"HA! Treating advanced Marburg with Afluria Quadrivalent? What'll those wacky writers think of next?"
But the thing that movies get most wrong about fighting deadly diseases is the fight itself: According to Rose, the best way to combat, say, the dreaded Zika virus isn't a dramatic montage in a clean room, but to clear blocked drains and recycle old tires -- in other words, get rid of the mosquito breeding grounds. But that's about as sexy as, well, recycling old tires. And nobody wants to watch a movie about that. Even if you cast Rene Russo's cheekbones and an adorable disease monkey.
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