28 days later virus spread

Top credits Director Danny Boyle. See more at IMDbPro. Trailer Home Video Trailer. Video Photos Top cast Edit. Cillian Murphy Jim as Jim.

Naomie Harris Selena as Selena. Alex Palmer Activist as Activist. Bindu De Stoppani Activist as Activist. Jukka Hiltunen Activist as Activist. David Schneider Scientist as Scientist. Noah Huntley Mark as Mark. Alexander Delamere Mr. Bridges as Mr. Kim McGarrity Mr. Bridges' Daughter as Mr. Bridges' Daughter. Brendan Gleeson Frank as Frank. Megan Burns Hannah as Hannah. Events like this could happen in real life. The Rage Virus was created by using the Ebola Virus as a means to transmit an inhibitor that regulated anger control issues.

Two Cambridge scientist, fictional characters in 28 Days Later Clive and Warren were hired to try to isolate the specific neuro-chemicals that that causes anger and excessive aggression in humans. As I mentioned above, they were attempting to develop an inhibitor that regulates and control anger issues. Since the aerosol or pill form would not work in spreading the anger inhibitor, the two scientists came up with a horrible idea to use the Ebola Virus as a delivery system.

After two weeks, several isolated genomes in the Ebola Virus reacted to the inhibitor and created a mutation. This mutation caused the inhibitor to have the opposite effect. Instead of repressing anger, it causes the infected person to become full of constant and uncontrollable rage, thus creating the Rage Virus. In the movie 28 Days Later, the virus began to spread from infected chimpanzees that were being used as a test subject.

The chimpanzees were released from captivity by a number of animal activist. The Rage Virus highlighted in both 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later spread through the blood and saliva and is extremely infectious to the point that just one droplet of infected fluid is sufficient to infect a host. The Virus is typically spread through bites from the infected but can also be distributed through saliva transfer.

Other ways the Rage Virus can infect someone would be from an infected vomiting infected blood in a hosts face. Once a host is infected it will only take between 10 to 20 seconds before they succumb to the infection. It also appears that the amount of time it seems to take for the R age Virus to take over at hosts depends on the amount of the infected fluid that is directly exposed to the victim.

To give you an example, someone would almost instantly be infected if an infected vomit a few mouthfuls of fluid directly on the persons face.

If a single drop would only infect a host then it would take upwards of 20 seconds before the Rage Virus would begin to affect the victim visibly. The infection will also cause capillaries to hemorrhage making the host frequently vomit blood and bleed from the eyes and nose. The eyes of the infected host will almost immediately turn scarlet red.

This is followed by violent and uncontrollable anger and aggressiveness coupled with the suppression of greater intelligence. From that point on the infected will seek out and brutally attack anyone they encounter. The Rage Virus grants the infected host great quantities of grandeur and endurance, therefore, permitting them to spontaneously rampage over miles and miles of territory and overrun entire towns.

Rage is a strain of the Ebola virus and while its psychological manifestations are more like those of Rabies ; it does preserve some of the physical symptoms of Ebola-like characteristics like the red eyes, internal and external hemorrhaging and bleeding. Primates are seemingly the only animals able of carrying the red fibers.

The disease is easily transmissible through any bodily fluid. Because of this extreme contagiousness and very short incubation time, thousands within one area could be infected through one single Infected in under an hour. Rage is a recombinant strain of Ebola , and while its psychological symptoms are more like those of Rabies , it does retain some of the physiological symptoms of Ebola red eyes, internal and external hemorrhaging and bleeding.

The Rage Virus is also bloodborne and capable of infecting only primates; characteristics which it presumably retained from the Ebola Virus it mutated from. Certain people such as Alice and Andy Harris possess a natural immunity to the symptoms of the Rage Virus; if the Virus infects one of these immune people, they will become a carrier of the disease but will remain immune to its effects. Carriers are still capable of infecting others though, as their blood and saliva still carries the Virus, but they will not display any symptoms of Infection themselves except for the left eye's sclera partially turning red.

Alice Harris' bloodshot left eye; the only apparent symptom of infection seen in Carriers. Billingsworth 's statement that the American black operation in Scotland had found evidence of Carriers would suggest that there were other Carriers besides Alice and Andy ; Alice was killed by her infected husband, Don, due to kissing her, and Andy's fate after landing in recently-infected France is unknown. Scarlet Levy believed that a Carrier's blood could be used to find a vaccine or possibly even a cure for Infection, but Alice was killed by her infected husband and her body incinerated during the Code Red firebombing, and Andy's fate and whereabouts after the Rage Virus spread to France is unknown.

Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Rage Virus. View source. History Talk 3. Animal activists invade a laboratory with the intention of releasing chimpanzees that are undergoing experimentation, infected by a virus -a virus that causes rage.

The naive activists ignore the pleas of a scientist to keep the cages locked, with disastrous results. Twenty-eight days later, our protagonist, Jim, wakes up from a coma, alone, in an abandoned hospital. He begins to seek out anyone else to find London is deserted, apparently without a living soul. After finding a church, which had become inhabited by zombie like humans intent on his demise, he runs for his life. Selena and Mark rescue him from the horde and bring him up to date on the mass carnage and horror as all of London tore itself apart.

This is a tale of survival and ultimately, heroics, with nice subtext about mankind's savage nature. A group of animal rights activists break into a lab and release monkeys from their cages to rescue them, despite warnings from a scientist that the monkeys are contagious. As a result of the animal rights activists' actions, a virus that the monkeys contained rapidly across Great Britain and infects numerous people.