This is life on a planet devastated by a pandemic, by rising water and many other catastrophes.
Sounds of explosions and gunfire fill the likes Paleta by Brixton chap Kamixlo and Pandemic by Houston grime producer Rabit.
SPILLOVER: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic, by David Quammen.
Many influenza experts credit Hong Kong with having stopped a global pandemic by killing every chicken in the territory within three days.
The declaration of commitment adopted in 2001 by 189 countries was intended to halt and reverse the AIDS pandemic by 2015.
In the 2011 movie "Contagion," a chef in Macao initiates a global pandemic by failing to wash before shaking hands with the character played by Gwyneth Paltrow.
The book to consult until now has been "America's Forgotten Pandemic," by Alfred W. Crosby, first published in 1976 and reissued last year with a new preface.
Early in the year UNAIDS launched the 90-90-90 plan, a global campaign to halt the spread of HIV by 2020 and end the pandemic by 2030.
("Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?") She survives the pandemic by holing up in a spa, and hooks up afterwards with a handful of surviving Gardeners and MaddAddamites.
Hong Kong, a fairly autonomous territory of China, had 18 cases and 6 deaths in 1997 but cut short a possible pandemic by quickly slaughtering all poultry in the territory.
The World Health Organization suggests that it might be possible to contain a pandemic by quickly diagnosing index cases, identifying contacts, prescribing all antiviral drugs, and quarantining, for example.
