The year is 1968, and there is an epidemic that is sweeping Upstate New York, killing babies at an alarming rate. The government and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been called in to investigate why so many babies are dying from all these diseases. They find a single doctor who is responsible for the deaths of nearly one hundred babies, but why would a doctor do this and has the government found out the whole truth? The Herculean serum is the first intelligent virus on earth.