Was Corona virus Predicted in a 1981 Dean Koontz Novel?

The World Health Organisation declared the novel corona virus a pandemic on Wednesday, March 11. The virus has spread to over 100 countries, with over 140,000 confirmed cases. In such a scenario, where fear and anxiety has taken over people, the distribution of fake news is on the rise. A photograph from The Eyes of Darkness, the thriller novel by Dean Koontz has gone viral over social media with a claim that the novel predicted the corona virus outbreak much before. Hence it is evident from our fact-check that the claim is Dean Koontz did not predict an outbreak of a new coron avirus.