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A 2000 HUGO Honor NOMINEEAncient conditions encoded in the DNA of humans wait like sleeping dragons to wake and infect again--approximately molecular biologist Kaye Lang believes. And now it seems as though her controversial theory is actually chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken, a "virus hunter" at the Epidemic Intelligence Service, has pursued an elusive flu-like disease that strikes down pregnant women and their offspring. A major discovery saturated in the Alps --the preserved bodies of a prehistoric family--reveals a shocking link: something which has slept within our genes for an incredible number of years is getting out of bed.