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Why the internet is booming with doomsday material

A bat drops a fruit, a pig eats the fruit, a human eats the pig and you have a global viral outbreak. It’s the plot of the 2011 Steven Soderbergh film, ‘Contagion’.Search interest, an index of how many times a term has been searched on Google as a ratio of all searches, from India for the film spiked from 11 in the second week of March to 54 last week. Everyone seems to be watching it.