The Dying — Leslie Alan Horvitz

How could a trapper know that by excavating a corpse frozen in the Alaskan wilderness for nearly eighty years he might possibly doom the world? For within the frozen flesh lies a dormant danger waiting to be awakened, a highly contagious virus for which there is no known cure. As the epidemic and the panic spreads across the globe, millions will die a terrible death, their blood thickened in their veins. And one scientist will struggle to solve the riddle of the plague, to unravel a medical mystery that threatens mankind...and to uncover a conspiracy of greed, madness and murder.