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...deadly H5N1 avian virus with strains of H3N2 human seasonal flu, creating 254 new, mutated viruses. By injecting them in lab mice, researchers found that some of the hybrid viruses were both deadly (like bird flu) and transmissible (like seasonal human flu) - the kind of genetically mutated superflu viruses that experts have been warning about for decades. (See how to prevent illness...
...book company has already published a dozen issues of a series based on his epic Dark Tower novels, which are among the company's best-selling titles. On Sept. 10, Marvel will begin a 30-issue run of The Stand, King's 1,200-page-plus novel about a superflu that decimates the globe. It's fairly easy to figure out why King's work adapts so easily to comic form, says Ruwan Jayatilleke, a senior vice president at Marvel, who was executive producer of N. "A lot of Steve's work translates visually. That's why so much...
...woods without a bit of fear in the back of the mind. No wonder people pay an unreasonable amount of attention when tabloids trumpet headlines about "flesh-eating bacteria." And no wonder Stephen King's The Stand, a TV mini-series based on his novel about a "superflu" that ravages the world's population, earned some of the year's highest ratings...
...scenes that hopscotch around the country -- a small town in East Texas, a disease-control lab in Vermont, the streets of New York City -- the plague spreads, causing death, panic, chaos. Practically all that remains of civilization is talk-radio etiquette. A radio host (Kathy Bates), enraged about the "superflu" cover-up, takes calls from panicked listeners who tell of dying babies and mass body burnings. Says one caller: "First of all ((cough)), I just want to tell you that I love your show...
...merchandising his own terrors, he developed an infallible formula: "First you create people that you want to live, then you put them into the cooker." Carrie, the paranormal adolescent, was succeeded by the vampires of 'Salem's Lot (1975), the haunted hotel of The Shining (1977), the deadly superflu of The Stand (1978). The clairvoyant young man of The Dead Zone (1979) placed King on the best-seller list for more than six months, replaced by Firestarter (1980), Cujo (1981), a nonfiction investigation of horror called Danse Macabre (1981), and a collection of novellas, Different Seasons (1982). In his spare...
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