Carl Alfred Lanning Binger, 1889-1976 A few weeks ago, in a lockdown phone call, my ninety-year-old mother Bici reminded me that her father Carl Binger had served as an army doctor in France during World War I, at the peak of the 1918 influenza epidemic. Across the Western Front the flu was killing more soldiersContinue reading “A doctor’s job – Carl Binger and the 1918 influenza pandemic”
