THE WORMWOOD VARIANT

In 2085 NASA discovers bacteria in suspended animation on a mega-comet and brings a sample back to earth for study. However, a freak accident during reentry enables the aggressive pathogen to escape into the planet’s ecosphere triggering the start of an ‘extinction level’ crisis.  

Everyone at the NASA Astrobiology Institute is wiped out in seven short days but not before a requested sample arrives at the CDC in Atlanta.  The CDC begins sequencing the alien DNA only to discover that it has a bizarre expanded genetic alphabet never before seen on earth.  Within twenty-four hours everyone at the CDC is infected.  An urgent call is made to Dr. Johnny Churchill, a prominent scientist with uncanny superhuman abilities for assistance in finding a cure.  But not everybody is onboard with making a vaccine readily available for everyone.  Certain despots view the alien pathogen as something with great potential for exploitation.  Delays, hidden agendas and dangerous side effects leave the world irrevocably altered.