BIO 9 CONTAGION Video Questions Name:
Answer the following questions as you watch the video.
1. In the first scene (Day 2), where is the woman waiting?
2. Which organization is located in Atlanta, Georgia?
3. List some of the symptoms victims’ experience.
4. Which organization is located in Geneva, Switzerland?
5. Initially, the disease was thought to be transmitted through respiratory routes and __________.
6. For every person who gets sick, how many other people do they infect (R-0) with the following diseases: Flu_____ Smallpox _______ Polio ________
7. When studying infectious agents, such as the virus in the film, the CDC classifies these agents by “Biosafety Levels.” The virus in the film was classified at a Biosafety Level of: 1 2 3 4
8. List the precautions you see CDC scientists studying the virus in the film take in the laboratories. List as many as possible.
9. When they sequenced the genome of the virus, some of the origins came from what two animal sources?
10. The virus attaches to human respiratory/nervous cells like a “__________ slipping into a lock.”
11. What is the mortality rate of this virus at this point? ________%
12. With the meeting with the WHO, why did CDC say they cannot grow the virus in cells?
13. What is the name given to the virus?
14. Where was patient zero when she spread the virus to the Ukrainian woman and Hong Kong man?
15. In 1918 _______% of the population died from the Spanish Flu.
16. What happened to the pharmacy were supplies of Forsythia run out?
17. Which person was first to test the experimental vaccine?
18. How did the government decide which US citizens would get the vaccine first?
19. How is the vaccine administered (given)?
20. Explain how patient zero originally got the disease.