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I need book suggestions based on this idea I have for a novel:

>new viral disease reaches pandemic levels
>starts with flu like symptoms
>leads to deadly brain inflammation and death in those with already compromised health
>lowers IQ
>progresses to various forms of frontal lobe damage
>erratic behavior, memory loss, speech disorders and personality changes such as total loss of inhibition
>tons of bizzarro world behavior
>ends with a violent zombie like state before death
>5 childhood friends deal with the issues arising, they mourn the changes their family members undergo
>one of them catches the disease, confronts traumas in the form of hallucinations and out of bodies experiences before believing himself to be his own father and committing suicide mimicking his own father's suicide
>crescendo is them fleeing a mob of crazed homeless people, one girl gets separated and raped
>one guy commits a heroic sacrifice in order to save his girlfriend and gets stabbed to death in a stairwell
>body of the novel consists mostly of trying to stay safe, keeping up with the news, while going about their day to day life as the disease progresses and things start falling apart

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