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Congo is a 1995 American science fiction action-adventure film based on the 1980 novel by Michael Crichton. It was directed by Frank Marshall and stars Laura Linney, Dylan Walsh, Ernie Hudson, Grant Heslov, Joe Don Baker and Tim Curry. The film was released on June 9, 1995, by Paramount Pictures.[1][2] It received negative reviews, but performed better than expected at the box office.[3]
Congo was released on VHS and LaserDisc on November 21, 1995. The LaserDisc release is THX certified and consists of widescreen and pan and scan fullscreen versions.[7] A widescreen VHS release debuted a year later on September 10, 1996.[8] The film was then released on DVD on July 27, 1999.
In May 1995, an international team characterized and contained an outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EHF) in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Active surveillance was instituted using several methods, including house-to-house search, review of hospital and dispensary logs, interview of health care personnel, retrospective contact tracing, and direct follow-up of suspect cases. In the field, a clinical case was defined as fever and hemorrhagic signs, fever plus contact with a case-patient, or fever plus at least 3 of 10 symptoms. A total of 315 cases of EHF, with an 81% case fatality, were identified, excluding 10 clinical cases with negative laboratory results. The earliest documented case-patient had onset on 6 January, and the last case-patient died on 16 July. Eighty cases (25%) occurred among health care workers. Two individuals may have been the source of infection for >50 cases. The outbreak was terminated by the initiation of barrier-nursing techniques, health education efforts, and rapid identification of cases.
A hand painted drawing depicting the Lost City of Zinj from Frank Marshall's 1995 sci-fi film, Congo. Loosely based off the Michael Crichton novel, the film follows an expedition into the jungles of the Congo to locate a missing CIA research team. Led by an intelligent gorilla named Amy, the expedition finds more than they bargained for when they reach the Lost City of Zinj. Illustrations like this were can be seen hanging in the research offices of Berkley where primatologist Dr. Peter Elliott (Dylan Walsh) teaches Amy to speak through sign language.
Congo is the 1995 feature film adaptation of the Michael Crichton bestseller of the same name. Directed by Frank Marshall, the film follows a group of scientists who travel deep into the Congo jungle while searching for some colleagues who have gone missing after their camp was destroyed by an unknown force. The cast included Dylan Walsh, Laura Linney, Ernie Hudson, and Bruce Campbell.
Ernie Hudson is game to return as Monroe Kelly in Congo 2 if a sequel to the 1995 movie ever gets made. Directed by Frank Marshall and written by John Patrick Shanley, Congo is based on the original Michael Crichton novel of the same name. It starred Hudson as Captain Monroe Kelly, the leader of a group tasked with searching the vicious gorilla-filled Congo to find a missing diamond-hunting team.
Michael Crichton published Congo the novel in 1980, but the movie adaptation didn't get released until 1995. It turns out that it really shouldn't have taken that long. Crichton had actually sold Fox on the idea of Congo before the story was even written, planning to turn it into both a novel and screenplay, as well as direct the adaptation himself. He wanted Sean Connery, who he'd previously worked with on 1979's The Great Train Robbery, to star. That sounds like an easy sell, and it was. The problem was actually entirely on Crichton, who absolutely insisted that Amy, the gorilla who speaks in sign-language throughout the story, be played by an actual gorilla.
It is a theatre in that it produces plays, sells tickets, and has a membership base. Since its founding almost 20 years ago, the Castillo Theatre has mounted nearly 100 productions by some 20 playwrights, including Bertolt Brecht, Ed Bullins, Aimé Césaire, Laurence Holder, Heiner Müller, Yosef Mundy, Peter Weiss, and its own artistic director and playwright-in-residence, Fred Newman. It has built a diverse, nontraditional audience that fills its small auditorium for virtually every performance. Its 1995 production of Season in the Congo by Césaire was invited to the 1996 25th SERMAC (Service Municipal d'Action Culturelle) Festival in Martinique, and its production of Peter Weiss's Marat/Sade won "Best of the Fest" at New York City's first Midtown International Theatre Festival in 2000.
Alkhurma virus (ALKV) was discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1995 in a butcher with suspected Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. His fever developed after he had slaughtered a sheep from the city of Alkhurma. Diagnostic testing identified a flavivirus as the etiologic agent (1,2). Subsequently, ALKV was isolated from the blood of 6 male butchers in Jeddah, and another 4 cases were diagnosed serologically. This disease was named Alkhurma hemorrhagic fever (ALKHF) because the first case was reported from the Alkhurma governorate (1).
In previous seroprevalence studies, amongst 1,517 apparently healthy persons tested in five regions of the Cameroon, a positive rate of 9.7% was found with highest rates amongst Pygmies (14.5%), young adults (11.6%) and rain forest farmers (13%) [38]. In CAR, the seropositivity rate was 5.3% and Pygmies appeared to have a higher seroprevalence than non-Pygmies (7% versus 4.2%) [21]. During the 1995 outbreak of Ebola virus disease in the region of Kikwit (Democratic Republic of Congo), villagers had a greater chance of exposure (9.3%) than forest and city workers (2.2%) [39]. In a large study conducted in 220 villages in Gabon (4,349 individuals enrolled), antibodies against EBOV were detected in 15.3% of those tested, with the highest levels in forested regions (17.6% and 19.4% respectively in forest and deep forest areas), suggesting the occurrence of mild or asymptomatic infections [40,41]. In the Republic of Congo, seroprevalence values reported in the late 1980's were 7.8% in Pointe-Noire and 6.2% in Brazzaville [22].