How historical disease detectives are solving the mysteries of the World War I flu epidemic
The centennial of the 1918 pandemic is a good time to take stock of how far the world has come since this historic health disaster – and to face the sobering fact that several key mysteries have yet to be resolved.
By Gerardo Chowell, Georgia State University; Cecile Viboud, National Institutes of Health, and Lone Simonsen, Roskilde University