"Around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread across the globe, attacking the lungs and bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments. "

"In 'End of Days' (2008), Browne wrote that 'in around 2020' a severe pneumonia-like illness would spread across the globe, attacking the lungs and bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments, then 'suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived'. "