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Contagion is not just a Hollywood film


Posted 13 Nov 2011 by jaijai

Contagion, the latest killer plague Hollywood movie is vey near to realism than a few may believe according as per the experts from the Massey University in the contagious diseases spread.

With release of the movie Contagion, many scientists have won wide appreciation for his movie, which was realized across the world, including NewZealand. Nigel French, the professor of Food safety and Veterinary public health says it is a situation, the world has already witnessed with international pandemics like the Spanish flu epidemic in the year 1918. The world can possibly see these events again.

Professor French said that it is an event has happened and it would probably occur again, but he assured that scientifically we are well prepared to combat the situations.

The Spanish flu is considered to be a precursor of H1N1swine flu, which took the universe in the year b2009. The Spanish flu with a rate of low mortality wreck havoc in the abrupt repercussion of the First World War killing nearly fifty to hundred million people.

The migratory birds were considered as the agents of spreading the Spanish flu. The bird flew to the field hospitals in Northern parts of France .which echoes and forms the basis of the medical thriller film, in which a lethal virus is transported from animal to human.

Professor French said that almost seventy five percent of the rising human infectious diseases were derived from animals. The professor’s other interests on research encompass molecular epidemiology and other infectious disease control.His associate, Professor Roberts works in the Albany campus as mathematical biologist. With these mathematical models he made out of career. The mathematical models were utilized to forecast the spread of infectious disease.

The computer models of Roberts predict that the bird flu will be the next plague to bread out thereby affirming that these large scale infections’ cycle nature is not just a Hollywood stuff.

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