Andrew McCarthy was originally cast in the role of Dr. Roger Stern, but he stormed off set, complaining that Vincent D'Onofrio was constantly criticizing his acting during the rehearsals. As a result, James Urbaniak was a last-minute recast.
While the Nipah virus is carried by bats it can also be found frequently in pigs; in 1999 a Nipha virus outbreak in Malaysia required the culling of over 1,000,000 pigs, it also infected 257 humans, 105 of which died as a result.
Rift Valley fever virus is often transmitted by mosquitoes and it can also spread by either touching infected animal blood, breathing in the air around an infected animal being butchered or drinking raw milk from an infected animal. The first major outbreak was in Egypt in 1977, some 200,000 people became infected, about 550 died. The virus wasn't really seen for quite some time, the first major outbreak since the '70's was in 2006 in the Sudan. Since then there have been with a little over 300 deaths in Africa from the virus, out of an estimated 50,000 infected.
Rift Valley fever virus is often transmitted by mosquitoes and it can also spread by either touching infected animal blood, breathing in the air around an infected animal being butchered or drinking raw milk from an infected animal. The first major outbreak was in Egypt in 1977, some 200,000 people became infected, about 550 died. The virus wasn't really seen for quite some time, the first major outbreak since the '70's was in 2006 in the Sudan. Since then there have been with a little over 300 deaths in Africa from the virus, out of an estimated 50,000 infected.
Bill Cwikowski (Sgt. Timmins) also played the role of Det. Danny Dougherty in episode 5.5, Acts of Contrition (2005).