Well we all survived the Mayan calendar prophesy, but people still worry about the end of the world and how that will happen. One of the potential ways the world could end, or at least the living creatures of the world is through a pandemic, some kind of virus that kills us off. And of course we worry about viral warfare and terrorism. So how much would a thriller about a viral outbreak be? Well, here to talk to us about that is the author of Virus Thirteen, Joshua Alan Parry.