The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has identified particular viruses as high-priority agents for bio-terrorism because they include organisms that pose a risk to national security. Learn about these category A, high-priority biological diseases which include: anthrax, botulism, plague, smallpox, tularemia, and viral hemorrhagic fever.

"When Dr. Lou Welcome fills in last minute for his boss at a national conference in Atlanta he brings along his best friend, Cap Duncan. But an accident turns tragic when Cap injures his leg while running. Surgeons manage to save the leg, but the open wound is the perfect breeding ground for a deadly microbial invader committed to eating Cap alive from the inside out. Meanwhile, hundreds of miles away, a teenaged girl is fighting for her life against...

L, the world's greatest detective, has twenty-three days to live--and twenty-two days to save humanity from bioterrorists who hope to change the world forever.

On the night of the State of the Union address, President Allaire must quarantine everyone in the Capitol building because a terrorist group has released a deadly, contagious virus into the building. The only expert who might be able to help is virologist Griffin Rhodes, currently imprisoned for alleged terrorist acts himself, including the theft of that same virus.

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