It can be hard to balance drama and accuracy when one of the series’ most key lines is “the antibodies are in the plasma!” but the series makes it work. What The Hot Zone does very well is focus its story on science and procedure. But thanks to the suspicions of Lieutenant Colonel Nancy Jaax ( Julianna Margulis), the virus was stopped before the situation endangered millions. Ebola Zaire, the strain that devastated African villages in 1979, was still fairly new and considered extremely rare. The 6-episode The Hot Zone (which will run over three consecutive nights) is primarily focused on a 1989 outbreak of what would become know as Ebola Reston, which was first discovered in monkeys in a DC-area facility and misdiagnosed as Simian Hemorrhagic Fever.
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