A real-life event reportedly inspired the autopsy scene with Gwyneth Paltrow in Steven Soderbergh's Contagion.

As the contagion spreads to millions of people worldwide, societal order begins to break down as people panic.

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 2011 film "Contagion" opens to the sound of a woman coughing. The universal sound of sickness, her cough is heavy and full of mucous. It comes from Beth Emhoff, played by Gwyneth Paltrow ...

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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 ...

A pair of criminals infect the president of the United States with a deadly virus. His only hope is to give in to their demands, but he refuses to cooperate with terrorists. Now it is up to Dr ...