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ABC's Bird Flu movie

Some experts say ABC's made-for-television movie tonight - Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America - could cause panic.

Being a movie -ABC calls it the "thinking man's disaster movie." - of course, it takes the worst case scenario, what with 2 million dead in the U.S. and 40% work absenteeism.

Tom Shales in The Washington Post says

Plagues, of course, are not something to be made light of, but the movie is so brutally relentless in depicting the effects of the disease -- replete with shots of mass graves, blood-soaked human organs and "CSI''-like close-ups of germs -- that it becomes more numbing than alarming. It's a cautionary tale with no recommendations on what precautions to take.

No surprise that it's showing during May "sweeps."

Still, it may inspire people to prepare themselves and their loved ones for the days, even weeks, they may have to spend at home if a pandemic breaks out.

Do you have enough food, water, medicines and other essentials to last for a good period of time?