Pandemic

Genesis of a Plague
Right now, in a remote corner of rural China,
a farmer and his family are sharing their water supply with their
livestock: chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep. They share the same
waste-disposal system, too.
Bird viruses meet their human
counterparts in the bloodstreams of the swine, where they mix and mutate
before spreading back into the human population. And a new flu is
born....
Dr. Noah Haldane, of the World Health Organization,
knows that humanity is overdue for a new killer flu, like the great
influenza pandemic of 1919 that killed more than twenty million people
in less than four months. So when a mysterious new strain of flu is
reported in the Gansu Province of mainland China, WHO immediately sends a
team to investigate.
Haldane and his colleagues soon discover
that the new disease, dubbed Acute Respiratory Collapse Syndrome, is far
more deadly than SARS, killing one in four victims, regardless of their
age or health. But even as WHO struggles to contain the outbreak, ARCS
is already spreading to Hong Kong, London, and even America.
In
an age when every single person in the world is connected by three
commercial flights or fewer, a killer bug can travel much faster than
the flu of 1919.
Especially when someone is spreading the virus on purpose...