In 2019, pre-Covid, National Geographic produced the dramatic Hot Zone television miniseries about a 1989 semi-accurate Ebola scare in the US (based on Richard Preston's 1994 novel of the same name). Its release came in the days when the bio-thriller genre was on par with horror — an adrenaline rush that, practically speaking, was almost as fantastical as a zombie tale (which, technically, is both horror and bio-thriller). — Read the rest
