Infectious Diseases Name _____________________
Movie: Contagion Date ______________
1. The first scene of the movie starts out on DAY 2. Why do you think this is? Predict what you think
happened on DAY 1.
2. In the first scene, where is patient zero waiting? ______________________________
3. Why is this location important?
4. Which organization is located in Atlanta, Georgia? ______________________________
5. List 4-5 symptoms victims experience.
6. What was the differential diagnosis of patient zero?
7. Which organization is located in Geneva, Switzerland? ___________________________
8. When the doctors at the CDC were talking about the outbreak in Minnesota, what did he say was the
single most important objective when trying to contain an outbreak?
9. Initially, the disease was thought to be transmitted through respiratory routes and
____________________.
10. The average person touches their face _______________________ times a day.
11. For every person who gets sick, how many other people do they infect with the following diseases:
a. Flu_____
b. Smallpox _______
c. Polio ____________
12. The rate at which a virus multiplies depend on several factors including:
a. The ___________________ period
b. How long a person is _____________________
c. The size of the population of susceptible people
13. Why is the US Department of Homeland Security talking to the CDC about this outbreak?
14. When they sequenced the genome of the virus, some of the origins came from what animal sources?
15. The virus attaches to human respiratory/nervous cells like a “__________ slipping into a lock.”
