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Jun 2, 2020 · “The book written by Dean Koontz in 1981, ‘The Eyes of Darkness,’ wrote on pages 353 to 354 that China has developed a virus known as Corona Virus in a lab in the city of Wuhan, to be used ...
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Feb 18, 2020 · It's true that Koontz named a fictional biological weapon "Wuhan-400" in this novel. It's also true that Wuhan, China, is the city at the center of the 2020 coronavirus outbreak.
Mar 11, 2020 · Dean Koontz did write about a fictional virus called “Wuhan-400” in the 1989 re-release of his 1981 novel “The Eyes of Darkness”, but symptoms and effects of the disease do not match the ...
Mar 13, 2020 · Author Dean Koontz wrote a novel called "The Eyes of Darkness," originally published in 1981, describing a killer virus that some claimed echoes the current coronavirus outbreak.
Feb 24, 2020 · Social media users have linked a fictional virus called 'Wuhan-400' from a Dean Koontz book to COVID-19. But the connection is a serious stretch.
Feb 19, 2020 · The reference to "Wuhan-400" comes from the 1981 book "The Eyes of Darkness" by Dean Koontz. But Snopes, which fact-checked another claim that Koontz predicted the new coronavirus...
You may have come across claims on various social media platforms that Dean Koontz’s 1981 fictional novel The Eyes of Darkness predicted the outbreak of the deadly novel coronavirus.
