Lassa Fever

Feb 08, 1983 on PBS at 9:00 PM

Summary

A gripping docudrama about a mysterious, highly lethal disease which struck a village in Nigeria in 1969, and the frustrating, seesaw battle against it. NOVA recounts how public health workers came perilously close to accidentally releasing a deadly ... (more)virus in the US.

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