Nigeria's Ebola Outbreak Gets Nollywood Treatment

Two years after Nigeria fended off what could have been a devastating Ebola epidemic, the 12-week ordeal is playing out again — only this time, on a movie screen. The Nigerian docudrama "93 Days," which premiered in Lagos on Tuesday, chronicles the harrowing weeks in the summer of 2014 when a man ill with the Ebola virus arrived in the city from Liberia. Ebola is transmitted by contact with infected bodily fluids, and Lagos, a densely-populated city of 20 million where people...

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