Why Is Patient Zero Important In The Movie Contagion

In the movie “The Black Death” Osmund and the soldiers set out to find a necromancer that is supposedly raising plague victims from the dead. Although witchcraft may not have been against the law at that time, many people believed that they needed to earn God’s forgiveness and the only way to do that would be to get rid of everyone who was causing problems. According to the article “Black Death”, “Some people believed that the way to do this was to purge their communities of heretics and other troublemakers.” Ulric and his soldiers were sent, by the Bishop, to a remote village to find the necromancer and the other people in that village because the necromancer was producing problems. This gives the viewer of the movie a better look into what was taking place in England during the Black Death. The plot of the movie, while being a hypothetical scenario, is accurate considering the fact that it is something that could have happened.

Infectious epidemics and pandemics have happened all through mankind's history. “They remain the prime cause of death worldwide and will not be conquered during our lifetimes.” The flu of 1918 was one of the deadliest epidemics in history. “It infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide–about one-third of the planet’s population at the time–and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims. More than 25 percent of the U.S. population became sick, and some 675,000 Americans died during the pandemic.” No one knew how the virus spread, there were no antibiotics to fight it, and no flu shots to prevent it. In the final year of World War I, it struck terror in the hearts of people all across Europe and left more death in its wake than the combined military actions of the combatants. “It killed more Americans in a few months than World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the

After reading this news, I think it is important to raise public awareness in taking actions to protect people from these diseases. As the season is changing, there will be more illnesses come along. I was surprised

In August of last year, an adult in Pueblo County, Colorado succumbed to the bubonic plague. The Health Department did not specify who it was, just saying that it was an adult. This was the first case of someone contracting the plague in Pueblo County since 2004. It is thought that the person caught the disease from fleas on a dead animal. According to the CDC, about seven people every year contract the plague in the United States.

Diseases can be preventable and curable but many still manage to devastate on international scales, whether it was during the Middle Ages or today. These illnesses are sometimes underrated in their effects on the human race where symptoms can range from minimal to down-right devastating and painful. No matter where it started, they can bring devastating effects to the surrounding area. When someone wants to know about a disease, they want to know where it came from, it's symptoms, and how it affected the community in which it appeared. The Black Death, Ebola, and the Zika virus are examples of large-scale illnesses that vary in all three of these topics but still managed to threaten humans on a bigger scale than expected. Diseases like the

I watched the movie “Outbreak: Anatomy of a Plague”; this movie is about the epidemic of small pox in the city of Montreal in 1888. The movie compares the critical events of that era to our modern day, and how even though we are well advanced in medicine we still are unable to prevent an outbreak from possibly infecting thousands of people. Many of the people affected by the disease were the poor and young children making them stigmatized for the spread of the disease. Forcing that population to be transferred to hospital for quarantine in very poor conditions and over crowded wards. The modern day version of the incident was blaming a certain culture just because the first person diagnosed with the disease was from the Caribbean island, even though she was not the source of the spread of the disease.

In the infectious disease unit, the main focal point consisted of showing the audience how the spread of a major virus may occur in population. In this case, we were presented with two movies: Contagion and 28 Days Later. These movies both displayed an infectious disease, which is spread through animals causing harm to people. A scenario that presented in Contagion seemed to be realistic possibility because a simple transmission of disease from an animal can happen. If the virus is unknown and no vaccine is available, it could certainly cause a lot of harm to a large population of people. Likewise, another possibility was also presented in 28 Days Later, where the viewers see scientist talking about monkey being infected with a virus.

It’s amazing and scary at the same time not realizing everything that is going on in the world around us. The outbreak in San Diego is something that I probably would have never known happened if it wasn’t for you reading the article. Hep A is something that one can recover from although without treatment it can cause acute liver failure and this could lead to death in some. The biggest spreader is dirty hands, as we all know, and the city trying to make sure that everyone washes their hands is a start. After the outbreak the city did immunize almost 20,000 people and they are offering free immunizations to everyone. The city is also working with the county to install more handwashing stations across the city. With there being almost 400 people hospitalized and 16 deaths, I am sure this outbreak has affected everyone in the area.

The records and prediction of the world health organization for the number of people that would be infected by the pandemic in the near future.

Contagion is a movie that was released in 2011 which is based on fear, greed, heroism and greed and involves a lot of sick people. This movie is very scary and provides lessons in the field of virology and epidemiology. The movie is set at ever-changing challenges as well as threats of microbial origin that lead to the origin of casualties who vary from few individuals to lots and lots of millions of people. It has been described as a global pandemic as it affected many people all over the world. The outbreak of the disease has been depicted from the rise, vaccination and the prevention methods of a new disease.

At the end of their turn, they add one cube to the city they land on, but only if it won’t cause an outbreak. Patient zero can choose to not move and instead add 2 infection cards of their choosing back into the infection deck, shuffling afterward. As a third choice Patient zero can choose to not move and instead draw 2 cards from the infection deck. If patient zero doesn’t move then no cubes are added from patient zeros first action. The point of this player is to and a physical person to who is causing the spread of diseases without making the game overly difficult. Patient zero cannot be played if there are any epidemic cards put in the deck. Patient zero will have to make the decision each turn as to do they want to spread the diseases, add 2 infection cards back to the deck, or draw 2 cards from the infection deck to chance at causing an outbreak. If patient zero is in the same city as any of the other players for 2 turns in a row they will be cured taking them out of the

Even other areas are being affected by the outbreak as well. A basketball team caught the virus in a tournament. The virus only had one fatality being the coach. It’s a sad thing and they can’t do much about it but hope that it doesn’t kill to many people.

In our decade, there have been mass discoveries of ways to treat, cure and prevent infectious viruses. If you were to just Google infectious virus breakthroughs the results would almost seem endless. With the recent outbreak of the Ebola virus one might begin to forget or bypass any recent advances. There is no denying that the Ebola virus has already had a tragic effect on our globe, and with our 24-hour news update availability it is often uncertain of what is true and what is untrue.

Since the beginning, humanity has overcome diseases that could potentially wipe out the human race. From earliest forms diseases such as measles to modern day pandemics such as AIDS, mankind has survived throughout history. Though diseases have plagued society it was only after the outbreak of the HIV virus in 1981 that brought to attention the dangers of incurable diseases. Before this time, with World War I and II, and the Cold War, public fear was based on the potential chance of a nuclear destruction of the planet. Since the outbreak of the HIV in 1981, public anxiety has been displaced from nuclear winter to that of microbial plagues. The enemy was now no longer a visible foe but that of an unknown contagion with no knowable cure. Recently in 2009, with the outbreak of the Swine Flu (H1N1) Virus public alert of the dangers of contagions increased. Science Fiction films since the outbreak of HIV have reflected the public fear of the unknown and unbeatable contagions. Films such as Outbreak (1995), Contagion (2011) and the recent World War Z (2013) have shown audiences a creative window of possible outcomes of an epidemic and what man would do in order to stop the

The world has experienced a total of four pandemics within the twentieth century. These pandemics, as horrific and deadly as they are, have brought so much more positive advances to our health care system and how we prepare for biological threats. Although we are in the twenty-first century and we have advanced so far in healthcare, there is still the possibility of a deadly pandemic.