Brian Amman, ecologist for the Centers for Disease Control, takes a look at disastrous pandemics from a variety of television shows and movies and breaks down how accurate their depictions really are. Find out how realistic pandemics are as portrayed in ‘Contagion,’ ‘World War Z,’ ‘Outbreak,’ ‘ER,’ ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes,’ ‘House,’ ‘The Walking Dead,’ ‘Pandemic,’ ‘E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial,’ The Andromeda Strain,’ ‘The Crazies,’ ‘The Girl with All the Gifts,’ ’28 Weeks Later,’ ‘The Thing’ and ‘The Hot Zone.’
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