6. Outbreak: Monkeys Will No Longer Be Your Favourite Furry Animal
Since the Ebola outbreak, you've been convinced it's in an envelope on its way to your front door. The papers, the news, the signs up in all the doctors (because you're at the doctors every week and you take significant interest in epidemic updates)... Ebola is everywhere and you know you're inevitably going to catch it. In fact, you're pretty sure you've got the first signs right now (or maybe you just had a bit too much to drink on Saturday night). Outbreak is less comprehensive than Contagion, limiting the action to a small town in the USA. The fictional virus hits America after a small monkey is captured and brought back from Africa to sell on the black market from Cedar Creek, and causes victims to die from a hemorrhagic fever. The virus spreads like wildfire, through airborne and bodily contact. If you catch it, you'll have a raging fever, and then you'll bleed out - of everywhere. So basically, if you watch Outbreak, you'll never visit a zoo again. Which is an unfair compromise to have to make for anyone.
I love Stephen King and music festivals; I eat my toast upside down; I daydream about getting married probably a bit too much; and I wish every day for a pet sausage dog puppy (who never materialises – sob).
