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What disease is Thrax?

posted 18 years ago by jessie-mc
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Okay I am a HUGE Osmosis Jones fan and for the 4 years I have loved it I have always wondered "What disease is Thrax?" I have researched on the web and there's no disease called the Red Death. I did for a moment think he was Anthrax but he didn't match it's description. Anthrax does raise your tempature but you get it from Infected Animal Skins and you get a horrible skin mark. So does anyone have any information?
Thrax is my favourite character and I would be very grateful if someone could answer my question

[–] hollankreil 18 years ago

Possibly Scarlet Fever, which incidentally could be used as a character name in itself for a female virus in a similar film.

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[–] EMiller152 18 years ago

Jessie-mc, I have a nagging feeling I've seen your name somewhere before. Do you have an account at either deviantART or fanfiction.net? Or maybe Fanart Central?

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[–] borchers34 18 years ago

It's the Red Death man, lo muerte rojo

[–] phenoboy 18 years ago

Yeah, you're right. I looked it up on wikipedia.

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[–] TheAngryLioness 18 years ago

Yeah but winkipedia lies a lot. It's an open sit. You can submit anything you want which is why I dont use it for projects.

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[–] kinneyboy90 18 years ago

I learned all I know from wikipedia. And, in all modesty, I'm a genius.

[–] kinneyboy90 18 years ago

Scarlet fever, although it's not very serious an illness.

[–] Quiscalus 18 years ago

I read somewhere that it is Red Death, which is (I don't think) a real disease. It's mentioned in Edgar Allan Poe's The Masque of the Red Death.

[–] arcomoonspore 18 years ago

its tuberculosis (sp?), although i dont recall bill murrey ever coughing up blood. its just the old schoole slang term for it.
edgar mentions it a lot in his poems because it killed his wife.

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[–] bashamo9 18 years ago

I heard he was Antrax too, although a lot of they symptoms don't quite match. I think he's sort of a made-up illness.

[–] rich-hanson59 18 years ago

he's supposed to be antrax however they got creative because anthrax IS NOT a virus it is A BACTERIA. But yes he is anTHRAX

[–] blackhelmetman-1 18 years ago

it's not like his name is (an)Thrax or anything...but he could also be the Red Death, aka Edgar Allen Poe

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[–] forgotten_mango 18 years ago

Thrax is a disease called Anthrax. It is a serious disease that usually affects animals. People working with sick animals or their products can suffer sores, swelling, fever, pneumonia, blood poisoning and death. Frank worked with animals at the Zoo, so that explains how he got it.

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[–] kps27 11 years ago

Thrax is a disease called Anthrax.

Can't be anthrax, anthrax is a bacteria, and this specifies that it is a virus. Although it's possible that the writers got this detail wrong.

[–] rojo306 18 years ago

it could still be anthrax, remember that he's at the zoo with bob and eats that egg that falls in the animal's cage, so there's your infected animal skin for ya

[–] rocket_man92 17 years ago

I read about it being the Red Death on Wikipedia, too, but if you recall the article, as well as The Masque of the Red Death the Red Death's symptoms were sharp pains and bleeding out the pores. It also killed you in a half hour. He survived a for a long time.

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[–] wolfofmoonandsun 17 years ago

I recall hearing him mentioned as being a pimped up version of the Hong Kong Chicken Flu.

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[–] District9 15 years ago

Do you think kids would have liked this movie if they showed Bill Murray's face bleeding out? It's called "artistic license," geez.

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[–] sillybilly452 17 years ago

i would say anthrax an-thrax. i think it makes sense

[–] parisaniee 17 years ago

Well what they talk about in the movie and what's in "Masque of the Red Death" is probably different. I don't know what Thrax is, but the Red Death everyone else is talking about is the bubonic plague, it's kinda of disguised in Poe's story. That was in the 1500s, so I doubt it's what they're talking about in this movie.

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[–] OhMyMadnesS 15 years ago

I thought that that was the point, that it hasn't been a big disease for a long time and thrax wanted to be in the spotlight again. Also the doctors didn't know what was going on, so I thought that maybe it was because they hadn't ever seen it.
Just what I was thinking while watching.

[–] liberty_mks 13 years ago

There is no such thing.

Thrax is a made up disease for a movie, it probably represents nothing or a mixture of different diseases.

[–] HellsBelle666 13 years ago

I don't think he is a recognized disease, as when he is talking in the Kidney club or whatever, about the people that he has killed, he says that he's going to "Get his own chapter in the Medical book"