“There's no one place a virus goes to die - but that doesn't make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out.”

American magazine editor and author

Jeffrey Kluger is an American magazine editor and author. He is editor at large at Time magazine and has written thirteen books across a range of subjects. His books include works on psychology, medicine, family dynamics, and spaceflight, among them The Narcissist Next Door, Splendid Solution: Jonas Salk and the Conquest of Polio, The Sibling Effect, and Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13. Lost Moon later served as the basis for Ron Howard's film Apollo 13. He has also written two young adult novels and one novel for adults, Holdout.