Modern and contemporary literature
- Albert Camus' The Plague (1942) and Stephen King's The Stand (1978) depict the social implications of plague-like pandemics, particularly regarding isolation and failures of the state to contain the disease and moderate the growing panic.
- The 2016 novel Fever by Deon Meyer describes the results of a bioengineered virus where survivors besiege one another for resources.
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