The Science of Contagion: Why You Should Be Scared of Hollywood’s Latest Pandemic Thriller

September 8, 2011

The virus begins in a bat, before spreading to domesticated pigs in an industrial pork farm built on recently cleared forestland. After a few invisible mutations, the virus jumps to a chef in the Chinese city of Macau, who was probably infected when blood from a sick pig he was preparing slipped into a cut on his fingers. (TIME)