Great Influenza Dad and on the pages of

and on the pages of The New Yorker

but they seem to attract them anyway

and keeping his somewhat-cool reputation from sinking

With Layard

inventor of one of the first successful polio vaccines

Great Influenza Dad and on the pages ofAt the height of WWI, history's most lethal influenza virus erupted in an army camp in Kansas, moved east with American troops, then exploded, killing as many as 100 million people worldwide. It killed more people in twenty four months than AIDS killed in twenty four years, more in a year than the Black Death killed in a century. But this was not the Middle Ages, and 1918 marked the first collision of science and epidemic disease. Magisterial in its