Outbreak (1995, Warner Bros., dir. Wolfgang Peterson) has a town infected with a monkey virus (not "monkeypox"). The vectors were illegally imported into America. As the political climate unravels, the government contemplates obliterating the town—with residents in it—with a shock-and-awe weapon. This film was shown to an AP Chemistry class in northern Virginia when I was substitute teaching in 2005. Starring Dustin Hoffman and Morgan Freeman.
At the same time, a TV film,. Robin Cook's Virus (1995, dir. Armand Mastroiana, based on Robin Cook’s novek) tells a similar story, Ebola (or maybe Marburg) virus spreads from monkeys, liquefying the organs of its victims in a story that resembles Robert Preston's book The Hot Zone, which will become a TV film in late 2005.
Hot Zone: I also remember the speculation about "Ebola Reston" in 1987 as well as the 2014 mini-outbreak. Preston's book became a National Geographic documentary which I have not seen. The book was sold at a mini cafeteria book fair at my employer the 1990s.
These films should not be confused with the clumsy effort Virus (1999, Universal, dir. John Bruno) where an electronic life form takes over a research vessel and threatens to wipe out the world (but it is 'we' who are the 'virus'.)
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