contagious disease in society theme
The social issue of there being pathogens that spread quickly from person to person and cause severe health conditions, is discussed.
Examples
In apuleius180tgab9 "The Golden Ass: Book 9", the danger of rabies was illustrated when people fearfully kept their distance from an apparently infected canine.
28 total · 3 choice · 13 major · 12 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| ahh1x22 | choice | The point of the story was to imagine how local authorities might react if a contagious disease (anthrax, in this instance) was discovered in its earliest stages. |
| tz1985e3x26 | choice | We saw a hospital handling the aftermath of a strange disease that was spreading around that made people go blind. |
| voy3x12 | choice | There was a "macroviral" outbreak on Voyager. |
| bbf2x18 | major | In response to the deadly plague, Sheridan issued orders placing Babylon 5 under quarantine and segregating the Markab for their own protection. The Markab governing authorities had forbade Lazarenn from revealing the existence of the deadly plague, out of concern that doing so would lead them being voted out of office. |
| movie: Adrenalin: Fear the Rush (1996) | major | The city of Boston was put under quarantine in an effort to prevent a deadly virus from proliferating across the United States. |
| movie: Invasion from Inner Earth (1974) | major | A group of pilots found themselves stranded in the Canadian wilderness as a deadly plague was spreading around the world. |
| movie: Nosferatu A Symphony of Horror (1922) | major | The people of Wisborg thought the vampire victims had died of the plague, and the viewer saw how society handled the situation with crosses drawn on doors and angry mobs. |
| movie: The Andromeda Strain (1971) | major | The team of elite scientists initially urged the President to launch a nuclear strike on Piedmont in order to prevent the spreading of the deadly infectious organism from outer space. However, they changed their tune upon deducing that the organism fed on nuclear energy. |
| movie: The Crazies (1973) | major | Evans City was quarantined and a nuclear bomb readied to prevent the virus from spreading. |
| movie: The Seventh Seal (1957) | major | The viewer is shown a medieval Swedish society ravaged by the plague. |