Outbreak (film)

Outbreak is a 1995 American medical disaster film directed by Wolfgang Petersen and very loosely based on Richard Prestons nonfiction book The Hot Zone. The film stars Dustin Hoffman, Rene Russo and Morgan Freeman, and costars Cuba Gooding, Jr., Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland and Patrick Dempsey.

Motaba, a fictional virus which causes a deadly fever, is discovered in the African jungle in 1967. To keep the virus a secret, U.S. Army officers Donald McClintock Donald Sutherland and William Ford Morgan Freeman destroy the army camp where it was found to be infecting soldiers.In 1995 the virus resurfaces in Zaire. Colonel Sam Daniels Dustin Hoffman, a USAMRIID virologist, is sent to investigate. He and his crewLieutenant Colonel Casey Schuler Kevin Spacey and new recruit Major Salt Cuba Gooding, Jr.gather information and return to the United States. Daniels asks his superior, nowBrigadier General William Ford, to issue an alert. Despite his prior knowledge, Ford tells Daniels the virus is unlikely to appear. ........

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