In Ling Ma's novel Severance, an outbreak of Shen fever from Shenzhen in China turns New York into a zombie city and face-masks, designer ones for the rich, become the new normal. Dean Koontz’s The Eyes Of Darkness is getting renewed attention — the book mentions a deadly virus, Wuhan 400, which he described as a “severe pneumonia-like illness” that spreads attacking “lungs and bronchial tubes” and “resisting all known treatments”.
Steven Soderbergh's 2011 film Contagion tracks the outbreak of a virus from Hong Kong, which goes on to cause a pandemic and societal collapse. In one scene, Kate Winslet’s character,
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