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1) Contagion
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When a lethal airborne virus with the power to wipe out humanity is unleashed, the worldwide medical community races to find a vaccine and stop the panic from spreading. This edge-of-your-seat thriller follows the deadly path of a virus that is beyond containment. Researchers for disease control, the military, the World Health Organization, and ordinary civilians mobilize to try and find a cure and the cause before it's too late.
3) I am Legend
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The last man on earth is not alone. Somehow immune to an unstoppable, incurable virus, military virologist Robert Neville is now the last human survivng in New York City. He believes he may be the last human alive in the world. Mutant plague victims lurk in the shadows. They watch Robert's every move and wait for him to make a fatal mistake. Robert is driven by only one remaining mission - to find an antidote using his own immune blood. But, he is...
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On the night of the State of the Union address, President James Allaire expects to give the speech of his career. But no one anticipates the terrifying turn of events that forces him to quarantine everyone in the Capitol building. A terrorist group calling itself "Genesis" has unleashed WRX3883, a deadly, highly contagious virus, into the building. No one fully knows the deadly effect of the germ except for the team responsible for its development-a...
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Dirk and Steele detective agency volume 7
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2011
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"Duty called Dr. Rikki Kinn to the Congo. One of the world's top virus hunters working for the CDC, she is on a mission to investigate a deadly new plague. But there are those determined to stop her--at any price. Shape-shifter Amiri was born in this land of untamed splendor. Here he woke with the sun and raced as the cheetah...until he was kidnapped and subjected to terrible experiments by the evil Consortium. Now his colleagues and brothers in Dirk...
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End time saga volume 4
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[2018]
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Steele and his followers retreat before the might of Colonel Jackson's rogue military unit. Jackson is always two-steps ahead in their small apocalyptic war and Steele's back is against the ropes. Back in her small hometown of Hacklebarney, Iowa, Gwen struggles to convince her cautious neighbors to provide refuge for Steele's haggard forces. If she doesn't succeed, Jackson's noose will tighten and her friends and loved ones will be crushed on the...
10) End time
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End time saga volume 1
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[2016]
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A highly contagious microbe is spreading unchecked through the streets of Kinshasa, killing everyone in its wake only to bring them back again as the ravenous undead. Only Dr. Joseph Jackowski, a CDC virologist, understands the extent of the outbreak at hand. The doctor may hold the key to fighting the virus, but nothing matters unless the team of elite counterterrorism agents can rescue him and get him back to Washington, DC alive.
11) The breaking
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End time saga volume 2
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[2017]
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Dr. Joseph Jackowski is the only person alive who can stop the zombie virus but he's been conscripted into the National Guard and is no closer to developing a cure. Meanwhile, retired Air Force Colonel Michael Kinnick is looking for Dr. Jackowski in West Virginia where he finds, instead, former counterterrorism agent Mark Steele and his group facing off with a town of ruthless survivors.
12) The rising
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End time saga volume 3
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[2018]
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Steele has successfully guided his group to the shores of Lake Michigan only to find his family home in ruins and his mother missing. The area is controlled by a cult calling themselves The Chosen and if Steele and his band of survivors don't fall in line, The Pastor will make an example of them. Dr. Jackowski is safe inside the Cheyenne Mountain Complex until one of his team becomes ill with the virus.
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2023.
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"She gave up everything - and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the woman who stopped a pandemic, from the bestselling author of Mrs. Poe. In 1940s and '50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. No one's life is untouched by this disease that kills or paralyzes its victims, particularly children. Outbreaks of the virus across the country regularly put American cities in lockdown. Some of the world's best minds...
17) Frankenstorm
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[2014]
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In a secret government lab, virologist Fara McManus tries to stop an experiment out of control--before more human subjects are infected. But in a blazing hail of bullets, survivalist Ollie Monk launches a paramilitary attack on the lab, releasing the infected into the night. And as the nightmare escalates to a fever pitch, internet blogger Ivan Renner traces the destruction as it claims more victims, beginning with a single mother unknowingly spreading...
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[1997]
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From Central and South America to a deadly outbreak of a mystery virus in the American Southwest, from fieldwork in Egypt and the mountains of Kenya to immobilizing an army unit to stop a gut-wrenching outbreak of Ebola only miles from Washington, D.C., this book takes us backstage in the inevitable clash between biology and human lives. Because of new, emerging viruses, and the return of old, "vanquished" ones for which vaccines do not exist, there...
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2022.
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"A mysterious, 1200 year-old corpse and a sudden outbreak of a fatal viral disease in a snow-bound Wisconsin village has the CDC scrambling as eccentric townspeople and drug mules put all involved in jeopardy. When a 1,200-year-old corpse called the Iceman is discovered in the Alps, a Swiss professor, to avoid regulations, smuggles the samples into the United States. When a blizzard diverts the professor's flight to Chicago, Customs is hectic, and...