So many people had been immunized that herd immunity became taken for granted. Then the anti-vax movement came and the herd immunity weakened and we started seeing diseases we thought had been wiped out forever make small comebacks.
Then came Morris's Disease which was new but presented like measles even in an immunized little girl who had a pediatrician for an aunt. A little girl who became ill while visiting DisneyWorld with her parents and didn't want to miss out on a second of her last day so didn't let them know her throat hurt or she felt bad. A little girl who then flew home while she was burning up and ran into her aunt's arms at the airport.
A little girl who died after infecting who knows how many people.
After the pandemic has spread and the dead mourned, the living are trying to put things back together again and that's when the awful truth starts coming out about the side effects of Morris's Disease and Dr. Isabella Gauly, the aunt of the little girl, is one of the first to be told. She has a plan that may not be entirely legal or ethical but may give the human race a chance for survival and herself a chance for atonement.
As always, Mira Grant knocks it out of the park in doing the research and adding in the medical details to make this truly horrifying in a "this shit could really happen" kind of way with characters that are both sympathetic and complex and that twist at the end to drive things home.
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