"EVERYTHING THAT BEGINS, BEGINS WITH BLOOD. . . " Drs. Stephen Pearse and Peter Maryk, young scientists involved in the most cutting-edge disease research, travel to a remote part of the Congo to contain a horrifying virus outbreak in a mining camp. As a desperate measure, the area is bombed to prevent the disease from becoming a worldwide deadly epidemic. But two years later, the virus re-emerges in America, Pearse, now head of the FBI-like Bureau of Disease Control, and Maryk, who runs the clandestine special pathogens section of the disease detectives, have become bitter enemies, but together they must stop the virus's spread. As the virus, with a disturbingly human cunning, continues to elude any vaccine, the threat of a potential worldwide epidemic is once again a frightening reality. In an urgent race against time, Pearse and Maryk discover the shocking truth regarding the new origin of the virus. Using the blood of one woman who is immune to the disease, a serum is created to fight the deadly virus. But the virus has plans of its own. . . .