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Ebola… How far away are we?

Author(s) -

Salim Máttar,

Marco González T

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

revista mvz córdoba

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.202

H-Index - 11

eISSN - 1909-0544

pISSN - 0122-0268

DOI - 10.21897/rmvz.82

Subject(s) - hollywood , ebola virus , outbreak , atlanta , pandemic , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , disease , history , media studies , covid-19 , ethnology , medicine , sociology , art history , archaeology , pathology , metropolitan area

Hollywood adores an infectious disease film. One of the most shocking was the 1995 film “Outbreak”, in which Dustin Hoffman and Rene Russo worked to stop a fictional virus similar to Ebola. In the movie the virus is introduced from Africa to the US by a monkey. In another film, “28 Days Later,” a virus from experimental monkeys infects humans in London. Several additional films about the human fear of “killer viruses” have been released. A real-life scare to the US and the western world came when two American Ebola patients were recently transported from West Africa to an Atlanta hospital for treatment. Currently, there is a pervasive public fear of the dissemination of Ebola in the US and the rest of the world.

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