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1979 · 88 mins · English
Directed by
Ed Hunt
Starring
Daniel Pilon, Kate Reid, Barbara Gordon, John Kerr, Michael J. Reynolds, Céline Lomez

An outbreak of a deadly bacterium known as M‑3 causes victims to die in excruciating pain from violent body spasms. A woman, unknowingly a carrier, escapes from the hospital and goes on the run, inadvertently contaminating people she meets and even fast‑food supplies. Unaware that she also harbors a possible cure, her frantic flight spreads the plague further.

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