contagion
Nitasha Tiku · 07/25/13 02:14PM
Terrifying New Respiratory Virus MERS Claims New Victims
Maggie Lange · 05/30/13 08:06AMNew Fatal Virus Infects Two in France, Likely Spreads Person-to-Person
Taylor Berman · 05/12/13 07:50PMA deadly new strain of coronavirus, a SARS-like respiratory virus, has now spread to France, where it has infected at least two people. But it gets even more exciting. After the French health ministry's confirmation of the second infection, the World Health Organization announced that it's likely that the virus can be passed person-to-person.
There is a Bat Flu and We're All Gonna Die (Gwyneth Paltrow Likely First)
Emma Carmichael · 02/28/12 04:20PMSorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the world as we know it is almost certainly going to end. Scientists have found evidence of flu in bats and are reporting the existence of a "never-before-seen virus whose risk to humans is unclear," which is almost exactly how the devastating virus in the movie Contagion is billed.
It's 1994 All Over Again
Richard Lawson · 09/19/11 10:49AMComment of the Day: Gwyneth Paltrow's Last Words
Richard Lawson · 09/12/11 05:30PMEveryone Loves to Blame Gwyneth Paltrow
Richard Lawson · 09/12/11 09:50AMSneeze Fetishists Divided Over Sexiness of Contagion
Seth Abramovitch · 09/01/11 09:18PMThe Gawker Guide to Fall Movies
Richard Lawson · 08/31/11 11:10AMContagion: Watch Gwyneth Paltrow Get Sick and Die
Seth Abramovitch · 07/14/11 12:49AMHere's the trailer for Steven Soderbergh's latest film, Contagion, in which Gwyneth Paltrow plays the Patient Zero of an avian flu epidemic that [SPOILER ALERT] kills a lot of people. Including Gwyneth! No kale juice cleanses or hot stone massages are going to clear up this nasty little bug, no sir. As if that isn't a selling point already, you get Matt Damon as her "grieving" husband (he's so good, you almost believe him), Kate Winslet as a recovering Purellaholic, and Marion Cotillard as a sneeze-ballistics expert. And we haven't even mentioned Jude Law or Morpheus yet! But whatever, the real breakout star of this movie is the bearded doctor who gets to say, "Your wife is dead." That guy is about to become the most popular man on the planet. Congrats, dude! You made it. [via NYM]