Review – Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague

Though this is the usual pseudo-apocalyptic gloom and doom about humanity’s continuing vulnerability to killer plagues, this one has a creative twist. It’s two stories in one, a series of re-enactments of a 1891 smallpox outbreak that devastated Montreal combined with speculative drama about the possible effects of a similar epidemic in the 21st century. Though the show is a little light on the hard epidemiology and a little heavy on the germs-are-scary stuff, overall it’s a good mix of medicine and entertainment. Mildly amusing