Frequently Asked Questions About Bird Flu

May 9, 2006 — -- The following is the Department of Health and Human Services' Viewers Guide to "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America," which airs tonight on ABC.

Tonight at 8, ABC will air a made-for-TV movie titled "Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America." The movie follows an outbreak of the H5N1 avian flu virus from its origins in a Hong Kong market through its mutation into a pandemic virus that becomes easily transmittable from human to human and spreads rapidly around the world.

The Department of Health and Human Services has prepared a Viewer's Guide and some anticipated questions and answers to provide factual information for the movie's viewers.