A mysterious pandemic fiction novel

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I've recently reread Plague by Graham Masterton, it's over forty years since I last read it. I was somewhat bemused because there was a scene missing from my memory of it, I think this remembrance must be from another pandemic book entirely.

The scene:
Two cops in a prowl car are late night patrolling in the mean streets of (I can't remember the name) an American city. For some reason that escapes me they are accompanied by an emergency room doctor.

They spot some man laying half on the road so they pull up, the doctor has a look and pronounces he's dead but looks very odd with swellings etc on his face and neck.

He calls it in and is told to wait five, then a Senior Medical Officer gets on the radio with instructions.
Him and the cops are astounded because he is ordered to do an autopsy right there on the sidewalk and call his findings in as he discovers them.

That's all I can recall, it's not in Plague and neither is it in Stephen King's The Stand

Note: I have carefully looked through my own checklists above but, like I said, I for years thought this scene was in the Masterton book. I posted this question in Stack Exchange but they closed it as not sci fi enough.
 
Not Midnight, I have that as an ebook and I've just now skimmed through it.
No such scene.
I'll have a look at online summaries for Phantoms this morning :)
 
A dim memory says to me it could be 'Plague from Space' by Harry Harrison, though it's decades since I last read it
 
Not 'plague from space'
Cheers for the suggestion, I downloaded it and I've had a look through, deffo not the scene I remember
 
Right, a thought occurred to me, so I went (tut tut) to various pirate sites and ended up with 2 further copies (now deleted) of Plague by Graham Masterson, so including my old copy I had 3 different editions.

No joy, the scene isn't in any of them - I'd just wondered if an over zealous editor had decided at some point to trim down the story a little.

Obviously now it never was Plague, the search continues
 
I've only ever read one book about a plague and that's The White Plague and I know that isn't what you're looking for. I can only suggest checking out the books of Robin Cook. He's written a few books about viruses and plagues.
 
Danny McG said:
That's all I can recall, it's not in Plague and neither is it in Stephen King's The Stand
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Not the Stand but there was a King novella that focused on a different group of people who had Captain Trips called Night Surf ... might be a possibility.
 
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