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On the afternoon of Saturday, October 30th, 1948, a teenage boy wearing an orange and black uniform ran across

his high school's football field. He searched the sky for a pass from his quarterback, but a thick

layer of fog had rolled in that made it impossible to see. As the boy waved his arms, the ball

bounced off his helmet and fell to the ground. But before he could even jog back to his teammates,

the boy heard the school's announcer call his name over the loudspeakers. The announcer sounded

urgent and told the boy to report to the sidelines right now. And when he got there, his coach

told him he had to head home right away. His mother needed him. So the boy just took off his helmet

and ran home through the fog.

When he burst through the door, he saw his father lying on the couch with the doctor standing over him,

and his mother was standing by, weeping. The doctor told the boy that he was very sorry,

but his father had just died. The boy just stood there, stunned.

His father had been fine that morning.

He didn't understand what could have happened.

However, what this boy did not know was that his father was not the first person in town to die that day, and he would not be the last, because this community was in the middle

of a medical disaster that would change

the course of American history.

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