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…
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