I am planning on showing “Contagion” today in my undergraduate disease ecology class. As my previous blog entry indicated, i think that the concepts that are illustrated in this excellent film include: disease spread and its elementary math; routes of contagion and the possibility of airborne viruses spreading quickly internationally, and locally; human impacts of infectious disease; and containment, prevention, surveillance, and control measures. I think that these concepts come alive in the film, and when students see the film, they will immediately see the relevance for our own society,