Contagion

Contagion is about a worldwide epidemic involving a virus. Classical. It begins somewhere, and then it spreads to everywhere. Simple as that. However, prior to realizing that the entire population is plagued with the virus, scientists from all over the world make haste to try to find a cure in trying to cure the virus by trying to contain it and then eliminate it. There are a few people who are immune to the virus, in which one of them is the initial carrier. How is biotechnology/genetics involved in this? Well, simply, they take a piece of the virus, where its conditions consume whatever sample that it is contained in and try to a tap into the make up of the virus and alter it so that it becomes less harmful. So how do you stop something that can't really be stopped if humankind does not even know what they are being hit with? Well honestly, something like this could happen in the future to humans. Its a scary thought, but with the advancing fields in biotechnology and genetics, we have come very far in finding cures to diseases that come up whether intentional or not. Sometimes they occur just in nature's original setting, or it picks up from who knows where. Whatever the cause, I feel like this really preps the beginning of really being prepared for what may lie in the future. This could be tied to things like cancer that is dominantly within the boundaries of our civilization. So, this re-occuring theme may not be that bad unless it is used to promote certain projects like recreating life or creating super soldiers or something.