Hardly an American 'Stand' in...

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Originally Posted by alatar

You obviously haven't read the *uncut* version of The Stand.

Actually, I have. It's notable that the disease of the book was a "superflu", deliberately modified to be of the "shifting antigen" varity, which was the cause of its overwhelming mortality rate. This real event involves an apparently entirely natural disease caused by endemic environmental factors.