Ebola is dominating the headlines, and it could soon be on your primetime schedule.

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The recent West Africa outbreak has made the deadly disease topical once more, and now producer Lynda Obst and director-producer Ridley Scott want to bring Richard Preston's Hot Zone to television as a limited series. David Zucker and Jim Hart, who penned the screenplay Crisis in the Hot Zone, are attached as executive producers, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The 1994 novel chronicles the 1989 Reston Virus (a mutated form of Ebola) incident at a primate quarantine facility in Reston, Va. Obst and Scott's series, however, will incorporate the event into the broader history of Ebola hemorrhagic fever.

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"I think it's the speed with which it kills that makes the disease so frightening," Obst explained to The Hollywood Reporter. "People hoped it would stay in some remote part of the world. But that's a fantasy in the modern world. The modern world makes us one big connected family."

Obst and Scott optioned the rights to The Hot Zone back in the '90s, but are planning on taking advantage of the current media coverage to get their work off the ground with Fox TV Studios.

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Ebola, Television