The Ebola virus is a deadly virus that causes bleeding and the destruction of internal tissue in humans. The Nova movie was about an Ebola epidemic in Zaire, Africa during the summer of 1995. As a result of this epidemic two hundred and forty-two of the three hundred and fifteen people infected, died. A previous outbreak occurred in the same area 19 years earlier, and according to the movie, the strands of Ebola and its symptoms were virtually identical. Once an epidemic begins there is no safe place on earth and a military quarantine must be imposed. The epidemic in Zaire was traced to a surgical procedure on a lab worker in a local hospital. Patient zero (the first person to show symptoms of the disease) was narrowed down to be Gaspard Menga. As a result of constant contact with the dead during the traditional burial p
erformed in Zaire, the virus spread rapidly, infecting and killing most of the victim's family. When an outbreak occurs an international team of doctors travel to the spot to eradicate the virus as efficiently and rapidly as possible. When a person is discovered to have or been killed from the virus, a group of medical students immediately trace all possible people who might have had contact with that person. Usually the family members are the ones who have contact with them and they are typically the first tracked down by the students and the first to contract the virus. When a person is alive but diagnosed with the virus they are quarantined to a hospital where they wait to die. The workers in the hospital wear four layers of clothing and the hospital itself is surrounded by a moat of bleach as an attempt to contain th
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