Two years after Michael Crichton's "The Andromeda Strain" was published in 1969, the movie adaptation came to theaters. Directed by Robert Wise, the film was a box office success; moreover, a 2003 publication by the Infectious Diseases Society of America noted that The Andromeda Strain is the "most significant, scientifically accurate, and prototypic of all films of this [killer virus] genre ... it accurately details the appearance of a deadly agent, its impact, and the efforts at containing it,