🪙 4 November 2023: DAILYMAIL > Mindless Behavior On Earth! Just imagine if a paramyxovirus emerged that was as contagious as measles and as deadly as Nipah,' Michael Norris, Ph.D., assistant professor at the University of Toronto, said in a statement. - #Measles

 By STACY LIBERATORE 

FOR DAILYMAIL.COM

PUBLISHED: 07:32 EST, 4 November 2023 

UPDATED: 10:59 EST, 4 November 2023

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It is not hard to picture that scenario: the 2011 film Contagion was based on this exact kind of imagined paramyxovirus.

Starring Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kate Winslet, a woman returns home from a business trip in Hong Kong and brings back a lethal microbe that triggered a global pandemic - the disease was the Nipah virus.

'Influenza has been sequenced to death,' Benhur Lee, a virologist at Mount Sinai's Icahn School of Medicine, told The Atlantic.

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