Pandemics in popular culture

Robert Neville believes he’s the last survivor in New York after an outbreak of the contagious “KV-Virus”. The City is evacuated in an effort to halt the spread. It doesn’t help that Robert loses his family after an evacuation attempt. He’s been living for 3 years with his dog Sam within a fortified apartment with a lab in the cellar where he works tirelessly to develop a cure.

Something horrible is hiding in The Hive, a genetic research lab underground run by the faceless organization The Umbrella Corporation. A deadly virus has been released.

The Red Queen - the supercomputer that controls and controls everything in The Hive - closes all exits again, killing the trapped staff. Alice and Rain are tasked with leading a command force to isolate the virus. However, the team soon discovers that the workers have turned into zombies

Science fiction in which UN official Gerry Lane travels around the world in a fight against time to prevent a zombie pandemic that has hit armies and governments and is now threatening to eradicate all of humanity. Based on the best-selling book of the same name, by Max Brooks from 2006.

A group of people board the high-speed train that will travel between the cities of Seoul and Busan, while the country suffers from an extremely contagious epidemic where the transformation takes a few minutes from bitten human to bloodthirsty zombie. Shortly before the train departs from Seoul Central Station, an infected person stumbles aboard.

When the infection breaks out on board, a bunch of survivors do everything they can to not get in the claws of the infected, while the train is heading towards the destination, which is possibly the only place in the country that has not been taken over by the zombies.

The unthinkable happens: A top secret US military experiment goes wrong and a deadly virus spreads unrestrained. The disaster is evident and soon the world has changed forever. All that remains for the shocked survivors is a struggle for existence characterised by fear of darkness, of death and of a fate worse than that.

In this state of emergency, two people are looking for a safe place where they can hide. It is FBI agent Brad Wolgast and orphaned six-year-old Amy Harper Bellafonte who managed to escape from the military base just before the dreadful event. Wolgast is determined to protect Amy. But for Amy, this is just the beginning of a much longer journey, a journey over time and space, toward the time and place where she must end what should never have begun.

One of Kate Wilhelm's most famous novels returns to print, the spellbinding story of an isolated post-holocaust community determined to preserve itself, through a perilous experiment in cloning. Sweeping, dramatic, rich with humanity, and rigorous in its science, Where Later the Sweet Birds Sang is widely regarded as a high point of both humanistic and "hard" SF, and won SF's Hugo Award and Locus Award on its first publication. It is as compelling today as it was then.

From the author of the Man Booker longlisted The Underground Railroad. A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead.

A military space probe sent to collect extraterrestrial organisms from the upper atmosphere is knocked out of orbit and falls to Earth. Twelve miles from the crash site, an inexplicable and deadly phenomenon terrorises residents of a sleepy desert town in Arizona, leaving only two survivors: an elderly addict and a newborn child.

The US government is forced to mobilise Project Wildfire, a top-secret rescue protocol. Four of the country's most prominent scientists are called to a secret underground laboratory in the middle of the desert, equipped with an automated, self-destructive mechanism in case the mysterious infection begins to spread. Andromeda Strain turns out to be different than anything scientists have ever seen - and what they don't know can not only hurt them, but also lead to an unprecedented disaster worldwide.

A board game based on the PC game of the same name, where each player is a deadly disease and they must fight against each other to spread their plagues, develop new symptoms and ultimately annihilate humanity. Starting with Patient Zero, you spread your infection around the world by placing symbols in cities - earning DNA points and preventing other players from becoming dominant. Players choose which countries to place on the board but you must be both climate resistant and connected to a country before you can infect it. Eventually, when countries get completely infected - you try to kill them with Death Dice.

Pandemic is a game for both the experienced player and entertaining for the family. You play against the game and each player gets their own role in traveling around the world and trying to eliminate infections. In order to succeed, players must cooperate and use each other's skills and knowledge. It must be effective and strategic as new infections and epidemics break out. 2-4 players.

Abandoned cities reclaimed by nature. A population decimated by a modern plague. Survivors kill each other for food, weapons; whatever they can take care of. Joel, a brutal survivor, and Ellie, a young teenage girl who is braver and wiser than her age, must work together if they hope to survive their journey across the United States

Relive Raccoon City's horrific downfall in an incredible remake of the classic 1999 survival horror game. In the nightmarish hours that follow after the events in Resident Evil 2, only you can help S.T.A.R.S police officer, Jill Valentine, escape this city that’s been overtaken

Follow the sad story of young Amicia and her little brother Hugo on a heartbreaking journey through the darkest hours of history. While being chased by the Inquisition's soldiers and surrounded by unstoppable swarms of rats, Amicia and Hugo will get to know and trust each other. In the fight to survive against overwhelming odds, they do everything possible to find meaning in this brutal, unforgiving world.

You are a former lawless biker named Deacon St. John: a trouble-maker, an award hunter, a shard of a man on two wheels. In a world devastated by a global pandemic, St. John the safety of the camps that the survivors have built up to try their luck on the open roads. Against a volcanic background in the northwestern United States, Days Gone gives you the chance to explore a world full of downtrodden, human monsters called “freakers”. Fight your way through the countryside, search for resources and a reason to continue.

A trip to a city where death, madness and nightmarish creatures lurk behind every corner. Hidetaka Miyazaki and FromSoftware announce Bloodborne, an action-packed role-playing game packed with relentless and ruthless terror and developed exclusively for PlayStation 4. Meet your fears as you search for the truth in the ancient city of Yharnam, where an unknown victim broke out and spreads like a wildfire along the streets. The danger is constantly present in this horrific world, and in order to survive you must know its darkest secrets.

Seven months have passed since a deadly virus broke out, paralyzing the population of New York and the rest of the world. When the virus broke out, The Division, a unit of dormant agents, was activated as the last line of defense. Since then, Division agents have been fighting around the clock to save what's left. For The Division, the stakes are higher than ever. Washington, D.C., the most protected city in the world, is in the danger zone, which risks causing the entire nation to collapse. If the capital is lost, the nation will fall. In the role of Division Agent, who has been out in the field for seven months, you and your group are the last hope of preventing society's disintegration following the pandemic collapse.