If you were a youngster in Boerne around 1918, you might have been chanting this little rhyme: “I had a little bird, its name was Enza. I opened the window, and in-flu-enza.” 1918 was a brutal year ...

In the winter of 1918, an illness was spreading in Haskell County, Kansas. The remote farming community in the state's southwestern corner sat roughly 300 miles from anywhere most Americans would ...