Starring: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Winslet, Marion Cotillard, Jude Law, and Laurence Fishburne Directed by: Steven Soderberg Screenplay by: Scott Z. Burns If you watched the credits of Rise of the Planet of the Apes, then you would have seen that a disease spread over the entire planet right? Contagion could easily be the longer version of that story. A new strain of bird flu has shown up in Hong Kong and has quickly spread to other parts of the world. It's infecting people at an alarming rate, but nobody's really sure how fast it's spreading. So, while the entire world is getting the flu and many people are dying, the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) and the WHO (World Health Organization) begin to work in secret on growing the virus and attempt to create a vaccine, but this could be a long process, and many more people could die. A medical blogger named Alan Krumwiede claims t...