LINCOLN, Nebraska, Aug. 4 -- The University of Nebraska posted the following news:

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Huskers build on a century of discovery in the fight against future pandemics

Gladys Henry Dick did not begin her career studying scarlet fever from a distance.

She lived it.

In 1911, while working as a physician at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago, Dick contracted the disease that would become the focus of her scientific career.