viruses

"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.

In 1946, an alien virus that rewrites human DNA was accidentally unleashed in the skies over New York City. It killed ninety percent of those it infected. Nine percent survived to mutate into tragically deformed creatures. And one percent gained superpowers.

The epidemic sweeping the country is nicknamed Dragonscale for the marks it tattoos across its victims before they burst into flames, and it's quickly tearing civilization apart. Nurse Harper Grayson contracts the disease and then learns she's pregnant. Instead of committing suicide, she decides to live long enough to deliver her healthy baby. Her husband Jakob goes crazy and Harper's only hope is a mysterious figure called The Fireman who has the disease but has learned to control it.

"Brian and his friends are not part of the cool crowd. They're the misfits, the troublemakers--the ones who jump their high school's electrified fence to skip school regularly. So when the virus breaks out, they're the only ones with a chance of surviving"--Provided by publisher.

Explains how bacteria and viruses affect the human body and how the body fights them.

A brutal virus has destroyed most of the human population leaving the paramilitary Propater forces in charge to pursue world domination.

Elijah and Cherubim cross paths with a group of supposed freedom fighters led by an inscrutable man named Colonel Khan. Cherubim is appropriated and reprogrammed, pulling Elijah even deeper into a world of relentless peril.

Elijah seeks help from the Automater, a cyborg crime boss, in his pursuit of Pedro, a sadistic criminal.

A rare killer virus from the jungles of Africa has taken hold in a small California town. There is no cure for this quick and deadly disease, and some people believe that the only way to stop it is to destroy the town--and everyone in it.