When Cornelia Dekker, MD, was an intern in 1976, a surprise outbreak of swine flu at Fort Dix, N.J, set health care providers scrambling to immunize Americans against a possible epidemic. Instead of causing widespread disease, the virus disappeared as unexpectedly as it had come, piquing Dekker’s interest in the mysteries of influenza.
After three decades of studying viral infections, Dekker, now professor of pediatrics in infectious disease at Stanford, again finds herself trying to understand swine flu. This time, unlike 1976, the flu’s spread has reached pandemic levels. Yet its mysteries haven’t lessened.
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