Outbreak (the movie)

[Jeremy L. Milum]

T Bannor (tbannor at aol.com) wrote:
: I saw "Outbreak" over the weekend and I have the same criticisms listed
: previously. One question though: What was the thing in the micrographs
: showing the virus? I am a former researcher for Upjohn, but not a
: virologist. However, that thing didn't look like any virus I've seen
: pictures of. It looked like a light micrograph of a germinating fungal
: spore or something similar. If it really was a virus, does anyone know
: what it was?

It was a picture of a filovirus.  Similiar pictures are in the
book _Hot Zone_ by Richard Preston.  They are characterizied
by their thread like appearance

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