| Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America | |
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| Written by | Richard McGee[1] |
| Directed by | Richard Pearce |
| Starring | Joely Richardson Stacy Keach Scott Cohen Ann Cusack Justina Machado David Ramsey |
| Theme music composer | Mark Adler |
| Country of origin | United States New Zealand |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Producer | Dennis A. Brown |
| Cinematography | Ivan Strasburg |
| Running time | 83 mins |
| Production company | ABC |
| Original release | |
| Release | 9 May 2006 |
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Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America is an ABC two-hour TV movie, which first aired on May 9, 2006.[2] In the movie, an American businessman visiting China is infected, and carries the deadly mutated bird flu virus back via jetliner to the USA, soon it spreads throughout the country then the rest of the world. Before the movie ends, riots erupt, armed mobs try to hijack vaccines, and authorities predict that up to 350 million people will die worldwide."[3]