World War Z Disease

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From the kitchen making pancakes to downtown fighting a zombie apocalypse. The movie World War Z is all about a disease outbreak that is spread by zombies. The main character, Gerry Lane is a former UN agent. His job involved traveling globally to solve the problems around the world. The movie illustrates that he quit so he could spend time with his two girls and wife. Driving downtown with his family everything begins to breakout and they try to escape away from all the chaos. They finally find an apartment with an open light and go stay with them over night then he gets in contact with UN and they pick them up by a helicopter to get to a safe place. After his family is in a safe place, he begins to travel around the world to find patient zero. …show more content…
These zombies bite people and they person become infected by the body fluid. They first hear about it in Korea but Korea manages to shut it down and does not let anybody in on it. Its spreading allover the world and they still have no idea what it is or how to stop it. Gerry then learns that Israel has protection and the zombies could not reach them. When Gerry gets there the zombies hear loud sounds and start climbing over the wall. Most people are infected and only Gerry and a soldier get away. They end up on a plane, which crashes and they land in a place where they find a lab. In this lab Gerry found in one of the test tubes a bacteria that could make humans invisible from the zombies. It worked and they started giving it to everybody around the world to help everybody from being

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