I Am Legend: The Krippin Virus

When one hears the title I Am Legend being mentioned, they usually associate it with Will Smith and the terrific job he did in portraying the protagonist of the story Robert Neville. However, what they typically leave out is the equally terrific job done by author Richard Matheson coming up with the storyline and writing the original book version. While Richard Matheson’s post-apocalyptic science fiction book, I Am Legend, and Francis Lawrence’s post-apocalyptic science fiction movie, I Am Legend, both have similarities and differences, in the end, the original book version prevails mainly because the movie version alters the original storyline too much.

Hand, foot, and mouth are parts of human body have the highest change to get contagious infection. There are many viruses but Enterovirus groups, (most common is the coxsackie virus) is the main factor. These viruses can spread through direct contact from person to person especially with those have bad habits such as: unusually washed hands or surfaces contaminated with feces. An infected person’s saliva, stool, or respiratory secretions can transmit the infection.

Eventually, both of these issues impact society. Without informed consent doctors should not be doing procedures or research of any kind with a patient’s tissues or blood. This was an issue in the book because doctors kept doing the procedures and getting away with it. This affected society because that gave scientists more power to do whatever they

Overall I thought this was an interesting film and I noticed that Medicalization took part when the doctors justify the unnecessary health care can cause more medical problems towards patients, such as the use of x-ray technology, which produces a great amount of radiation and can cause cancer. For instance, “The estimate is that tens of thousands of cancer deaths are being caused each year by medical radiation”, being that the issue of extreme exposure to radiation is not seen as a “traditional” medical illness, it is still framed as one since it causes people to get cancer. Another topic that ties in very well with Money and Medicine is The U.S. Health Care System, for example, “We make more money when we do an unplanned C-Section. We get basically screwed by the payment system, but patients come first,” the government has more authority over doctors which eventually impels them to provide poor treatment because of insufficient funds, this come to show how the issues with health interfere with the medical society and the affects it has towards the sub group of

It deals with a topic that is very important for many in the medical field and for anthropologist, but I also feel it would be an important for anyone else as it shows something few people see or experience. Although there are a few hiccups that may affect certain readers, I feel like those can be overlooked as they are not major issues. In the end I feel that aside from doing what it was intended; it did something more as I feel that it showed us that our medical system despite being one of the most advanced in the world is distant from the people which makes it much less effective for certain people like it was with the Lia and her

In the science fiction thriller, I Am Legend, Richard Matheson uses the idea of survival to demonstrate the changes that can happen inside a person when put in a life or death situation. Robert Neville is the main character in Matheson’s novel. Matheson uses Neville to walk readers through the life of a person who has gone through a nation-wide crisis. After surviving for a few years by barricading his house and fighting off vampires, Neville gets curious and turns to science for answers, “Then he got a specimen of blood from a woman” (86). In order to stay sane, Neville turns to science. His survival skills he already possesses aren’t enough for him-- he needs to understand the virus so he could better defend himself. After being alone for so long, Neville learns how to survive alone; he learns how to

I recently read an article written in The NEWYORKER called The Deadliest Virus by Michael Specter. The article talked about the Avian Flu virus, also known as “bird flu”. In the article, Specter interviewed many people, but the most important person, in my opinion, is a virologist who conducted research on the Avian Flu, Ron Fouchier. This article raised many ethical questions. The questions are as followed: Should research be conducted on this virus? Does Fouchier’s research pose a threat? Does the risk of the work outweigh the benefits of the research?

The movie I am Legend begins with Doctor Allice Krippin discussing how she has taken the measles virus and altered its structure to make it beneficial to the body rather than it being harmful to the human body. Doctor Krippin claims that the genetically engineered virus can possibly cure cancer. Initially it does appear that the genetically engineered measles virus was in fact going to cure cancer. During the human clinical trials part of the research, researchers took ten thousand and nine cancer patients and infected them all with the new strain of the measles virus. At the end of the human testing phase all ten thousand and nine subjects were cancer free.

We also see the suffering through the characters drug usage. Drugs become their escape from harsh cruelties of reality. Overall, this film is historically

"I am Legend" is an interesting movie that shows the hardships that Virologist Robert Neville goes through to cure a man-made virus that has wiped out 94% of humans with it and turned 5% of humans into Darkseekers leaving him as the 1% immune. The movie captures the emotional pain the Robert feels throughout the film and this helps the viewer relate which in turn increases the enjoyment for the viewer. Roberts main goal being the 1% immune is staying in New York and researching a cure by capturing Darkseekers. Throughout the film there are flashbacks that help pull together the events happening and why everything is the way they are. To help explain the background of the Robert Neville and everything he goes through there has to be an analysis on the characters and why they are important.

The film I am Legend, follows a US Army virologist Robert Neville’s quest of survival in a post-apocalyptic world. In the film, the entirety of mankind is nearly wiped out from a virus, but Neville is the only human alive with human qualities. The only other people that are living in that society are hostile mutants, who have no traits reflective of mankind, these are people ready to do anything for survival. The city that they had once lived has fallen to ruins, and Neville must take cautious measures to ensure he is not captured by these mutated humans. The books general concept of a man and son struggling to survival in a ruined city reminded me of the movie, I am Legend.

The film, I Am Legend is a post-apocalyptic science fiction film directed by Francis Lawrence and starring Will Smith. It was released on December 14th, 2007. This film is actually the third adaptation of Richard Matheson’s novel of the same name from 1954. Smith plays virologist Robert Neville, who lives in New York City in 2012, which is inhabited by animalistic victims of the virus. He is immune to a vicious man-made virus originally created to cure cancer and works to

An invisible organism enters your body. It penetrates into your tissues and then takes over the machinery in your own cells to make more copies of itself. This tiny infiltrator works silently, producing thousands of these clones that fill up the cell and cause it to explode. The clones mercilessly continue the process of invading, taking over and destroying cells. The result might be a minor inconvenience to you as the host, or it could result in a slow or rapid death. It depends only on which variant of this unwanted infiltrator overcomes your body’s defenses. There are cures to wipe out some types of these invisible intruders, but others are so difficult to eradicate or so readily adaptable, that the world’s greatest scientists

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 film adaptation of Richard Matheson’s 1954 novel, I am Legend, was released in December of 2007. Starring Will Smith, and directed by Francis Lawrence, the movie utilizes a viral outbreak, instead of a bacterium (like the book), to spread the disease (Lawrence).