Before Ebola News Today

>> there are about two dozen. >> usually in isolated areas. this was very different and infected a greater number of people. >> it was a perfect storm and the perfect storm was you had three countries with poor countries with porous borders. they were situations where they had essentially no health care infrasfr inf infrafrustructure. and some of the cultural things, how you bearury the dead, all o that sinn energized to make thi worse. so the preparation of a body for a funeral did that. you pu...

Places that are isolated anymore. with every passing year, theres more and more international travel. an outbreak that occurs in what was a remote village, you have people that will migrate to the capital, especially in a crisis. you go to a capital now, with people who are infected and the capability of the virus now being transmitted to lots and lots of people. those people leaving the capital, going to other countries -- >> animals that normally we might not come in contact with, because the ...

>> and hiv is an example, i think through the phases you described, it was an outbreak and then an epidemic, then a pandemic and now endemic. >> right? >> fair, right? >> it is endemic now. so, it did go through all the stages. >> janet, what do you hope people come away from the film with? >> i think every dau now that i get on the subway and shannon could be sitting next to me and i could have the flu and i could give it to her. and i could kill her and i wouldnt even know. and i never thought...

Storm. >> you actually started working on the film before ebola, how did ebola kind of change the -- >> we thought we were doing a thing about the past like sars and influenza and we were going to look at the future and suddenly the present interscreened. we wept to west africa and we were there for a couple of months and we were there and working on inflew wu weenza and zika happened. >> you were in west africa during the ebola crisis, i just want to play this for our viewers. >> reporter: it o...

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