Did Dean Koontz predict the Wuhan coronavirus?

Courtesy of the Daily Grail - here's an article from the South China Morning Post drawing attention to a Dean Koontz novel, "The Eyes of Darkness," published in 1981, which "features a Chinese military lab in Wuhan that creates a virus as a bioweapon; civilians soon become sick after accidentally contracting it," and asks how it is that some fiction appears to prophesy future events:
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-cult...ean-koontz

It sounds like another case for Eric Wargo, but the article suggests it's just a coincidence, as although the Wuhan Institute of Virology - implicated in some conspiracy theories about the coronavirus - wasn't founded until 2017, "Wuhan has historically been the site of numerous scientific research facilities, including ones dealing with microbiology and virology."

Judging by the preview of the novel at Google Books, it really does refer to Wuhan as the source of the virus. But Wuhan doesn't feature prominently, being mentioned on only four pages.

Interestingly, an article by Paul Seaburn at Mysterious Universe points out that the original version of the book (published under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols) places the virus's origin in Gorki (Russia) rather than Wuhan (China). Presumably the text was later revised to reflect the change of the political situation after the demise of the Soviet Union:
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/02/d...or-did-he/