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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 13, 2020 · Author Dean Koontz eerily predicted the coronavirus outbreak in his 1981 thriller "The Eyes of Darkness." The fictional novel tells the story of a Chinese military lab that creates a new...
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Mar 10, 2020 · As the global community confronts the coronavirus/COVID-19, the first pandemic since 2009's swine flu, some people are proposing that Dean Koontz's 1981 novel The Eyes of Darkness predicted the outbreak nearly 40 years before the first cases in Wuhan, China.
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.
