OUTBREAK and the IMMUNE SYSTEM essay The movie OUTBREAK starring Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo, and Cuba Gooding jr. incorporates many of the biological concepts discussed in class this year. OUTBREAK involves concepts we have learned such as: Viruses and Bacteria, Human Genetics, Evolution and Mutation, and overall the Immune System of the human body. OUTBREAK was the idea that a virus from Africa called “Mutoba” whose host was a monkey traveled to America and infection …showed first 75 words of 659 total…

…showed last 75 words of 659 total…killed. The antibodies work on both types of the virus even though one is airborne and one is given by contact. In the movie Rena Russo got the virus a lot earlier then the antiserum was created. This doesn’t make any sense, if she got it around a day to two days before the antiserum was created then she would not be able to survive because too many of her cells would be dead.