Chimera
The outbreak has spread, tearing apart the foundations of society, as implanted tapeworms have turned their human hosts into a seemingly mindless mob. Sal and her family are trapped between bad and worse, and must find a way to compromise between the two sides of their nature before the battle becomes large enough to destroy humanity, and everything that humanity has built...including the chimera.
Fiction, Genetic engineering, Parasites, Fiction, science fiction, general
Seanan McGuire
See http://seananmcguire.com/bio.php

Seanan McGuire won the John W. Campbell award for the best new writer at the 2010 Hugo Awards.  She uses the pseudonym Mira Grant to write science fiction/horror and the pseudonym A. Deborah Baker to write the "Up-and-Under" children's portal fantasy series.