Best disaster flicks.

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BFR said:

curl-6 said:

My vote actually goes to a little-known British mockumentary called Smallpox 2002: Silent Weapon which follows a fictional pandemic of the now-eradicated disease. It's really well researched and creepily realistic.

Interesting fact about smallpox, only 2 labs on the planet have live samples of it.

Yeah I find it fascinating; the disease was one of my special interests for a while.

It used to kill around 2 million people a year as recently as the 60s, and killed more people in the 20th century than all that century's wars combined. We managed to eradicate it from the wild cos it can only infect humans, so if you starve it of hosts it dies out.

Scary part is, while only two labs are officially supposed to contain the virus, in 2014 someone found some old vials of it at a back of a NIH freezer:

https://www.science.org/content/article/six-vials-smallpox-discovered-us-lab