We're lead to believe that the scientists have deduced Beth as the index patient but then we get to see for ourselves at the end of the film that the chef was the person who touched the infected pig and then touched Beth. So wouldn't the chef have been the index patient?
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shareI couldn't find the thread. Was the Chef patient zero?
It doesn't matter at all. I'm going to be all right, in spite of it all.
Maybe the chef got lucky and only spread the disease and didn't get it himself...
shareWe saw, what we saw. They were piecing together evidence. Nobody was leading anybody to believe anything. The chef could have been, or maybe it was the pig.
shareThis is a great question. I was wondering the same thing. One of my friends who also saw the movie said that maybe the chef was just a carrier and never got the virus. Maybe after touching the pig's mouth and then shaking hands with Beth, the chef thoroughly washed his hands (and washed the virus away and never got sick). That is one theory but we can never know for sure because we never saw the chef get sick.
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the chef was not patient-zero, he only carried the bat-pig virus to Beth where it "jumped" into the human population (from animals) by incubating in her body and morphing from an animal infection into a human virus - that's what made her patient zero for the human virus.
humans are exposed to animal viruses all the time, but viruses don't (infectively) jump from one species to another so quickly or easily or we'd have lots more of them plaguing the population.
just like not everyone who becomes exposed gets sick, not everyone who is exposed to an animal virus has a body that enables conversion to a human virus - the chef didn't, Beth did
Just as everyone who gets the virus does not die, as this virus morality rate was not 100% or even close to. (Just adding to what you said)
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the chef never carried the human virus because it didn't exist until Beth.
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We actually just watched this in my public health nursing class. The index patient is the first known patient afflicted with a disease. They/we didn't know about the chef until the end. We never know if he gets sick or not. He wasn't on the CDC or WHO's radar, so that is why Beth is the index patient.
shareif the chef or anyone he'd been in contact with had gotten sick it would have been on the radar. Mears is seen interviewing her co-workers in the states who were in contact with her even before she left on her trip to Hong Kong. Her entire itinerary was examined and meeting the chef was part of her job duty.
the real plot hole - no one ever thought to look at her camera? her husband or any of the researchers who quarantined and interviewed him never thought to check it?
The chef most likely had been exposed to numerous pig viruses in the past due to his work, so he was highly resistant to the disease and thus probably never even got a sniffle much less got sick.
shareThe Chef wasn't a major semen dumpster like Beth, its probably why the virus cooked in her body. She was the perfect whorecubator, if she had HIV we might have had airborn AIDS easily transmissible like the flu.
sharethough I never saw it quite described the way you have, when the movie first debuted a few science sites had comments noting that chances are, Beth's immune system was a touch compromised which can enable virus morphing
shareLol! I'm going to steal the term "whorecubator".
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