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Bok
04-04-2012, 03:09 AM
In the 2011 blockbuster thriller Contagion , a virus infects and kills 26 million people around the world. But even those who evade the virus are infected with something else: crippling fear . To contain the outbreak, the military imposes a quarantine. People stay indoors, refusing to interact with anyone outside their families. Touching anyone or anything becomes a risk, because the virus lingers everywhere. [More] (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ants-social-immune-system)

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