BORIS JOHNSON’S FATHER WROTE A BOOK CALLED MARBURG VIRUS IN 1982 ABOUT A MONKEY CAUSED PANDEMIC

Stanley Johnson, the Father of UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, wrote a novel in 1982 about a viral outbreak, that the movie “Outbreak“ was based on. In the Novel, A girl dies from a rare disease, so rare that it can only be recognized by Doctor Lowell Kaplan from the U.S. Government’s top-secret facilities at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia. A desperate search begins to trace the source of the infection. It takes Kaplan from New York to a small town in Germany called Marburg, to Geneva and Brussels, and then on to the jungles of Central Africa, uncovering illegal traffic in wild animals and weapons of biological warfare along the way. The novel was originally titled “The Marburg Virus“.