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Ebola: Ebola Syndrome
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The thing that's easily the most offensive about Ebola Syndrome is the 'animal slaughter'. Although it's quite tame in comparison to some of the more notorious movies that featured footage of animals actually being beaten, slaughtered, mistreated and what-not (80s Italian cannibal movies probably being the best example of this), it still packs a punch to people who care for animals and those who aren't expecting vicious stuff like this. For instance, Kai prepares a meal that apparently has frog intestines in it - and therefore the gutting of a couple of frogs is graphically shown. Later on, three chickens are beheaded - one of them in a seriously (animal-) unfriendly way. However, even if a bit unnecessary and uncalled for, it doesn't make Ebola Syndrome any less enjoyable.
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Armed with sterilized needles and other sanitized hospital supplies and medical equipment, the team of health experts moved quickly to try to contain the outbreak and to educate the citizens of Kikwit about the nature and transmission of Ebola. Until this outbreak, the virus had not been seen among humans for 16 years. Like human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), Ebola can only be transmitted through direct contact with the blood or bodily fluids of an infected individual. Ebola virus does not travel through the air. According to health experts, within days of the initial symptoms, Ebola virus attacks an individual's immune system and can destroy the body's soft tissues, including the liver, heart, and brain. After the first symptoms appear, the virus takes about a week to run its course.
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While Ebola Syndrome has all the ingredients to be downright offensive, it's actually infinitely amusing. Cursing, blood, severed limbs, cursing, sex, torture, cursing, rape, cursing, cursing, and then some - yet all presented in an almost tongue-in-cheek way, making it incredibly hard not to laugh. It all keeps going in a rollercoaster kind of way - you'll take feeling sick to your stomach for granted just to experience the downright dirty fun.
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On October 27, a 40 year-old Gabonese doctor infected with Ebola in Libreville from a patient who was linked to the Booué outbreak flew to Johannesburg, South Africa for treatment. The patient who transmitted EBO to the male physician died on 5 November 1996. The physician was accompanied on a commercial plane to South Africa by a nurse. He arrived to the Morningside Medi Clinic with a diagnosis of rhabdomyolysis (a clinical and biochemical syndrome resulting from an injury which damages the integrity of the sarcolemma of skeletal muscle, leading to the release of potentially toxic muscle cell components into the circulation). He had swinging temperatures of 42°C (normal body temperature is 37°C, was very ill, and had signs of hepatitis. During the course of his treatment, a muscle biopsy was performed (presumably to test for rhabdomyolysis).
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Disctoek has given Ebola Syndrome an all new ‘lovingly remastered’ anamorphic widescreen transfer in the film’s original 1.85.1 aspect ratio. While there’s a bit of grain here and there and some really mild print damage in the form of the occasional speck or blemish, for the most part this transfer is very solid. Color reproduction is excellent and the black levels stay strong and deep. Detail in both the foreground and the background of the picture is strong.
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