Annotated Bibliography

DeNoon, Daniel. "Cold, Flu & Cough Health Center."WebMD. Brunilda Narzario, 1 2006. Web. 20 Oct 2012. Web. http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/features/disease-prevention-traveling.

Airplanes are a good way to spread all different kinds of things; viruses and diseases.  This is a technology that would play a bad part in a pandemic. Airplanes have already played a role in the SARS pandemic that happened a few years ago, “Within eight days, 20 passengers and two flight attendants would come down with SARS. Some of those who became infected were sitting as far as seven rows away from the man carrying the SARS virus. Five would die.”

Macrae, Fiona. "Terror Fear as Scientists DELIBERATELY Create 'Armageddon' Bird Flu Virus in Lab." Daily Mail. N.p., 21 2011. Web. 23 Oct 2012. <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2076422/Bird-flu-scientists-DELIBERATELY-create-Armageddon-virus-lab.html>.

Scientists have the tendency to develop new strains of viruses that could be very harmful to our society.  Scientists already have made a super bird flu that could spread as fast as the winter cold.  This type of research could be helpful in the sense that they now know the different mutation; but this research could easily escape or be taken out of the lab.  Bioterrorism could occur and then this virus is creating a pandemic that kills off the human race.  

"Pandemic Market." Medicago Inc.. N.p.. Web. 21 Oct 2012. <http://www.medicago.com/English/Technologies/Vaccines/Pandemic-market/default.asp&xgt;.

Since more technology has been invented and science is getting more intelligent, the pandemics have had fewer deaths.  The technology is allowing us to figure out a way to kill off the virus faster, having less deaths. 

"Pandemic Flu History." n.pag. Flu.gov. Web. 24 Oct 2012. http://www.flu.gov/pandemic/history/index.html

Some potential pandemics have been saved by earlier studies that were made.  Being able to have this knowledge from the technology can help prevent even more pandemics.  There was a pandemic that had occurred in 1957-1958 that killed over 69,800 people in the United States; this could have been the fear at the time when the movie was being produced.  

Themes&Values

               Last Man on Earth is about this disease that spreads making people mindless, blood drinking, zombies.  People think that one day there will be an epidemic. Now a days, in the labs, scientists make a different strains of diseases so they can prepare to cure it.  If these get out, like the swine flu just recently, it could wipe out the nation if we don't have a cure for it.  Making these different kinds of strains to find cures, is that really helping us? Or is it putting us in risk?  Technology can either help us succeed, or can wipe out the entire human race.   "On June 11, 2009, WHO signaled that a global pandemic of 2009 H1N1 influenza was underway by further raising the worldwide pandemic alert level to Phase 6." http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/cdcresponse.htm.

               Adaption. He found ways to keep the vampires out of his house.  He had to make tools to kill the vampires. He made his living by going into the town and finding new things to survive. He found a way to live even though the world around him was dead.