It's December 2012--only days away from the day the Mayan's believed the world would be destroyed, when Dr. Gabriel Stanton is called to the bedside of a man suffering from fatal insomnia. Meanwhile, a young Guatemalan-American scholar is given a priceless codex from the lost kingdom of the Maya. Little does he know it's linked to the dying man and the key to stopping the end of the world.

In an effort to provide local health partners comprehensive guidance for the investigation and control of communicable diseases in Colorado, the CDPHE Communicable Disease Epidemiology Program is creating the Colorado Communicable Disease Manual (CD). In general, these chapters pertain to sporadic cases of reportable conditions. Additional chapters and supplemental forms will be added as they are completed.

Colorado is one of ten states participating in the Emerging Infections Program (EIP). This program is a population-based network designed to assess the public health impact of emerging infections and to evaluate methods for their prevention and control.

The world as we know it has changed forever. The reason is Coldbrook. The facility lay deep in Appalachian Mountains, a secret laboratory called Coldbrook. Its scientists had achieved the impossible: a gateway to a new world. Theirs was to be the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, but they had no idea what they were unleashing.