Twenty-seven years ago in the United States, although there was no large-scale viral epidemic, an action movie with a virus as the protagonist was filmed.
Time flies, although this movie is 25 years ago, but at this moment compared to the spread of the new coronavirus in our country, we can still get a lot of inspiration through the movie, after all, history always repeats what we already know story.
The American Hollywood film " Extreme Panic " was filmed in 1995, showing a shocking viral story.
At the beginning of the film, a line of striking text has already said who the protagonist of this film and the number one enemy of mankind is. The
story began in 1967 when a strange disease suddenly began to spread in the barracks of the mercenaries in the Motaba Valley, Zaire, Africa, and people kept dying.
After the U.S. military doctor took an infected blood sample and determined that it was a highly infectious virus, the U.S. military directly dropped a bomb on the military camp that evening, destroying the entire military camp.
In 1995, the disease appeared like a ghost on the African continent. At the same time, monkeys carrying the virus entered the United States through wildlife smugglers. The mutated virus caused a deadly infectious disease and spread in the continental United States in the form of airborne transmission. Come on. The virtual virus in the
movie has such a characteristic, it severely damages the cells of the human body.
Within an hour, the cells surrounding the infected cells completely disappear from the microscope's field of view, not only the structure of the cell, but the entire cell.
patients infected with the disease will have symptoms of fever and cough in the early stage, accompanied by continuous tears, and two days later, they will die of high fever and ulceration. The virus in the
video is said to have swept across the continental United States within 48 hours if no quarantine measures were taken.
In reality, this kind of contagion is a bit exaggerated, but we can still learn from it that the contagiousness of the virus should not be underestimated.
In order to isolate the virus, the US government used the military to completely isolate the seaside town of California, which was infected with the virus, and there are more than 2,000 residents in this town.
Since these more than 2,000 residents are all infected or may be infected, although the villain in the movie hopes to repeat the old trick and use the military incendiary to destroy the entire town.
Of course, this strategy is neither in line with the public opinion nor in line with the real social situation, so our heroic protagonist is like other Hollywood blockbusters, looking for serum to rescue everyone. The ending of the
story, of course, is perfect. Our divorced middle-aged male protagonist. Through this incident, the protagonist found the source of the virus, isolated the serum, rescued more than 2,000 town residents, and regained the love of his ex-wife. At the same time, the villain was killed. Impeach.
Through this movie, I also discovered several truths that everyone should understand when facing viruses:
virus: highly contagious and mutated, We know that there are many ways of virus infection. Take hepatitis B virus as an example, it can be transmitted through mother-to-child transmission, body fluid transmission, and so on.
And the virus in the movie is transmitted directly through the air, the epidemic of the plague lies in the wide spread of the virus.
In addition, the variability of the virus is also a headache for scientists. Some scientists once said half-jokingly: "Viruses can complete an evolutionary process equivalent to tens of thousands of years for humans in a few days. This is by no means alarmist. The high variability of viruses makes the development of anti-virus drugs extremely stressful. Large, sometimes a drug has just entered the stage of animal testing and has not yet been put on the market, and new virus variants have begun to become popular.
The history of virus plagues repeats, There have been many outbreaks of large-scale plagues in human history. For example, Black Death , which reduced the population of Europe by a quarter in the Middle Ages.
The closest one to us was the Spanish flu of 1918. In this disaster, 25 million peopleDied unintentionally.
More recently, the mad cow disease scare in 1998, the SARS in 2003, and the spread of the Wuhan novel coronavirus that we are experiencing, are all related to the virus.
Qiao Shiva Rydberg once said: "The single biggest threat to human domination of the earth comes from viruses." The history of mankind is accompanied by the history of plagues.
Since the beginning of the last century, some people have hunted and killed wild animals on a large scale for economic benefits, while some gluttons have tried all kinds of game at great cost to eat.
did not know that during this process, various viruses began to spread quietly among the human population. People smelled the plague, but completely forgot that they were the culprits of this panic.
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