Outbreak
(film)
Outbreak is a 1995 American medical disaster film directed
by Wolfgang Petersen. The film stars Dustin Hoffman,
Rene Russo and Morgan Freeman and co-stars Cuba Gooding, Jr., Kevin Spacey, Donald Sutherland
and Patrick
Dempsey.
The film focuses on an outbreak of a fictional Ebola-like
virus called Motaba in Zaire
and later in a small town in the United States. Its primary settings are
government disease control centers USAMRIID
and the CDC, and the
fictional town of Cedar Creek, California. Outbreak's plot speculates
how far military and civilian agencies might go to contain the spread of a
deadly contagion.
The film was released on March 10, 1995 and proved a box office success.
The film was nominated for various awards but failed to garner any major award
nominations. It also raised various "what-if" scenarios: media
outlets began to question what the government would really do in a similar
situation and if the CDC has plans in case an outbreak ever does occur.[citation needed] A real-life outbreak of the Ebola
virus occurred in Zaire only a few months after the film was released.[1]
Plot
Motaba, a fictional
virus which causes a deadly fever, is discovered in the African jungle in 1967. To keep the secret of
the virus, two U.S. Army officers, Donald McClintock (Donald Sutherland)
and William Ford (Morgan
Freeman), destroy the camp where it was found.
Twenty-eight years
later, in 1995, the virus resurfaces in Zaire. Colonel Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman), a USAMRIID
virologist, is sent to investigate. He and his crew, Lieutenant Colonel Casey
Schuler (Kevin
Spacey), and new recruit Major Salt (Cuba Gooding, Jr.)
gain information about the virus and return to the United States, where Daniels
asks his superior, now-Brigadier General William Ford, to put out an alert.
Ford knows that the virus is not new, but he tells Daniels it is unlikely to show
up. Meanwhile, one of the host animals, a white-headed capuchin monkey named Betsy, is illegally brought
to the United States. James "Jimbo" Scott (Patrick Dempsey),
an employee at the Biotest animal holding facility, steals Betsy and takes her
to Cedar Creek, California, to sell on the black market. During the trip, Jimbo
is infected with the virus.
Jimbo unsuccessfully
tries to sell Betsy to Rudy Alvarez (Daniel Chodos), a pet store owner--who is
also infected with Motaba--before releasing the monkey into the woods. Jimbo
starts to show signs of infection while flying to Boston, where he gets off the
plane and kisses his girlfriend Alice (Kellie Overbey), infecting her. They are
both hospitalized. A CDC scientist and Daniels's ex-wife, Dr. Roberta Keough (Rene Russo),
investigates the infections. Jimbo, Alice, and Rudy die from the virus, but
Keough establishes that no one else in Boston was infected.
Meanwhile, the
technicians at a Cedar Creek hospital run tests on Rudy's blood. But Henry
(Leland Hayward III), one of the technicians, accidentally breaks a vial,
splattering the contents, infecting and killing him. The virus mutates into a
new strain, capable of spreading like flu, and numerous Cedar Creek citizens
are exposed to Motaba. Daniels learns of the infection and flies to
Cedar Creek alongside Schuler and Salt, against Ford's orders, joining Keough's
team.
As Daniels and his
team begin a search for the host animal, a state of martial law is
declared in Cedar Creek, and the U.S. Army has quarantined the town to contain the outbreak.
During their research, Schuler is infected when his suit tears. Keough follows
after she accidentally stabs herself with a contaminated needle while collecting
samples due to Schuler suddenly convulsing. A mystery serum, E-1101, is
introduced to those suffering from Motaba. Daniels soon realizes that the serum
is not experimental, but was designed to cure Motaba, and that Ford knew about
the virus beforehand. However, the serum does not help the residents of Cedar
Creek, who are infected by a mutated strain. Daniels confronts Ford, who admits
that he withheld information on the virus due to national security and Motaba's
potential to be turned into a biological weapon.
CDC
David Satcher was
a director at the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC), a director at Johnson & Johnson, the administrator for the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease
Registry, the surgeon general for the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the interim president for
the Morehouse School of Medicine, and
is a board member for the CDC Foundation.
Note:
CDC Foundation
is a foundation for the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
A Look at Johnson & Johnson's Defective Product Recall List
April
5, 2011
Ann Dibble Jordan
was a director at Johnson & Johnson,
is married to Vernon E. Jordan Jr.,
and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think
tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP was a lobby for Johnson & Johnson, and the Progress.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is a senior counsel for Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP, an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), an Oak
Bluffs (MA) homeowner, Valerie
B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg
(think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Louis W. Sullivan
is an Oak Bluffs (MA) homeowner,
was the president of the Morehouse School of Medicine, and the secretary
for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Eric H. Holder Jr.
is a trustee at Morehouse School of Medicine, the attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice for the Barack
Obama administration, was a partner at Covington & Burling LLP,
and a board member for the American Constitution Society.
Covington
& Burling LLP is a lobby firm
for Johnson & Johnson.
Robert Raben was an
assistant attorney general for the U.S. Department of Justice, a director at the American Constitution
Society, and is the president of the Raben Group.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the American Constitution Society,
and the Center for American Progress.
George Soros is the
founder & chairman for the Open
Society Foundations, and was a supporter for the Center for American Progress.
Raben Group was
the lobby firm for the Morehouse School of Medicine.
Melody C. Barnes
was a principal for the Raben Group,
the EVP for the Center for American
Progress, the domestic policy council, director for the Barack Obama
administration, and is Barack
Obama’s golf partner.
Ezekiel Emanuel
is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, Ari Emanuel
& Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother, was the health care policy adviser for
the Barack Obama administration, and a founding chair of the Department
of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health.
National
Institutes of Health is an agency for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Steven A. Hatfill
was a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, and a consultant
at Leidos Holdings Inc.
Steven J. Hatfill
was a researcher at the Leidos Holdings Inc.
The Hunting of Steven J. Hatfill
Why are so many people eager to believe that this
man is the anthrax killer?
1 Who is Steven J. Hatfill?
Hatfill is a 48-year-old scientific
researcher who specializes in emerging infectious diseases. Various details on
his r sum -- to say nothing of a televised FBI raid on his apartment -- have
inspired a mini-industry of speculation that he may somehow be implicated in
last fall's deadly anthrax attacks. But as we shall see, much of that
speculation pretends to be something more: certainty of his guilt, and certainty
that in every nook and cranny of his life must be found some blot or scar or
mark of the devil that proves his guilt. The evidence of his biography, that
which is publicly available, cannot sustain such absolute conviction. But it is
an unusual and interesting biography just the same.
Hatfill was born in St. Louis,
attended high school in Mattoon, Illinois, and studied basic biology and
chemistry at Southwestern College in Winfield, Kansas. After graduating from
Southwestern in June 1975, Hatfill served what Newsweek, citing "a copy of
his military records," calls "a three-year stint in the Army, stationed in the United States." The Newark Star-Ledger, also
claiming to have reviewed his personnel records, says Hatfill remained on some
form of reserve or National Guard duty until January 1981, but by all accounts
his regular Army active duty ended in the spring of 1978, and a few months
later he moved to Africa, where he would live and work for the next 16 years.
Hatfill spent the first six of those
years in Harare, earning his medical degree from what is now the University of
Zimbabwe. In June 1984, he relocated to South Africa for his clinical
internship and residency -- and for a decade's worth of additional study during
which he was awarded three master's degrees (microbial genetics and recombinant
DNA, medical biochemistry and radiation biology, and hematological pathology)
and completed at least some of the work necessary for a doctorate in molecular
cell biology. Hatfill finally left Africa in the summer of 1994 and spent a
year doing clinical research at Oxford University before
returning home to the States for good.
On a postgraduate training fellowship
from the National
Institutes of Health, Hatfill worked at
NIH headquarters in Bethesda, Maryland, and other civilian federal laboratories
until the fall of 1997. Then he took another two-year fellowship, this one from
the National Research Council, to the nation's top biowarfare defense
laboratory, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)
at Fort Detrick in Maryland. There Hatfill
investigated therapeutic responses to "filoviridae," the family of
primate-borne tropical viruses, Ebola and
Marburg specifically, that cause lethal hemorrhagic fever in humans. By the
time Hatfill's Fort Detrick grant expired in September 1999, he had already
undertaken related research at a private-sector laboratory in McLean, Virginia,
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), which does federal
biodefense work on contract.
SAIC fired him in March of this year
shortly after a newspaper reporter phoned the company seeking a response to
rumors that Hatfill, whose name had not yet dribbled into public view, was
under FBI investigation in connection with last fall's anthrax murders. Eight
months earlier, an unrelated CIA polygraph examination -- which reportedly
generated unresolved questions about Hatfill's account of his life in Africa --
had led that agency to refuse him the "top-secret" security clearance
necessary for certain SAIC projects. And, pending review of that refusal, Hatfill's
basic-level "secret" clearance had been suspended, as well. The
extent to which this security issue figured in SAIC's eventual decision to fire
Hatfill remains unclear, however, and there are indications that SAIC may have
been less than fully confident about the move; Hatfill's attorneys say the
company later offered him a financial settlement, and the company itself has
acknowledged having retained him, following his formal dismissal, as an outside
consultant.
In any case, whatever the exact circumstances
of his separation from SAIC, that incident alone had no immediately damaging
effect on his career as a whole. Hatfill quickly found a new and important job
as associate director of the National Center for Biomedical Research and
Training at Louisiana State University. And it was to this new job in Baton
Rouge that he was preparing a final move when, on August 1, the FBI -- with
whose earlier anthrax-case inquiries Hatfill had, by all accounts, cooperated
fully -- suddenly executed a court-issued criminal search warrant at his
Frederick, Maryland, apartment. The raid was covered live on national
television.
Ari Emanuel is Ezekiel
Emanuel & Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother, the co-CEO & director
for the William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, and was a trustee at the American
Film Institute.
Dustin Hoffman
is a William Morris Endeavor Entertainment client, and an actor
in the film Outbreak.
Rahm I. Emanuel
is Ezekiel Emanuel & Ari Emanuel’s brother, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, the Chicago (IL) mayor, and was the White House
chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.
Rahm Emanuel Quote
You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that
it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.
R. Eden
Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Newton N. Minow
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was an
intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP was a lobby firm for the Johnson & Johnson.
Dora Hughes is a
senior policy adviser for Sidley Austin LLP, and was Kathleen
Sebelius’s counselor at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS).
Agency
for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry is a division of the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Sylvia
Mathews Burwell is the secretary for the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS), was an Oxford University Rhodes scholar, a
director at the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, and the president,
global development for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation was a
funder for the Debt AIDS Trade Africa, the Bloomberg Family
Foundation, and the World Health Organization.
Bloomberg
Family Foundation was a funder for the CDC Foundation, and the World
Health Organization.
CDC Foundation
is a foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Michael R.
Bloomberg is the founder of the Bloomberg Family Foundation, and was
a benefactor for the Harlem Children's Zone.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Harlem Children's Zone,
and the Center for American Progress.
George Soros was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a benefactor
for the Harlem Children's Zone, married in 2013, and a supporter
for the Center for American Progress.
Jim Yong Kim was
a George Soros’s guest at 2013 wedding, and a director, HIV-AIDS
department for the World Health Organization.
Rockefeller
Foundation was a funder for the World Health Organization, and Center
for American Progress.
Ezekiel Emanuel
is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, Ari Emanuel
& Rahm I. Emanuel’s brother, was the health care policy adviser for
the Barack Obama administration, and a founding chair of the Department
of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health.
National
Institutes of Health is an agency for the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS).
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