It's also kind of the plot of Dan Brown's 'Inferno', per wikipedia: > Brooks explains that Zobrist was a geneticist who advocated the halting of humanity's gro

It's also kind of the plot of Dan Brown's 'Inferno', per wikipedia: > Brooks explains that Zobrist was a geneticist who advocated the halting of humanity's growth, and that he... had supposedly developed a new biological plague that will cause infertility in a third of the worlds' population, in order to solve the problem of the world's impending overpopulation... ...The plague that Zobrist created is revealed to be a vector virus that randomly activates to employ DNA modification to cause sterility in one third of humans. Close enough! it's hard to have an original idea