Based on the eponymous international bestseller by Richard Preston, The Hot Zone recounts the terrifying true story of the origins of the Ebola virus, a highly infectious, deadly virus from the ...
Lt. Col. Nancy Jaax takes matters into her own hands when she convinces an employee at the research facility to hand over more samples from the infected monkeys. Meanwhile, at USAMRIID Jaax and ...
When representatives from varying agencies disagree on how to handle Jaax's discovery, she realizes there are few protocols in place for containing a deadly virus on U.S. soil. An employee at the ...
The terrifying story of the first outbreak of Ebola in the U.S. comes to National Geographic with a cast that includes Julianna Margulies and Topher Grace.
In 1989, the Ebola virus appears in chimpanzees in a research lab in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., and there is no known cure; a U.S. Army scientist puts her life on the line to head off an outbreak before it spreads to the human population.
Spillover is the concept that a virus can jump from one species (reservoir host) to another. See more »
Goofs
Nearly every security protocol explained in the series as vital for handling the kind of virus that they worked with goes out of the window at the first possible occasion. This goes especially and most visibly for the main roles. See more »
In addition to all the inaccuracies documented in these comments, another thing that ruins this miniseries is all the relationship crap. Husband-wife spats. Teenagers acting all scared. People getting up out of bed to kiss, then getting back in bed and dying. And why is Colonel Jaxx's father in this at all? To show you can die of other things besides Ebola?
If you want to see a good disaster miniseries, check out CHERNOBYL on HBO. Not a bunch of mothers worried about their teenagers. Yuk.
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In addition to all the inaccuracies documented in these comments, another thing that ruins this miniseries is all the relationship crap. Husband-wife spats. Teenagers acting all scared. People getting up out of bed to kiss, then getting back in bed and dying. And why is Colonel Jaxx's father in this at all? To show you can die of other things besides Ebola?
If you want to see a good disaster miniseries, check out CHERNOBYL on HBO. Not a bunch of mothers worried about their teenagers. Yuk.