Diane’s farewell message
After 52 years at WAMU, Diane Rehm says goodbye.
Gina Kolata of the New York Times discusses the influenza epidemic of 1918, which killed as many as 40 million people around the world. Today, scientists are working with long-preserved tissue samples of flu victims to learn why that strain of this common virus was so deadly. Her new book is called "Flu" (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
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- Gina Kolata Author and "New York Times" science writer
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