NOVA: Ebola - The Plague Fighters
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: WGBH BOSTON VIDEO
EAN: 0783421268395
Format: Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: WGBH BOSTON
Manufacturer: WGBH BOSTON
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: WGBH BOSTON
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 05, 2007
Running Time: 54 minutes
Sales Rank: 38604
Studio: WGBH BOSTON
Theatrical Release Date: 1996
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Editorial Review:
Description:
Enter the 'hot zone' of one of the most frightful diseases on the planet- Ebola.
When a dreaded outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus swept through a remote region of Zaire in May 1995, NOVA was the only film crew permitted into the 'hot zone.' Spending a total of four weeks in the quarantined city of Kikwit, the result is unprecedented journalistic coverage of this grim battle against one of the world's most lethal diseases.
The Ebola plague kills a very high percentage of its victims (77% in Kikwit), often by dissolving their internal organs and connective tissue. Learn how disease specialists traced the origins of the outbreak by compiling a complete 'chain of death' of the epidemic, and why they fear a mutation of Ebola will emerge that is even more difficult to contain.
Average Rating: 
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- Repsectful documentary of a terrifying virus.Though I already expected a NOVA production to be a top-notch and scientific (not tabloid-type) coverage ... Read More
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- ONE outbreakThis documentary never mentions "globalization." However, by showing that there had been outbreaks among ... Read More
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- Puts you in the Hot ZoneThis is truly an incredible piece of film. I teach biology at a medium-sized university and purchased this ... Read More
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