CONTAGION
" Contagionfollows the rapid progress of a lethal indirect contact transmission virus (fomite transmission) that kills within days.[3] As the fast-moving pandemic grows, the worldwide medical community races to find a cure and control the panic that spreads faster than does the virus itself. As the virus spreads around the world, ordinary people struggle to survive in a society coming apart."
The film concludes by showing how the virus originated. Emhoff's mining corporation is clearing the jungle, and a bulldozer knocks over a palm tree in which infected 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 and acquires the bat virus. The pig is then sold and slaughtered and is shown being prepared by a chef in the Macau casino Beth Emhoff visited. The chef smears the pig's blood on his apron but does not wash his hands before shaking Beth's, thereby infecting her with the mutating pig and bat viruses and creating a new human variant, the MEV-1 strain.
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