For Dekker, it's always flu season
Monday, January 25, 2010 - 16:39
in Health & Medicine
(PhysOrg.com) -- When Cornelia Dekker, MD, was an intern in 1976, a surprise outbreak of swine flu at Fort Dix, N.J, set health care providers scrambling to immunize Americans against a possible epidemic. Instead of causing widespread disease, the virus disappeared as unexpectedly as it had come, piquing Dekker`s interest in the mysteries of influenza.