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Viral disaster movie

2011; Elsevier BV; Volume: 378; Issue: 9798 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0140-6736(11)61528-6

1474-547X

Sonia Shah,

Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology

It's hard to imagine a more alluring lesson in basic epidemiology than the one the lovely actress Kate Winslet delivers in Steven Soderbergh's new disaster movie, Contagion. Playing an epidemic intelligence service officer for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Winslet marches to a blackboard and, chalk in hand, succinctly defines for her viewers the terms "fomite" and "basic reproductive ratio". Public health education has never had it so good.