Contagion (novel)
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Contagion is a medical thriller
Medical thriller
A medical thriller is a type of thriller with major elements regarding medicine, medical practice or surgery. Examples of such works are The Third Pandemic by Pierre Ouellette, Safari by Ahmed Khaled Towfik, works by Robin Cook, and the 2011 film Contagion....

 written by Dr. Robin Cook
Robin Cook (novelist)
Dr. Robin Cook is an American physician and novelist who writes about medicine and topics affecting public health....

. In the story, a deadly epidemic of three different rare diseases is spread by design, by an HMO at the center of the epidemic.
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