Literature
The Stand (1978)
6/13/1980 · Stephen King
On June 13, 1990, a containment breach at a secret biological weapons facility beneath the Mojave Desert releases Project Blue — also called Captain Trips — into the outside world. A digital clock on the lab wall goes dark at the moment of release; until that day, all its numbers had been green. The superflu, engineered for near-100% lethality, will kill 99.4% of humanity within weeks.