‘The Hot Zone’: Sneak Peek at Nat Geo’s Gripping Story of Ebola (PHOTOS)

Rick and Christina Gables May 25, 2019, 5:00 pm

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Dr. Nancy Jaax (Julianna Margulies) working in her pathology lab

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The entrance to Fort Derrick.

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Wade Carter (Liam Cunningham), an Ebola expert

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Wade Carter (Liam Cunningham), an Ebola expert, listens as he hears Dr. Nancy Jaxx leaving a message on his answering machine

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Julianna Margulies as Dr. Nancy Jaax

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The pathology lab

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Dr. Nancy Jaax (Julianna Margulies) works with a pipette in the pathology lab

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Dr. Peter Jahrling (Topher Grace), a civilian virologist, in the USAMRIID lab

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Wade Carter (Liam Cunningham) at the Reston Monkey Facility

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Dr. Peter Jahrling (Topher Grace), a civilian virologist looks through the microscope eyepiece with Dr. Nancy Jaax (Julianna Margulies) and Ben Gellis (Paul James)

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Dr. Nancy Jaax (Julianna Margulies) is put in an isolated cell after her suit ripped and monkey blood got into a cut. Her husband, Lieutenant Colonel Jerry Jaax (Noah Emmerich), is trying to figure out how she could have gone in with a cut

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The Hot Zone is a dramatic, high-stakes scientific thriller inspired by true events, and presented by National Geographic Channel as a three night, limited series event beginning Monday, May 27.

Golden Globe and Emmy award winner Julianna Margulies stars as Dr. Nancy Jaax, a heroic U.S. Army scientist who put her life on the line to prevent an outbreak of Ebola, a highly infectious and deadly virus from the central African rainforest. The story is based on the eponymous international best-seller by Richard Preston.

When this killer suddenly appeared in monkeys in a scientific research lab in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. in 1989, there was no known cure. Dr. Nancy Jaax, working with a secret military specialized team, is forced to make a choice between her family and her duty to her country in order to head off the outbreak before it spreads to the human population.