When a viral mutation causes a protein in the human brain to malfunction, an infectious form of one of the world’s most terrifying diseases is born. Gifted epidemiologist Lucy Cho joins a crack team of scientists at Melbourne’s Centre for Disease Control valiantly trying to isolate the deadly pathogen.
In a desperate race against time, she pools resources with renowned colleague Doctor Marius Placebo to identify the virus’s genomic sequence and help develop a vaccine before it sweeps the globe and decimates mankind. Given the disease’s effect of making its victims babble incoherently, the world’s media dubs it the gibberish flu.
As things get weirder, and indeed more absurd, Lucy finds herself travelling halfway across the world in search of a cure – and ultimately to the very ends of the earth in a quest to ensure the survival of humanity …
Genre: Literary Fiction
In a desperate race against time, she pools resources with renowned colleague Doctor Marius Placebo to identify the virus’s genomic sequence and help develop a vaccine before it sweeps the globe and decimates mankind. Given the disease’s effect of making its victims babble incoherently, the world’s media dubs it the gibberish flu.
As things get weirder, and indeed more absurd, Lucy finds herself travelling halfway across the world in search of a cure – and ultimately to the very ends of the earth in a quest to ensure the survival of humanity …
Genre: Literary Fiction
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