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  • "Special Economics" and "The Effect of Centrifugal Forces" concern bird-flu pandemics in the former, a young heroine battles a Chinese biotech company that has acquired tyrannical power in the plague's aftermath.

    Rapt in Translation; Zombie Zoology Sam Sacks 2011

  • And Uganda, once the plague's epicenter, cut its infection rate by half during the 1990s.

    Fighting The Disease: What Can Be Done 2008

  • And so June 5th has always been, as it were, the plague's birthday.

    Gabriel Rotello: On AIDS 25th Anniversary, the Media Get the Story Right, But the Date Wrong 2008

  • On the last day of the festival, Sept. 18, throngs of celebrating men poured into 'the streets of Surat; one of them became the plague's first victim within a week.

    The Plaque Of Panic 2008

  • The survivors lived in constant fear of the plague's return, and the disease did not disappear again until the 1600s.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • But if those Eastern bloc thugs had been involved somehow in the plague's transmission, or were attempting to prevent Pais and Terzian from sneaking the modified virus to the camps ....

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2003

  • DESPITE SEELA'S BEST efforts, Korsal spent a restless night after he had transmitted his discovery about the plague's pattern of spread to the hospital's epidemiological section.

    The Idic Epidemic Jean Lorrah 2000

  • "The plague's not found me," Bradwarden explained, catching on.

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • "The plague's not found me," Bradwarden explained, catching on.

    Mortalis Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1999

  • First home leave in three galactic years and I have to time my arrival with the plague's.

    The Ship Who Sang McCaffrey, Anne, 1926- 1969

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