Speculative Fact #290: Pandemics, Epidemics, and Biblical Plagues

As we see from the Zika virus, diseases can spread faster than ever before in a global age.
            From Michael Crichton’s Andromeda Strain to Stephen King’s The Stand, deadly diseases can either be central to your story or merely help set up the setting.
            You might engineer a super-virus that wipes out most of humanity…or gives the few survivors some new mutant enemy to deal with.

-Jonathan Hernandez

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