Outbreak, Contagion, And World War Z Movie

Throughout watching all 3 movies I have learned alot about the spread of disease and what is real and fictional about them. In order of most to least real, Outbreak, Contagion, and World War Z were the three movies that helped me to learn about disease.

Outbreak was by far the most realistic scenario for the spread of disease (motaba) since it had a host animal and showed the process that is used to learn more about the disease. The host happened to be a monkey from the first scene of the movie that was infected by the local tribe and was eventually caught and sent to america to be sold as a pet but instead was let loose and spread the disease to the shopkeeper animals and trader. The disease was fast acting and gave patients bumps that bled and killed them within 24 hours. The original strain was only spread by bodily fluids but when it went to the us, it changed to an airborne disease and spread like the flu. …show more content…
The disease was somewhat fast acting and would kill in about 4 days after having flu like symptoms. When the patient died, they would foam out the mouth and start shaking, I have never heard of a disease like this but is seemed realistic to me. At the end of the movie, the host animal was revealed and the spread started when a bat gave the virus to a pig then the pig was cooked at the restaurant that Beth Emhoff was eating at and, from there it spread like wildfire affecting everyone that touched a infected person or something that they had