Outbreak (1995)

Zakes Mokae: Dr. Benjamin Iwabi

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• Sam Daniels : Do you know the incubation period?

  Dr. Benjamin Iwabi : No. But it kills in two or three days. The mortality rate is 100%.

  Sam Daniels : Jesus. Could an infected person have gotten out of the village?

  Dr. Benjamin Iwabi : If he did, he'd be dead or dying in the jungle. And it's 50 miles to the nearest village.

  Sam Daniels : First case? Patient zero?

  Dr. Benjamin Iwabi : A young man called Murazo worked with a white man to build a-a road into Kinshasa. And when he returned, he was sick.

  Sam Daniels : I see.

  Dr. Benjamin Iwabi : And he drank from this well. From there it spread through the entire village.

  [Sam takes a look at the well, and then turns back to Benjamin] 

  Sam Daniels : Did you identify the carrier? The host?

  Dr. Benjamin Iwabi : No. When he arrived the boy was incoherent. He died, uh, two hours later. He couldn't tell us how he got it.

  [Sam looks up and notices a healthy villager chanting on the hills] 

  Sam Daniels : He's not sick.

  Dr. Benjamin Iwabi : [looks toward the villager]  He's a local juju man. Witch doctor. He stayed in his cave a whole week.

  Sam Daniels : I'd like to talk to him.

  Dr. Benjamin Iwabi : No, he talks to me. You see, he believes that the gods were awoken from their sleep by the men cutting down the trees where no man should be. And the gods got angry. This is a punishment.