When a new hematologist begins practice at St. John's, Dr. Roger Branford and the rest of the staff are happy to have him at the hospital. The new doctor has a fine reputation and is greatly admired.

However, not long after the new doctor arrives, a horrifying and grotesque disease begins to strike the patients. In an attempt to find the cause of the infection, doctors, scientists and even the police become involved. Is this a virus? Or could it be pure evil?

When the answer is finally found, it is shocking.