Contagion Documentary

Voluntary actions are important because it saves a lot of manpower when the public can have a basic preparation for the disease and prevention from the epidemic by themselves. Moreover, having self-protecting ability and self-efficacy is crucial when facing to a communicative disease. Therefore, government can encourage individuals and commercial facilities to follow their instructions and have a basic understanding of a basic health care, so the public can take measures immediately when an epidemic break out. Also, how to make individuals to follow these instructions is a big problem for public health. In 1819 Spanish influenza, “when Copeland met with representatives from New York City street car companies, theaters, and movie houses, he found them more than eager to help publicize influenza control measures as a way to head off potentially profit-killing closures” (Tomes 55). The public health department realized how to encourage prevention measures was to make use of individuals’ emotional reactions that they opposed those instructions because they feared to lose their income. Instead, government inspired the public to obey another instruction that brought less cost. In order to not obey a more rigorous order, individuals have a great enthusiasm to follow an order that brings less loss. As a result, government can take advantage of this psychology of the public to make policy. Actually, in an epidemic, that only the public health makes every effort to ask individuals follow their instruction is not enough. What’s important is to arouse individuals’ voluntary awareness of healthy preventive methods and their self-control of personal health habits. In 1918 Spanish Flu, public health made such requirement that “the city’s physicians to begin a voluntary program reporting suspected cases and

Geraldine Brook’s novel, Year of Wonders is based on a true story which recounts a 17th Century Plague, which struck the English village of Eyam and put many in strife. The story revolves around the protagonist, Anna Frith as she develops strength throughout the novel from being a maid in the beginning of the novel and eventually becomes a midwife. Similarly, Steven Soderbergh’s Film, Contagion is set in 21st Century America, which narrates the epidemic of the MEV1 virus, which causes dispute amongst many characters and has a manipulative effect on the characters in the film. In both the text and the novel, Diseases not only attack individuals but also causes the breakdown in society. Diseases cause the greed and the want for money in some characters, which has a huge impact on society as a whole. Similarly, diseases cause the need for self-preservation in order to survive. On the other hand, diseases cause characters to lose faith.

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.

The creative piece for this project was also influenced by a “Choose your own adventure” short film The Outbreak. As mentioned previously in this text, The Outbreak is a short film that utilises the “Choose your own adventure” technique to immerse the audience in its story. Although the film is much broader than mine, it utilises the same technique in creating different scenes and allowing the film to be

Beth Emhoff returns home to Minneapolis from a business trip in Hong Kong. She begins to feel ill and ends up dead two days later. A few days later, her son dies. No one knows why she died, not even her doctors. Her husband does not understand how this could happen. In a few days, other people begin to show the same symptoms that Beth did. Meant larger cities begin to get infected. Thousands of people contract the disease and the disease continues to spread very rapidly. Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention work very hard to create a vaccine. But this virus is very unique and unlike anything that they have seen before. And to make it even more difficult, the virus keeps mutating. The director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sends a young doctor/researcher to the places where the disease seems to be starting. During this time, there is much confusion and panic about who would receive

In the beginning of the film “The Vaccine War”, the audience is shown the birth of a newborn girl and a list of vaccines that a child gets within the first few months of life. Then, the audience is presented facts about vaccines, which are explained by a wide range of experts. Frontline invited a variety of public health care officials, doctors, science-based bloggers, and researchers to promote the science aspect of vaccines. These experts clearly explained the benefits and risks of vaccines. They conveyed how the benefits of vaccinations outweigh the risks, and emphasized the threat of vaccine-preventable diseases returning if herd immunity drops. With many parents neglecting to have their children vaccinated, the herd immunity has a higher risk of dropping and leading to an outbreak of disease. The experts expressed the seriousness of the measles outbreak traced to Disneyland and the 2008 San Diego outbreak.

The study was conducted to measure the individual liberty when it comes to restrictions on disease spreading I terms of quarantine. Although there multiple hardships that the public health emergency officials have to go through such as the quarantine of the healthy individuals that might have been exposed in their private houses or isolating of the individuals who is already infecting or exposed and the need to be isolated. Although families feel threatening when they are being quarantine however if it is performed in the right way it does helps n term of precautions education

We see TV campaigns, free vaccines, health agents visiting houses etc, to prevent a worse situation.

The movie Contagion gives a perspective of a worldwide pandemic as it begins and spreads throughout the world while displaying signs of evolution. The movie begins with a woman, Beth, traveling home from a business trip in Hong Kong. Beth becomes sick with what she thinks is the flu. However, she suffers from a seizure and dies suddenly from an unknown cause. Her son along with several other cases around the world suddenly die after having similar symptoms Her husband Mitch discovers that he is completely immune to the disease. Over the next few days the virus gains the attention of the Center for Disease Control (CDC), World Health Organization (WHO), and the governments of the world. With little known about the virus, the CDC and the WHO struggle to find the origin of the virus or how it works. The disease MEV-1 soon becomes a pandemic as the disease transfers rapidly from human to human through fomites. Society collapsed, which led to complete chaos and instability for not only people but also governments around the world . After several months, a vaccine was created and mass produced and distributed to the general public. The CDC was eventually able to trace the pathogen to the origin and patient zero, Beth.

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.

In the movie contagion, there is virus outbreak happening all around the world and is growing at a fast pace. The whole world is scared for their lives because nothing this big has happened before in their lifetime. The world health organization is trying to find a cure but there are telling people to stay inside and keep hydrated but there are only a few people that don't follow instructions. If I were in their situation, I would obey the authorities instructions to stay inside, be hydrated and don't touch anything with your bare hands or anyone if you do outside. I would do this because I have never seen something like this in my lifetime. If I had a family I would want them to keep safe and not get sick and if they went out without covering

This picture highlights the effect, in America, of the small Ebola outbreak that occurred in 2014-2015. All ages were well aware of Ebola because it became nationally discussed. It had grown into a fear to obtain Ebola and die. We as Americans have developed an extremely oblivious conscious to what the deathly issues are.

In the movie Pandemic CDC officials were called on to the scene at the airport after the young man had died on the plane. CDC officials took all of the passengers on the plane to an isolated area to see if the man died from something that could possible be contagious. By placing the passengers in isolation, CDC investigators were able to see that people were showing symptoms of the disease, which lead them to believe that this was a contagious virus. CDC worker were able to identify who was on the plane by contacting the airport and having passengers exit the plane based on their seat number. Getting an exact number of people who were on the plane and an idea of where each passenger was sitting in regards to the deceased male, help identify

People in general are both fascinated and paranoid of the onset of new infectious diseases. While films such as "Outbreak" are smash hits at the box office, when an actual disease becomes apparent people often react with a kind of mass hysteria. Last year, a new illness reared its evil head. While the name "SARS" has become fairly well-known, the actual facts behind the illness are not as widely talked about.

It was sad to witness the remoteness of their compassion, but under the circumstance most understandably necessary. Thin surgical gowns and paper thin masks were the only barriers between infected persons and the incurable disease, which could be passed through contact with bodily fluids contained in a simple handshake. The virus was also shed in urine, saliva, blood, and other excretions.3 Coming into contact with these elements posed an elevated risk for the caregivers of the infected person, and by October the hospital had reported close to 160 cases.