Pandemic

As the epidemic worsens and the death toll rises all over California, the governor and mayor have to find a way around their political differences so that they can make tough decisions dealing with the blackmail scheme, as well as a frightened populace and all of the problems associated with a widespread and deadly epidemic.

After a nineteen-year-old male dies on a flight following a raging fever and violent convulsions, CDC epidemiologist Dr. Kayla Martin and her partner Carl Ratner consider the frightening possibilities -- the reality of the bird flu, the probability of a biological attack, or worse, a new virus they can't control.