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Xbola: A Science-Fiction Action Story
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ISBN10: 1524586129
ISBN13: 9781524586126
Publisher: Xlibris Us
Published: Feb 22 2017
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781524586126
Publisher: Xlibris Us
Published: Feb 22 2017
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.37 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Rebecca is accepted for a Ph.D. program in one of the Southern California's universities. Her main research works for her doctorate thesis is working on two different microorganisms which one of them has symbiotic life cycle and the other one is a flesh-eating bacterium. She wants to do some genetic engineering and produce a new species of living creature which can convert very cheap organic materials to food which is needed for humans' future. Tom who is another student in the same university and is her boyfriend dies due to a very mysterious new disease which has no cure and is extremely dangerous. No one in medical community can easily understand the complications associated with the newly emerged disease. Several months later in Mexico, a similar disease appears and for some unknown reasons spread among people with low hygiene. Since the symptoms of the disease is like what caused Tom's death, Rebecca becomes interested in it. The mysterious disease has some characteristic like Ebola and therefore later authorities name it Xbola. It creates lots of national attentions. Like what is going on with Ebola, there will be many problems associated with this subject especially because USA is close to Mexico and authorities in USA are afraid if sick people illegally move to USA and bring the cause of the mysterious disease to USA. Rebecca gets involve in the disease which caused her boyfriend death. By contacting CDC and doing lots of Epidemiological works and investigations she will soon realize that weeks after the death of his boyfriend, a flight stewardess and a cleaning lady in a hotel in Atlanta also died due to the similar disease which is 100% deadly with no cure. Soon the news is spread, and a very threatening situation happens in USA. At the same time several people who purchased food from two supermarkets in San Antonio and Houston show the symptoms of the disease. People with minor medical issue rush to medical centers and many problems effect on people's ordinary lives. By doing lots of investigating by FBI, finally authorities find out that the origin of the newly emerged Microorganism is Rebecca's own works and the disease spread through her boyfriend. Authorities also soon realize that the disease, if not controlled, could wipe out all humans on the surface of the Earth. Finally, authorities find out the people who got their hands on the Microorganism and wanted to take it out of USA for terrorist reason and by very complicated and many excitements at different stages of the story arrest the people behind the terrorist act only hours before it gets too late. Obviously, there are many excitements especially when Alex and Rebecca prevent transfer of the germ and after Rebecca is kidnapped by ISIS people.
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