Pandemic

You decide to take a walk in the park. It would help relax you after your ordeal. For two hours, you stroll around the park. Afterwards, you decide to head home. Dawn is rapidly approaching. You can already see thin streaks of sunlight across the darkened sky. After another hour, you reach the sidewalk in front of your house. As soon as you step inside, you turn on the television. The news is on. Just as you are about to change it, however, you hear the name of your street. "Yes, Clara, there has been a death on Harlington Avenue," says the newsman, who is reporting live at the scene. "Medical officials have yet to release the cause of death, but some are sure it is the rumored Hemophilus Settitious that is supposedly spreading like a wildfire. Apparently, it was a young woman in her twenties that was killed."
You quickly realize how lucky you were. According to rumor, HS did different things to different people, which was why it was so hard to describe. Supposedly, it started with a man working for a government top-secret assignment...