Outside of Roanoke, Virginia, health officials scramble to find the origin of a deadly bacterial outbreak of pneumonia.
Health officials in Albuquerque, New Mexico face an outbreak of a rare and fatal blood disorder. Patients suffer sharp muscular pain, fatigue, fever a...
In late August of 1999, an infectious disease specialist in Queens, New York reports that she has two elderly patients with neurological disorders. Mo...
In August of 1998, Marilyn Miller is awakened by her son's frightened cries. She finds him suffering from a dangerously high fever and severe abdomina...
On the tiny resort island of Martha's Vineyard, landscaper, Patrick Ryer, suffers from chills and high fever. Patrick has contracted Tularemia, a rare...
A hospital in Walkerton, Ontario is flooded with patients with the same alarming symptoms. All suffer from fever, nausea and gastrointestinal problems...
In the summer of 2001, Debby Stoner's family begins to exhibit severe flu like symptoms. Upon visiting the family, who live in a small village on Maui...
For months, members of the McGuire family suffer from chronic illnesses, bronchitis, pneumonia and abdominal pains, fever and chills. When Amy McGuire...
During December of 1999, public health authorities in Alberta, Canada are notified of two cases of a rare form of bacterial meningitis. A third report...
In December of 1979, a young girl passes out on a bus in Wisconsin. She is taken to the hospital complaining of a sore throat, fever and aching muscle...
Canadian doctors are alarmed when a middle-aged woman dies of cryptococcal meningitis in 1999. Over the next few years, doctors see dozens of similar ...
In 1993, aquatic researcher Joanne Burkholder suffers an array of troubling symptoms while working in her North Carolina State University lab. A fello...
When an unpredictable germ terrifies Texas in 1998, the CDC and health officials alert all neighboring states and territories to be on the lookout for...
A classic case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, Genene Jones killed at least 47 patients with the muscle relaxant succinylcholine while working at Bex...
Nine hundred children are sent home from school and thousands inoculated during an outbreak in Massachusetts that depletes local supplies of antibioti...
An unassuming male nurse from Kentucky comes under scrutiny when hospital officials notice that death is unusually prominent during his work shifts. I...
Dr. Harold ""Fred"" Shipman was known as a dedicated, hardworking and community-minded doctor who spent his life gaining the trust of his patients and...
Reverend Dwight Moore is at death's door when he is transferred from his local hospital to Memorial Hospital in Chapel Hill. With all the expertise an...
In an exclusive Kansas City suburb, cardiologist Mike Farrar is suddenly stricken with a powerful and mysterious stomach illness. The violent and terr...
Phil Rouss realizes a lifelong dream when he opens an antique auto restoration business with his long-time friend Steve White. They divide the work - ...
Robert Curley is newly married and is renovating an old home for he and his wife, Joann. He is also an electrician doing repair work in a local chemis...
Donna Boley of St. Louis, Missouri, has suffered flu-like symptoms for months. One day she's rushed to the hospital with organ failure and becomes par...
When two young children in Idaho are diagnosed with food poisoning, doctors have no idea that within days the situation will get out of control, as tw...
