Headlines about the Zika virus destroying babies’ brains in the womb have shocked the world. Beyond the fear and awe-inspiring pandemic disease, this film reveals the origins of this seemingly harmless disease secretly spread across half the world undetected for decades until it exploded in a deadly epidemic and the scientists who worked to uncover the mystery and fight Zika.

Headlines about the Zika virus destroying babies’ brains in the womb have shocked the world. Beyond the fear and awe-inspiring pandemic disease, this film reveals the origins of this seemingly harmless disease secretly spread across half the world undetected for decades until it exploded in a deadly epidemic and the scientists who worked to uncover the mystery and fight Zika.