FitnessDecember 18, 2018
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic: How Far Have We Come?
We now know the cause of flu—but the universal vaccine and the antiviral drugs we need to stop it still elude us
Stories by Jeremy Brown
Jeremy Brown, MD, is the author of Influenza: The Hundred-Year Hunt to Cure the Deadliest Disease in History, published in December, 2018 by Simon and Schuster. He is an emergency physician and was the research director in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He is now director of the Office of Emergency Care Research at the National Institutes of Health. The views expressed are his own and do not necessarily represent those of the National Institutes of Health or the federal government.