Fictitious fact is taking over internet. This English Novel predicted Coronavirus outbreak 40 years ago.

Due to the coronavirus outbreak more than 1700 people have lost their lives. Chinese city-Wuhan is called as epicentre of the virus, spread from animals and has now reached 25 countries. But did you know a fiction book predicted the Wuhan virus around 40 years ago?

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Dean Koontz' thriller novel The Eyes of Darkness, written in 1981 has mentioned a virus named Wuhan-400. In the novel, the virus was created as a weapon in a laboratory.

Twitterati with a username @DarrenPlymouth has brought this ambiguous reference in knowlegde on social media. The cover of the book and its excerpt, mentioning virus Wuhan-400 in it was posted by the user on its twitter handle.

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The tweet read, "It is a strange world we live in."

At times fiction can be strange and hard to beleive.

Reference of Wuhan virus in the book has taken over the Internet and netizens had a lot to say on this. Here's what they said:

Congress minister Manish Tewari also shared an excerpt from the book and wrote, "Is Coranavirus a biological Weapon developed by the Chinese called Wuhan -400? This book was published in 1981. Do read the excerpt."

Do you believe in this? 


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