Did this book predict coronavirus outbreak 12 years ago?

A quarantine worker sprays disinfectants on an ambulance worker of the 119 rescue team, who went on his duty amid the rise in confirmed cases of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Daegu, South Korea, March 14, 2020. (Reuters Photo)

WIth the deadly coronavirus spreading across the world in no time, a book published in 2008 had apparently predicted the epidemic 12 years ago.

Pictures of a page from a book titled 'End of Days', written by late Sylvia Brown, is now viral on social media. Kim Kardashian was one of those who shared the pictures on Twitter.
Certain lines in the book make it appear that the author had predicted that an epidemic, much similar to coronavirus, would attack the world in 2020.

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"In around 2020 a severe pneumonia-like illness will spread throughout the globe, attacking the lungs and the bronchial tubes and resisting all known treatments. Almost more baffling than the illness itself will be the fact that it will suddenly vanish as quickly as it arrived, attack again ten years later, and then disappear completely," stated the book.

Another 1981 novel titled 'The Eyes of Darkness' by Dean Koontz had also "predicted" such an outbreak. Apparently, it had also predicted that the disease will originate in China's Wuhan.

The viral pictures have now left people wondering whether the author had actually predicted the coronavirus outbreak or it was just a coincidence.