Based on the eponymous 1995 international bestseller by journalist Richard Preston, The Hot Zone recounts the terrifying true story of the Ebola virus first arrival on U.S. soil. In 1989, when this killer suddenly appears in chimpanzees in a scientific lab in Reston, VA, there is no known cure. Dr. Nancy Jaax, a heroic U.S. Army veterinarian working with a secret military SWAT team, puts herself in mortal peril as she tries to head off the outbreak before it spreads to the human population.