“Outbreak (1995)”

Watch the movie “Outbreak (1995)”
Explain and/or answer the following points:
(1) the Centers for Disease Control and its role in preventing the spread of communicable disease (the CDC is
generally responsive to requests by students for information);
(2) the path of the “Motaba” virus from reservoir host to epidemic as shown in the movie;
(3) how the destruction of the rain forest could help to create new strains of disease;
(4) whether the government has legal authority to eradicate an entire town for the purpose of preventing the
spread of a deadly contagious disease to the entire nation;
(5) the history of quarantine as a device for preventing the spread of disease;
(6) the role of mutation in the spread of viruses;
(7) the different means of diagnosing viral diseases such as Ebola;
(8) why it is difficult for a vaccine to be created to stop a virus; and
(9) why viruses are thought to be one of the greatest threats to human dominance of the planet.