The only things they know for sure about the disease are minor aches, followed by fever, convulsions, and death. The mysterious disease is circling the globe faster than anyone believed possible. It's stretching out from the interior of Africa, reaching into the cities of Australia, and windswept deserts of the southwest U.S. With no solutions from established science, can an international collection of amateurs solve the unsolvable? Using tribal and scientific medicine from around the globe, a few young scientists may be humanity's only defense.