The virus detectives of the Center for Disease Control (CDC) risk their lives daily at the bottom of nature to confront the world's deadliest pathogens. Regis takes us on a fascinating odyssey, chronicling the CDC's extraordinary 50-year history against the backdrop of the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Zaire -- & exploding the media-driven myth of the coming plague.Ó Starting from a small government agency founded for the purpose of eradicating malaria in the 1940s, the CDC has grown into a disease-fighting behemoth whose sphere of action is the entire planet. Explores the CDC's battles against Lassa fever & Legionnaires' disease.