When a pandemic event strikes…
Good day class the movie I chose for my speech is the inspired by the 2011 pandemic thriller Contagion.
The plot of the movie appears to follow the big H1N1 and SARS scare of 2009 that left many citizens uncertain about the actual risk of the virus.
The movie is about the spread of a virus Known as the Meningoencephalitis Virus One (MEV-1). transmitted by fomites. Fomites, is any object or substance capable of carrying infectious organisms, such as germs or parasites, and hence transferring them from one individual to another. Skin cells, hair, clothing, and bedding are common hospital sources of contamination, the attempts by medical researchers and public health officials to identify and contain the disease, the loss of social order in a pandemic, and finally the introduction of a vaccine to halt its …show more content…
When Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns to Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, she attributes the malaise she feels to jet lag. However, two days later, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked husband Mitch Emhoff (Matt Damon) that they have no idea what killed her. Soon, many others start to exhibit the same symptoms, and a global pandemic explodes. Doctors try to contain the lethal microbe, but society begins to collapse as a blogger named Alan Krumwiede (Jude Law) fans the flames of paranoia. Although this is only a movie I raises the question how far off we are as a people to heed the signs of a pandemic event. What would happen and what would we do about it. Nothing in the movie hints that it is a work of fiction. Quite to the contrary, everything in Contagion is made to be as realistic as possible, using actual locations and governmental agencies, to make the story
Good day class the movie I chose for my speech is the inspired by the 2011 pandemic thriller Contagion.
The plot of the movie appears to follow the big H1N1 and SARS scare of 2009 that left many citizens uncertain about the actual risk of the virus.
The movie is about the spread of a virus Known as the Meningoencephalitis Virus One (MEV-1). transmitted by fomites. Fomites, is any object or substance capable of carrying infectious organisms, such as germs or parasites, and hence transferring them from one individual to another. Skin cells, hair, clothing, and bedding are common hospital sources of contamination, the attempts by medical researchers and public health officials to identify and contain the disease, the loss of social order in a pandemic, and finally the introduction of a vaccine to halt its …show more content…
When Beth Emhoff (Gwyneth Paltrow) returns to Minnesota from a Hong Kong business trip, she attributes the malaise she feels to jet lag. However, two days later, Beth is dead, and doctors tell her shocked husband Mitch Emhoff (Matt Damon) that they have no idea what killed her. Soon, many others start to exhibit the same symptoms, and a global pandemic explodes. Doctors try to contain the lethal microbe, but society begins to collapse as a blogger named Alan Krumwiede (Jude Law) fans the flames of paranoia. Although this is only a movie I raises the question how far off we are as a people to heed the signs of a pandemic event. What would happen and what would we do about it. Nothing in the movie hints that it is a work of fiction. Quite to the contrary, everything in Contagion is made to be as realistic as possible, using actual locations and governmental agencies, to make the story