![]() ![]() ![]() While the portrayal of Lt Col Jaax as the lone crusader leading the fight against the disease may be stretching the truth a little, the fear of an Ebola epidemic spreading across the country was very real at the time. The Hot Zone, which premieres on UK television on September 10, stars Julianna Margulies – star of the Good Wife and ER – as Lieutenant Colonel Nancy Jaax, the woman deployed to protect the US from one of the world’s most terrifying diseases. Thirty years ago the United States stood on the brink of a terrifying public health nightmare: Ebola had arrived on its soil and there was just one woman qualified to stop it in its tracks.Īt least, this is the premise of a new television drama based on real-life events in the US in 1989 and a non-fiction book of the same name by Richard Preston. ![]()
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