100 years, and we've never seen a human virus change the way it is transmitted," and that "There is no reason to believe that Ebola virus is any different from any of the viruses that infect humans and have not changed the way that they are spread."

[Jeneral2885]

43. that's just one opinion

anyone else?

[Beaverhausen]

45. One opinion about what?

using an opthamologist/writer as your medical expert is pretty stupid if you ask me.

[truebrit71]

2. breitbart.com?

[blkmusclmachine]

3. I remember the movie An Early Frost (1985)

[Brigid]

4. Not really.

But "Contagion" was on last night.

[cui bono]

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[demmiblue]

11. I guess I am in the minority.

Breitbart.com would be an instant hide from me.

[cui bono]

12. Even though the content of the post is not offensive, rude, hurtful, etc.?

Come on, we are not supposed to be knee jerk reactionaries on here.

[demmiblue]

13. Linking to that site is offensive, IMO.

Call it what you want.

[Egnever]

28. +1

[belzabubba333]

15. we are not supposed to be knee jerk reactionaries on here.

[NaturalHigh]

25. I don't click on the site because it's so damned slow.

Hiding the post just because of that link would have been ridiculous, though, especially since it's hardly some sort of right-wing rant on a political angle.

[SidDithers]

16. Me too. I'm fucking sick and tired of links to dumbass right-wing sources...

and racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic hate sites and authors. Who gives a fuck what they think at breitbart.com.

DU used to have standards. Now, it seems like anything is accepted.

Sid

[Turborama]

30. Likewise. There's always an anti-Obama admin agenda behind everything on there

"Otherwise inappropriate" is the reason I would vote lock.

Seeing so many people defend it is interesting, though.

[PeaceNikki]

17. me, too

[Egnever]

26. Add me to the minority then.

Article is fear mongering at best but then that's what breitbart is good at.

[kestrel91316]

32. I'm appalled that ANY DUer would ever go to that site.

[bigwillq]

21. Glad it wasn't locked.

Can't believe folks are freaking about a website. Don't like it, don't click it.

[Egnever]

27. Da fuq?

That's brietbart Mr take down Acorn fame. Might as well link to fucking Hannity.

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/03/andrew-breitbart-and-james-okeefe-ruined-him-and-now-he-gets-100-000/273841/

[bigwillq]

29. I know who it is.

Doesn't bother me. I just don't click on links to that site. That is all. Pretty simple. If one doesn't like it, they are free to not click on that link as well, or start their own OP with a different link.

[840high]

37. Sane advice.

[Jeneral2885]

39. Go blame google

Ok? It's the first link.

[Live and Learn]

6. I remember it. Dustin Hoffman and full blown panic

over the disease that was obviously a reference to Ebola.

Another one of the reasons I have been saying that we have been quite aware of the disease and its potential for decades but have done nothing because for some unexplained reason we thought it would be limited to Africa and there wasn't enough money to be made by drug companies in saving African lives. Hubris strikes again.

[HereSince1628]

7. IIRC it had years development of an antiserum for hundreds squeezed into hours

otherwise, I like movies with monkeys.

[kysrsoze]

38. I remember how horrifically bad that movie was. It was idiotic. One star would be pushing it.

[whatchamacallit]

8. Contagion was on last night

Seemed timely...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contagion_(film)

[Bluenorthwest]

9. The virus in the book and film is not Ebloa, it's a fictional character.

It's 'the Ebola movie' like 'The Stand' is the flu movie. Kind of. But not really.

[leeroysphitz]

10. I thought the sequel, Outbreak II Electric Boogaloo, was much better. n/t

[zappaman]

14. Breibart.com?

[ohnoyoudidnt]

18. I think I am going to take advice of the scientists/doctors more seriously than an actress.

That doesn't mean I don't think this had the potential to become a very serious problem, but why should her opinion carry any more weight than anyone else without experience and education in infectious disease?

[Jeneral2885]

42. Ok

suit yourself then.

[Texasgal]

20. Apparently too many people

recall it.

[NaturalHigh]

22. Sadly, the most unrealistic thing about the movie...

was how relatively easy it was to stop the epidemic.

[greatlaurel]

23. Please find a link to the story at a reputable source.

breitbart is not a reputable news source for anything.

Thank you.

[Jeneral2885]

41. oh shut up

go find yourself then. Thankless.

[SidDithers]

24. Ricky Schroeder was in the TV miniseries version of The Andromeda Strain...

What's his informed opinion of the current Ebola outbreak?

Sid

[Turborama]

31. Request from the Grammar Police: please remove the abhorrent apostrophe in your title

It is repugnant and irksome for a huge swathe of DUers.

Thank you in advance, DUGP.

[SidDithers]

33. Tea Party spelling and grammar to go with the Tea Party link to breitbart...

Somehow, it seems appropriate.



Sid

[kestrel91316]

35. Yep. I think we know all we need to know about this one.

[Jeneral2885]

40. name calling

without reason. Go dunk yourself.

[SidDithers]

44. It's your link to breitbart...

Big fan of his work, are you?

Sid

[cherokeeprogressive]

34. MY EYES!

The word breitbart appeared on my screen! Now I have to pour bleach in my eyes and burn my laptop!

Otherwise, your post is disjointed and doesn't make a whole lotta sense.