Swine Flu Rode to Greensboro Aboard Circus Train in 1918

As an young reporting intern in 1976, shortly after a mysterious strain of swine flu turned up at Fort Dix in New Jersey, killing an Army private and making other soldiers severely ill, I wrote a piece for the Greensboro Record about the pandemic of 1918.

It hitched a ride to Greensboro with a traveling circus and didn’t leave until it had taken the liv…