Outbreak
Frontline · Season 2015 · Episode 6
FRONTLINE tells the vivid, inside story of how the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak began, and why it wasn't stopped before it was too late. The primary focus is documenting how the transmission of Ebola spread so quickly, how the NGOs and Government organizations reacted and what eventually happened that allowed the virus to become contained. Filmmaker Dan Edge spent months on the ground in West Africa, tracing the outbreak's path through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and uncovering the hidden story of what happened before the world started paying attention. With exclusive access to key global decision-makers and health responders, and gripping firsthand accounts of victims from the jungles of Guinea to the slums of Monrovia, Liberia, Outbreak exposes tragic missteps in the response to the epidemic.
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Season
2015
Episode
6
Air Date
05/May/2015
Air Time
22:00
Runtime
60 min
Overview
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FRONTLINE tells the vivid, inside story of how the 2014-2016 Ebola outbreak began, and why it wasn't stopped before it was too late. The primary focus is documenting how the transmission of Ebola spread so quickly, how the NGOs and Government organizations reacted and what eventually happened that allowed the virus to become contained. Filmmaker Dan Edge spent months on the ground in West Africa, tracing the outbreak's path through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia and uncovering the hidden story of what happened before the world started paying attention. With exclusive access to key global decision-makers and health responders, and gripping firsthand accounts of victims from the jungles of Guinea to the slums of Monrovia, Liberia, Outbreak exposes tragic missteps in the response to the epidemic.
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