ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: SOAP-BOLA

Hot on the heels of Ebola outbreak, producers Ridley Scott and Lynda Obst announced that they are developing a TV series based on the 1994 nonfiction, best-selling book The Hot Zone. (Instead of the ever-popular “disease of the week," it’s “disease every week!”)

When it comes to dramatized epidemics, primetime is, as usual, late to the party. Daytime has already tackled the subject. As only daytime can!

Read all about Entertainment Weekly's favorite soap-opera epidemics from General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, Guiding Light, One Life to Live and more at: http://community.ew.com/2014/10/21/soap-opera-epidemics/