For a small Midwestern city with a clean, wholesome reputation, Springfield’s 1998 outbreak of leptospirosis seems nothing short of bizarre. It was by far the largest epidemic of that illness in United States history. Five years later no one knows what caused such an unusual disease to visit here on such a large scale. What’s […]
Karen Fitzgerald
Karen Fitzgerald lives in Pleasant Plains. She has a master’s degree in science and environmental reporting from New York University and is the author of several children’s chemistry books. She’s currently working on a novel about Isaac Newton.
