That's "Captain Trips" Cluin!;)

I found myself thinking the same thing actually...but I don't think we will find that this was a virus engineered by the US government. Still and all, China does have an enormous population so one wonders about the proposed efficacy of a virus that wipes out 6% of the population...but by that logic, some madman would just as likely have introduced it into India, or parts of Africa, or the USA for that matter...

Captain Trips was an idea that turned into a catastrophe because of an accident...and fictional, to boot. But King was onto something way back then, when he posited a world in which the most likely source of Armageddon would be a bug created in a military laboratory for the purpose of killing.