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The Andromeda Strain

The Andromeda Strain is a book (ISBN 0345378482) by Michael Crichton about a team of scientists who race to investigate a deadly disease of extraterrestrial origin which causes fatal rapid clotting of the blood and damage to rubber gaskets.

The book was used as the basis for a movie of the same name.

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Initially, it has infected an US government satellite, which crashes near a village in Arizona, the disease killing all inhabitants but two. An elite scientist team takes the disease into a laboratory deep underground to study it. When the disease is about to escape, an automatic mechanism is engaged which will detonate a nuclear weapon in the complex in an attempt to eradicate all traces of the disease before it reaches the surface. Unfortunately, it turns out that the alien disease thrives on gamma radiation.



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