Motaba

The Motaba virus is a hemorrhagic virus in the 1995 movie Outbreak It has a 100% mortality rate and is a VHF (Viral Hemorrhagic Fever) which cause a fever and intense bleeding internal and external. It was discovered by Brig. General "Billy" Ford and Maj. General Donald McClintock in 1967. It was so disastrous that they used a fuel bomb and incinerated an army camp. The virus reappeared in a rural village and killed the entire population in days. It shows fever in 4 hours and kills in little over 24 hours. The symptoms later identified in the movie. Later in the movie the virus mutates not only making it waterborne and blood borne but also airborne causing it to spread like In other pop culture it was mentioned in Pretender Series, Season One, Episode "A Virus Among Us"..

The Host
The host of the Motaba virus was a white-headed capuchin monkey. This monkey was smuggled from Africa to the U.S. on a shipping vessel where it was then transported to a biological testing facility but was smuggled out by Jimbo. After this, an unlikely turn of events causes it to infect a few people then Cedar Creek.

Known Outbreaks
In 1967 Brig. General Ford and Maj. General McClintock discovered the disease in an army camp in Africa. The situation was so out of hand that they decided to fuel bomb to both destroy the outbreak and, at the same time, study it so that it can be used as a biological weapon. A couple decades later another popped up in a village in Zaire (now called Congo). Sam, Casey, and Salt were sent to investigate but by the time they got there the village of 100 people had been ravaged by the unforgiving virus. Finally, after it reached America, it would infect two in Boston before finally arriving at Cedar Creek, California where the it would kill over 2,000 people.

Known Antiviruses
An anti-serum known as E-1101 was developed by the Army at the first outbreak of Motaba in 1967 though it was ineffective in stopping the new airborne strain, and a anti-serum was created by Sam and Salt from the infected monkey anti-bodies. They combined the antibodies with the original serum to modify it for the new strain which was effective. (Though this is unrealistic because it takes months to synthesise a serum.)