Infected plot
A desperate civil servant murders the mayor of Chicago and extracts a blood sample from the body right in front of hundreds of stunned eyewitnesses. With the whole city after him, the killer is shot, but not without passing the blood in a vial to Nick and Lisa, two journalists whose instincts tell them to get the blood tested as soon as possible. The discovery of a strange and unknown protein sparks a government-level conspiracy involving an insect-like bacterium that could lead to a potential pandemic. A pandemic like the world has never seen before...