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    Contagion

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    The movie opens with patient zero already infected but you don't know right away she is. The movie ends with how the whole pandemic originated. I am not a microbiologist but I do have a biology background in neuroscience. As I am not a microbiologist (not with just a microbiology course under my belt) so some of the suppositions presented in the movie by the writers and directors while seeming plausible quickly lose cohesion as the story unfolds. At one point we are given a CGI diagram of the "virus" as it infects a host cell. I have to say I do know that nearly all virii are infinitely smaller then the cells they invade. However this one seemed to be 3 times the size of the cell it invades hence almost instantaneously killing the host cell. So if it's 3 times the size of the host cell you would be able to see it quite plainly. It might have been better to label the contagion a parasitic macrophage rather then a virus. So once again the writers/directors took an idea and blew it out of proportion in order to create a cash cow for general public paranoia. However I believe with the proliferation of the info on the internet the general public are a lot more informed and sophisticated data wise then we were. Still there is enough substance there to make most of us go hmm... could it be possible? You would have to ask a real microbiologist, they are much more informed then I am on this topic. But given the W. HO. And CDC evasive approach, I wouldn't hold your breathe, or maybe given the gist of the movie it might be in your best interest.

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    dwm21057@  11.9.2011 age: 50+ 30 reviews

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