But there is another author who many claim predicted the outbreak of a deadly contagion in the years 2020.
In her 2008 book End of Days: Predictions and Prophecies about the End of the World, supposed psychic Sylvia Browne wrote of a pneumonia outbreak ravaging the world.
The book reads: “In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments.
“Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it has arrived ... Read even more