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Un hombre muere de forma misteriosa; la persona que lo ve agonizar, adquiere, al momento, un nuevo virus sumamente agresivo que ataca su sistema nervioso y le provoca dolores inconcebibles. El enfermo, desesperado y con el anhelo de encontrar una cura, trata de descifrar quien era aquel hombre y qué terribles secretos guardaba. Esta es una historia breve, intensa, ágil, se oye con rapidez; a cualquiera nos puede ocurrir, está basada en hechos reales, con un tema central: el sufrimiento humano y cómo enfrentarlo.

An unknown virus sweeps across the globe seemingly overnight. The virus decimates the human population while mutating some into grotesque mutants. Dillon Thompson awakens to the dawn of a newer, more violent world. He must navigate the dangers of this new world along with local gang leaders turned warlords. He fights to protect those close to him and get the answers he desires. Can he confront the sins of his past and embrace them, or will he fall victim to the world descending into chaos?

The end of the world usually signals the end of life. But for convicted murderer Frank Lee, it was only the beginning. With his newfound freedom, Frank suddenly has the world at his feet. The only downside: all the damn cannibals!

Un arma biológica robada. Un plan para destruir Europa Un agente infiltrado se apodera de un virus letal en un laboratorio militar alemán. Su misión: entregarlo a un grupo armado respaldado por potencias extranjeras. Si llega a liberarse, provocará una pandemia global y el colapso de la OTAN. La comandante Sophie Decker y la División 89 reciben la orden de recuperar el arma, detener la conspiración y eliminar a todos los implicados antes de que sea demasiado tarde. Pero lo que descubren es solo el inicio de una operación capaz de reescribir el orden mundial. Un thriller de espionaje,...

An acclaimed science writer takes readers behind the scenes at the Centers for Disease Control to tell the story of an engrossing odyssey across the viral frontier.

A smallpox epidemic begins in a whisper with a single death, and then the name of the victim surfaces: Abdulaziz al-Sherhi. In a nation rich in imagination, this name requires none at all. In the weeks that follow, the epidemic fears crescendo into a national roar. People panic about dying from this horrific terrorist-incited disease and clamor for a vaccination. Maggie Rider, a weary road warrior for a high-tech company, submits to the shot only to realize this is no ordinary immunization.

Iván, banquero y músico frustrado, se ve de repente en medio de una horda de zombis iracundos. Ahora su único objetivo es encontrarse con su esposa, pero comunicarse con ella es imposible y llegar hasta donde está es muy difícil cuando miles de personas están dispuestos a asesinarlo y convertirlo en su desayuno.

When a young woman in New York City dies mysteriously after a trip to Brussels, top epidemiologist Lowell Kaplan identifies the cause of death as the Marburg Virus - a fatal strain that has surfaced only once before in history. Determined to trace the source of the disease, Kaplan follows a trail of intrigue from the labs of Germany to the jungles of Central Africa. With danger nipping at his heels and the secrets of the virus' origin kept deliberately under wraps, Kaplan must go to unimaginable lengths to stop a deadly scheme.

When Stacy goes to a party during a pandemic, the virus is the least of her problems. What takes place is nothing short of pure adrenaline, creeptastic terror. A story you won't want to put down.

A few months before the virus slammed the world, global public health experts declared the United States the most prepared for a possible pandemic. Instead, we watched as the disease killed half a million Americans. A stunned nation has been too busy grieving and doing damage control to ask why, or to comprehend just how much of the blundering and chaos of the pandemic response was either deliberate or entirely predictable. New York Times best-selling author Nina Burleigh weaves together the key narrative strands to create an uncompromising and highly informed expose.