Hunting an Invisible Killer
An adventuring Swedish doctor takes on a decades-long medical mystery: What exactly was the 1918 flu? We talk to Dr. Johan Hultin, Eileen Hultin, Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger, Ann Reid, Rita Olanna and Annie Conger.
Here’s a link to our transcript: https://bit.ly/30mnvt6
Check out Radiolab’s episode on the 1918 flu here: https://bit.ly/3n9cxkm
And the book Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused it by Gina Kolata: https://bit.ly/3ipCeJU
This episode was produced by Rose Rimler with help from Wendy Zukerman, along with Michelle Dang, Hannah…
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