Quarantine
I chose a 2008 movie “Quarantine” for this extra credit assignment. In this movie, a television reporter and her cameraman are shadowing two fire fighters during their night shift and while they are touring the facility, an emergency call leads them to an apartment from where the 911 call was made by the apartment manager. Upon arriving of the 2 firemen, 2 police officers and the television crew the apartment manager explains that a woman has been screaming upstairs in one of the apartment block. When the police officers, firemen and television crew enters the block room they see an elderly woman. She is covered in blood, struggling to breathe and there is foaming at the mouth. She suddenly attacks one of the police officers and …show more content…
The movie shows that it only takes few minutes after an individual is infected to show symptoms of a viral disease which is fake because after studying about attachment/entry, genome replication, packaging/assembly and exiting of viruses in class we know that a virus can’t infect individuals in few minutes. For example, according to healthline.com chicken pox has an itchy rash symptoms that is most common but the infection will have to be in your body for about 7-21 days before the rash and other symptoms develop. Which shows that symptoms do not appear in few minutes after infection as shown in the …show more content…
The movie shows that after being infected by this mysterious virus that is caused by when an infected person or animal bites, the infected individuals turns into bloodthirsty killers and bites humans like vampires. This infected individual turning into bloodthirsty killers is a false property of a virus. According to World Health Organization rabies is an infectious disease that is almost fatal following the onset of clinical symptoms. Rabies is spreads in humans through bites or scratches by domestic dogs. Symptoms of rabies include fever with pain, unusual or unexplained tingling, pricking, or burning sensation and inflammation of brain and spinal cord. Therefore, rabies is a very fatal disease caused by bites from dogs but it does not turn an infected individual to bloodthirsty killer like
I chose a 2008 movie “Quarantine” for this extra credit assignment. In this movie, a television reporter and her cameraman are shadowing two fire fighters during their night shift and while they are touring the facility, an emergency call leads them to an apartment from where the 911 call was made by the apartment manager. Upon arriving of the 2 firemen, 2 police officers and the television crew the apartment manager explains that a woman has been screaming upstairs in one of the apartment block. When the police officers, firemen and television crew enters the block room they see an elderly woman. She is covered in blood, struggling to breathe and there is foaming at the mouth. She suddenly attacks one of the police officers and …show more content…
The movie shows that it only takes few minutes after an individual is infected to show symptoms of a viral disease which is fake because after studying about attachment/entry, genome replication, packaging/assembly and exiting of viruses in class we know that a virus can’t infect individuals in few minutes. For example, according to healthline.com chicken pox has an itchy rash symptoms that is most common but the infection will have to be in your body for about 7-21 days before the rash and other symptoms develop. Which shows that symptoms do not appear in few minutes after infection as shown in the …show more content…
The movie shows that after being infected by this mysterious virus that is caused by when an infected person or animal bites, the infected individuals turns into bloodthirsty killers and bites humans like vampires. This infected individual turning into bloodthirsty killers is a false property of a virus. According to World Health Organization rabies is an infectious disease that is almost fatal following the onset of clinical symptoms. Rabies is spreads in humans through bites or scratches by domestic dogs. Symptoms of rabies include fever with pain, unusual or unexplained tingling, pricking, or burning sensation and inflammation of brain and spinal cord. Therefore, rabies is a very fatal disease caused by bites from dogs but it does not turn an infected individual to bloodthirsty killer like