The true story of the 1976 discovery of the deadly Ebola virus in the jungle of Zaire. Can the outbreak be stopped before it reaches the country's capital, Kinshasa?
The arrival in Antwerp of a thermos flask containing the blood of a dead Belgian nun was the first step on a path that led a small group of virologists to discover the deadly disease Ebola. This drama reconstructs the events of 1976, and the awful risks taken by a young team of people, flown deep into the rainforest of Zaire to study and fight this virus with only the most rudimentary of equipment.
The drama is narrated by one of the team from 1976 – Professor Peter Piot was a young trainee virologist based in Antwerp who went on to run the UN AIDS programme, and is now the head of the London School of Hygiene And Tropical Medicine.
Cast:
Peter Piot.........Ben Crowe
Breman.........William Hope
Sister Veronika.........Tracy Wiles
Dr Muamba.........Jude Owusu
Guido.........Tom Alexander
McCormick.........Nathaniel Martello-White
Johnson.........Martin T Sherman
Myriam.........Samantha Beart
Directed by Dirk Maggs
Produced by David Morley for Perfectly Normal
Size 40MB. Length 44 Minutes. Bitrate 128kbps
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