who is patient zero in the movie contagion
Contagion (film) The source of the virus is revealed to viewers. A bulldozer (coincidentally, operating for the company Emhoff worked for) clears some jungle and disturbs some bats, with one finding shelter and food in a banana tree. That bat then flies over a pig pen, dropping a chunk of banana from its mouth, which is then eaten by a piglet. A chef from the Macau casino chooses the piglet and returns to the casino. As he handles the carcass in the kitchen, getting abrasions on his hands, he only wipes his hands when called to meet a customer â€“ Beth Emhoff. The chef shakes hands with Beth (Mitch views the handshake on her camera in a previous scene), giving her the mix of bat and pig viruses, making the chef patient zero and Beth the second case.