Notes

The film concludes by showing how the virus originated. Emhoff's firm, a mining corporation based in Minneapolis, is actively clearing jungle and a bulldozer knocks over a palm tree in which bats were nesting. They fly out and one bat, the vector, lands on a banana plant, eating a chunk of banana. Not having its tree to return to, the bat flies to a nearby hog building, where it drops the banana into a pig sty, where a pig eats it. The pig is then sold and slaughtered and is shown being prepared by a chef in the Macau casino Beth Emhoff was in. The chef smears the pig's blood on his apron but does not wash his hands before shaking Beth's hand, thereby infecting her with the disease.
In the film's fictional story, a bat eat a piece of fruit that is then also eaten by a pig, so the bat infects the pig with MEV-1 and then the pig incubates the virus and possibly causes a mutation that is then passed along to humans. This is an oversimplification of the process, but generally speaks to the larger factual points about source and transmission of these types of viruses.
Henipaviruses were eventually found in fruit bats in Northern Africa.

Touching someone who has it or touching something they have touched, or breathing in the same air.

a bat gave it to a pig which ended up in a restaurant in Hong Kong. a chef touched the raw pig's mouth, didn't wash his hands, & shook Beth's hand & she got the virus

1 in 12 and 25-30% die


1. Who is patient zero?
2. How does to contagion spread from Hong Kong, China to Guangdong Province, China 90 miles away?
3. Why did her husband not get infected?
4. What was the role of the CDC in the film?
5. What part does private industry play in fighting this epidemic?
6. What is the worldwide organization that deals with the outbreak?
7. Why has the world health organization (WHO) and Dr. Leonora Orantes become involved?
8. What role does social media play in the outbreak?
9. What were the origins of this virus? (Species origins)
10. What are the modes of transmission? Define fomite (Hint:Dr Erin Maers' meeting).
11. What does Dr. Ally Hextall tell Dr. Ellis Cheever that "...somewhere in the world the wrong pig met up with the wrong bat" as the are discussing the protein structure of the contagion?
12. Why does Dr. Ally Hextall tell Dr. Ian Sussman to "cook his samples"?
13. Why does Dr. Leonora Orantes go to Hong Kong?
14. Would this virus be categorized as an emerging virus? Why?
15. How realistic do you think this film was? Explain in a well developed paragraph on back.
16. Why does it take months and months before a vaccine can be released to the public?
17. Why does Dr. Ally Hextall inject herself with vaccine #57?
18. Dr. Leonora Orantes research indicates how each person came into contact with Beth Emhoff on day 1. Using this information, explain how the contagion traveled around the world ( Using the 'where' section of question 2).



1. Patient zero is Gwenneth Paltrow
2. the waiter who picked up her drink glass contracted the disease ( initially spread through contact and later went airborne), he lives in Guangdong Province commuting to Hong Kong for work
3.Many people were immune, her husband (Matt Damon) was one of them
4.The CDC had to find a vaccine that would stop the virus from spreading
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6. The World Health Organization (WHO)
7. The CDC asked for assistance
8. Social media notified the public to stay inside and to call a number if you had the symptoms of the virus
9. The virus developed when an infected bat dropped a piece of fruit into a pig pen. the pig ate it causing the virus to mutate. The pig was later bought and killed for food. When the Chef at the hotel was preparing the pig, he was called out to meet Gwenneth Paltrow. He didn't wash his hands before he met her, he simply just wiped them on his blood stained apron.
10. modes were contact and airborne. a fomite can live on objects (such as a coffee cup, door handle, light switch etc.) for long periods of time infecting anyone that comes into contact with it.
11.their protein structures allowed the virus to mutate.
12. to cook his samples means to destroy them. The CDC will destroy virus samples to prevent further outbreaks and to ensure that they do not fall into the hands of enemies or terrorists. If the CDC becomes under attack or the world were to suddenly end, the computer system will automatically destroy all the samples with intense heat and flames.
13 that's where patient zero got infected, she went there as a starting point to track down where it came from
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15. it was realistic
16. it takes a long time to develop a vaccine, first they have to figure out what the virus is, they have to figure out where it began. they have to research and develop a vaccine, then they have to test it on infected monkeys to make sure its safe to give out to the public
17. She followed in her fathers footsteps by injecting herself with the vaccine to test it as her father did many years ago
18.the main people infected by Gwenneth Paltrow were
the waiter who collected her glass, he lived in Guangdong Province, China.
there was a Russian Model who was siting at the bar next to Gwenneth, she became infected when Gwenneth forgot her cell phone and she picked it up to give to her. She later went back to Russia and infected people there

Gwenneth then went to Chicago as a layover before going home. However in Chicago she left the airport to meet up and have sex with her old boyfriend, thus infecting him.
Her assistant was also infected after picking her up at the airport.
from there the virus spread like crazy infecting millions of people

When she got home she infected her son, who in turn infected the kids at his school. Matt Damons daughter wasnt home at the time, she was with her mother and didnt get exposed to it.