NOVA Ebola - The Plague Fighters

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."" 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.