Still, there are a few notable parallels between the scenario in "Contagion" and current events. For one, the movie's MEV-1 virus is a zoonotic disease, meaning it jumped from animals to people.

Contagion, starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Matt Damon looks at what would happen in the event of a virus spreading around the world. The Hollywood film Contagion showed the importance of securing ...

The Asian financial crisis, which erupted in 1997 in Thailand, awoke the world to "contagion," a new peril inherent to highly interconnected financial markets. Spreading quickly within and outside ...