Shortly afterward, he visits the fictional National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) in the city to get inoculated against local infections.

The series reaches its climax when Faes realises he is being set up by the state's secret service, because his investigations are getting too close to the source of the outbreak.

Meanwhile, Jokke, who has become disillusioned after seeing so many people he cared for die, rescues a young boy from criminals who are selling his bodily fluids (urine, blood) as a cure because he seems immune.

The viral outbreak was caused by one of his trainees, who carelessly opened a package of man-made mutated avian flu from Brazil.

Cannaerts admits he should have followed protocols for such a dangerous disease, but it was the pathogen he needed to complete his research (before he took a senior position at the United Nations), so he had it delivered secretly by courier.

Angered by these revelations, and the fact that the doctor has no intentions of admitting his culpability, Jokke attacks Cannaerts, deliberately infecting him.

When he finds that the rosters have been changed so part of the cordon has been left unguarded, he joins some soldiers to investigate the district's sewers.

[1] The miniseries, retitled Containment, is set in the US city of Atlanta, and was produced by Julie Plec and directed by David Nutter.