viruses

Sixteen-year-old Kaelyn challenges her fears, finds a second chance at love, and fights to keep her family and friends safe as a deadly new virus devastates her island community.

They came from the sky parachuting out of military helicopters to invade Tucker Pierce's idyllic hometown on Pemberwick Island, Maine. They call themselves SYLO and they are a secret branch of the U.S. Navy. SYLO's commander, Captain Granger, informs Pemberwick residents that the island has been hit by a lethal virus and must be quarantined. Now Pemberwick is cut off from the outside world. Tucker believes there's more to SYLO's story. He was on the sidelines when the high school running back dropped dead with no warning. He saw the bizarre midnight explosion over the ocean, and the mysterious singing aircraft that travel like shadows through the night sky. He tasted the Ruby -- and experienced the powers it gave him -- for himself. What all this means, SYLO isn't saying. Only Tucker holds the clues that can solve this deadly mystery. Look to the sky because Pemberwick Island is only the first stop.

Examines the discovery of the Ebola virus, a virulent hemorrhagic fever, first seen decades ago, and reaching current world notice with a recent outbreak in Kikwit, Zaire.

Set in a futuristic Manhattan after a catastrophic flood called the Wash Out, Ren must race against a conspiracy to find freshwater springs and a cure for the deadly disease that has stricken her sister and many others in the Ward.

Mark and Trina struggle to survive as modern civilization is destoryed by sun flares and mutating diseases.

Former NERDS teammate Heathcliff Hodges introduces a virus to Arlington, Virginia, home of the NERDS headquarters, and it transforms people into superintelligent criminal masterminds. Flinch is determined to destroy the virus, and in order to do that, he must shrink himself and take a trip through Heathcliff's body.

The Morningstar Strain has decimated the Earth's human population and left the rest as ravening zombies. For the survivors, it is the beginning of their new, terrifying lives. Sawyer, a devious agent of the Reunited States of America, believes that one of the survivors, Dr. Anna Demilio, already possesses the cure, and will stop at nothing--even the killing of non-infected humans--to find her and take it for his own.

"Once there was a world's end. The forests burned, the lakes and rivers dried up, and the oceans swelled. Then came a plague, and fever spread across the globe. Families died, violence reigned, and man killed man. Next came WICKED, who were looking for an answer. And then they found the perfect boy. The boy's name was Thomas, and Thomas built a maze. Now there are secrets. There are lies. And there are loyalties history could never have foreseen. This is the story of that boy, Thomas, and how he built a maze that only he could tear down"--Provided by publisher.

Thomas Hunter finds himself at the crux of the fates of both realities as scientists race to find an antidote to the virus that may wipe out all life and Thomas is forced to make a choice about his love, which could leave the Circle in ruins.

Explains what viruses are and why they make people ill. Details efforts to study viruses' structure in order to develop vaccines against them. Includes color photographs, a glossary, and additional reading sources.