, 2001). These two simple measures can drastically increase the subsequent spread of infectious disease throughout the country.
In Outbreak, the military institutes martial law to quarantine the infected populace in the town of Cedar Creek. Eventually, the military begins plans to bomb Cedar Creek in an attempt to eradicate the virus, which had thus far proven untenable. While the concept of the United States government destroying a small town and murdering its populace is likely superlative Hollywood movie-making, the institution of martial law is a realistic and effective approach toward preventing further spread (Yassi et al., 2001).
In addition to the non-medical measures which can be taken to deal with the spread of an infectious agent, there are several medical actions which could be utilized to treat infected invididuals, including antivirals, antibiotics, or vaccines (Yassi et al., 2001). For example, antivirals and vaccines are both being utilized in an effort to stymie the current Swine influenza outbreak around the world and within the United States (antibiotics have no effort on viruses and thus would only be used to bacterial outbreaks). However, the efficacy of these methods would be uncertain with a novel virus. Depending on the nature of the virus and its pathogenesis, the development of viruses may be difficult or unfeasible. Polio is an example of a disease which was effectively eradicated by the development of vaccines, whereas HIV continues to evade the efforts of researchers to develop vaccines (although some recent progress has been made) (Preston, 2009; Snowden, 2008; Yassi et al., 2001).
Within the movie Outbreak, researchers eventually cure infected individuals with the development of an antiserum by taking antibodies from an immune monkey (Petersen, 1995). This process, however, is scientifically inaccurate and implausible. Aside from the potentially deadly immunoreactivity from introducing monkey antibodies into humans, the development...
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