Disease is defined as “a disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific symptoms or that affects a specific location and is not simply a direct result of physical injury” (Wikipedia 2011). But when Hollywood tries to recreate the life of these diseases into blockbuster films does it accurately portray them? Outbreak is a 1995 American medical disaster film it focuses on an outbreak of a fictional Ebola-like virus called Motaba in Zaire and later in a small town in the United States. Its primary settings are government disease control centres USAMRIID and the CDC, and the fictional town of Cedar Creek, California. Outbreak's plot speculates how far military and civilian agencies might go…show more content… Many organisms live in and on our bodies. They're normally harmless or even helpful, but under certain conditions, some organisms may cause disease. Some infectious diseases can be passed from person to person” (Mayoclinic 2009). Viruses are microscopic infectious agents that can only be seen with an electron microscope. There categorised as non-living because they don’t self – reproduce, grow, feed or produce waste. They don’t move around unless they latch onto organisms, wind or water. Viruses are not cells. There made of DNA and coated in protein. Viruses attach themselves to a suitable host sell then program the original cell to reproduce more viral particles, when this becomes too much for the cell to handle it bursts open releasing all the viral particles into the organism. Some viruses invade the cell but then choose to remain inactive for periods of time, for example the herpes simplex virus you may carry the genes for the virus but you don’t get them constantly they come and go. As well some viruses aren’t programmed to kill but to become cancerous. There not stopped by antibiotic but rely on the body’s immune system to kill off the
