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Initially, it has infected an US government ], which crashes near a village in ], the disease killing all inhabitants but two. An elite scientist team takes the disease into a laboratory deep underground to study it. When the disease is about to escape, an automatic mechanism is engeged which will detonate a nuclear weapon inn the comlex in an attempt to eradicate all traces of the disease before it reaches the surface. Unfortunately, it turns out that the alien disease thrives on gamma radiation. Initially, it has infected an US government ], which crashes near a village in ], the disease killing all inhabitants but two. An elite scientist team takes the disease into a laboratory deep underground to study it. When the disease is about to escape, an automatic mechanism is engaged which will detonate a nuclear weapon inn the comlex in an attempt to eradicate all traces of the disease before it reaches the surface. Unfortunately, it turns out that the alien disease thrives on gamma radiation.

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The Andromeda Strain is a book (ISBN 0345378482) by Michael Crichton about a disease of extraterrestrial origin which causes rapid clotting of the blood and damage to rubber gaskets.

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Initially, it has infected an US government satellite, which crashes near a village in Arizona, the disease killing all inhabitants but two. An elite scientist team takes the disease into a laboratory deep underground to study it. When the disease is about to escape, an automatic mechanism is engaged which will detonate a nuclear weapon inn the comlex in an attempt to eradicate all traces of the disease before it reaches the surface. Unfortunately, it turns out that the alien disease thrives on gamma radiation.