The cases of an elite government medical investigation unit specializing in public health emergencies, such as serious disease outbreaks.
Cast:Neal McDonough , Kelli Williams , Christopher Gorham , Anna Belknap , Troy Winbush , Melissa Weing , Susanna Thompson , Clare Carey , Shea Whigham , Jesse Borrego , Claudia Besso , Chris Massoglia , Katie Mitchell , Michael Petersen , Jeremy Ray Valdez , Alex Castillo , Ulysses Estrada , Diana Rios
When people in New York City start turning the color blue, the NIH team is called upon to help cure this outbreak. When searching for the cause, a diner holds an important clue - but what is the ingredient that they all had in common? Only 3 weeks on the job, McCabe is sent to investigate a baby whose parents are thought to have been abusing her. A well-known disease is the answer to the question - brittle bone disease.
The same fatal disease hits soldiers returning from Iraq and old people in nursery homes who hardly ever get out of their beds.
An island resort has an outbreak of a serious respiratory disease that resembles tuberculosis.
In a small factory town, a group of children are affected by a mysterious illness. The team suspects the local factory of toxic waste, but as it is the main employer in the town, encounter some resistance in their investigation.
At a university in Nebraska 2 football player are hit by a serious neural disease and soon after some club girls fall victims to other symptoms.
Six women in a suburb to Philadelphia get a deadly disease and later some Africans that live in North Philadelphia are hit by similar, but nevertheless different symptoms.
Investigating a small town's mysterious deadly epidemic, the NIH team must confine their patients to the community's abandoned hospital.
A young girl collapses while 'acting' and two more from the same 'industry' are already dead.
An anonymous tip reveals that a hospital in Baltimore has fatal cases of infection after surgery.
Both seals and humans die at Monument Bay in California because of an aggressive infection in the lungs.
A girl seeks desperately help as the rest of her family is hit by a legendary killer.
At Ellesmere Ice Station in The Arctic an infection that seems to be a flue turns into raving madness. Frank's daughter's birthday is imminent so he is eager to return home soon.
Two boys who are brothers from Virginia and two policemen from Baltimore are all infected with plague.
A number of sufferers of sudden worsening paralysis that may be linked to 9/11 while several women at a military base are experiencing miscarriages at once.
Marburg, a disease that makes the unlucky bleed to death, brings three men to hospital.
Two US congressional reps and a Capital Cop fall deathly ill. Bioterrorism is suspected until a commonality arises that is equally explosive politically.