Outbreak (1995)

Factual error: Every centrifuge ever made comes with a locking system that prevents the lid being opened while the centrifuge is in motion, so even if someone was as stupid as the lab assistant who put his hand in a spinning centrifuge, they would not be able to.

Sam Daniels: Just don't get negative on me.
Major Salt: Affirmative.

Trivia: The part of McClintock was originally played by Joe Don Baker, who was replaced by Donald Sutherland mid production.

Question: When they are viewing the virus through the microscope, we see its shape is like a long strand, sort of coiled up at one end and uncoiled at the other end (think cobra rearing up). That structure seems too complex to be a virus. Are any viruses really shaped like that?