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English. 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 to cover the outbreak. The Ebola plague kills a very high percentage of its victims (77% in Kikwit), often by dissolving their internal organs and connective tissue.
48. 3.6K views 1 year ago. ...more. In April 1995, the people of a small town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo were terrorised by a lethal virus. This award-winning Nova documentary show...
Program Overview for the NOVA program Ebola—The Plague Fighters: Travel to Kikwit, Zaire, for a close-up look at the 1995 Ebola outbreak and the battle to contain it. 1 hr.
Plague Fighters: Dirigido por Ric Esther Bienstock. Con William Close, Russell Coleman, Stacy Keach, Ali S. Khan. Ric Bienstock and her crew spent a month in Kikwit, sleeping in an abandoned house, filming the course of an outbreak of Ebola virus and the efforts of medical personnel to contain the epidemic.
Aaron Davis Music. Ion Webster Editing. Steve Weslak Editing. Marike Emery Producer. Critics reviews. Ric Bienstock and her crew spent a month in Kikwit, sleeping in an abandoned house, filming the course of an outbreak of Ebola virus and the efforts of medical personnel to contain the epidemic.
Plague Fighters, a one-hour program, is a suspenseful human story of doctors and patients pitted against a terrifying villain in a race between science and death. The Silver Baton was accepted by Paula Apsell, executive producer.
Plague Fighters. Summaries. Ric Bienstock and her crew spent a month in Kikwit, sleeping in an abandoned house, filming the course of an outbreak of Ebola virus and the efforts of medical personnel to contain the epidemic. Of 316 people infected, 244 died, and "no one knows where it [the virus] came from and where it went" (R. B.).
