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    'Contagion' scores big at the box office

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Hello everybody welcome to fox -- and Steve Doocy in the studio he's -- -- The movie contagion scored top spot -- Box office this past weekend and it has audiences bugging out over the fears of germs -- -- kind of been acting as they did kill over like that.

But his -- just a movie isn't just saw Hollywood -- Fox medical -- teams doctor mark C code gave us his prognosis this morning.

Nobody want to see this movie and used today.

The reason I -- -- -- is because well.

For once and this is very refreshing to me having studied pandemic -- written books on pandemic this is the first time I've ever seen a movie or anything like this.

That's actually realistic and accurate I gotta tell you.

They base it on a real virus called the -- virus that's found in fruit bats and does spread to pigs the way the movie shows it has had outbreaks in humans.

That's all accurate the Center for Disease Control response putting -- and a level four labs having stadiums where they can put people were really sick.

That entire response is accurate.

So I was very excited to see real science in this.

But here's where it gets -- -- -- first of all that occurs in ninety minutes or two hours makes you feel like the world is ending right before your eyes right number two.

Here's another point of science -- as viruses spread more and more.

Among humans in this one is very unlikely to do that they usually become less deadly if not more deadly -- this one is playing off of the nineteen eighteens the Spanish flu hype.

Where it's having mutations and it's getting more deadly.

And there's no vaccine and they can't control it so all of that is very very likely want to tell people out there it's exciting to see this it's not gonna happen.

Plug makes me feel better meanwhile doctors -- only problem with the -- A medical correspondent from another cable news channel makes a cameo and He says it should have been him.

If you want to see Mark Siegel in the next big movie where people are scared.

With -- female.

He would appreciate the -- present -- Meanwhile could watching sponge Bob square pants actually harm your children.

Well researchers from the University of Virginia found fast pace cartoons can -- and damage kids' attention span.

Memory those are talking about her -- to constant changes of setting.

Being blamed poor over taxing these young brains Howard the kids is this drill is to watch slower shows.

They did better on cognitive test won't get thank you very much notice that there.

That's your -- -- I can get it.

I'm Steve is He started off with a morning -- -- spreads -- eastern right here in the Fox News Channel will see you tomorrow.

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