[wintertime]

They mixed samples of the 1918 influenza strain with modern seasonal flu viruses to find the three genes and said their study might help in the development of new flu drugs.
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I hope they are very very very careful when handling these viruses. It would be a catastrophe if the 1918 influenza were to make its way into the general population.

[tanknetter]

I hope they are very very very careful when handling these viruses. It would be a catastrophe if the 1918 influenza were to make its way into the general population.

Can you say "Capt. Tripps" boys and girls? I knew you could.

I never really heard much of this from my own family. The great-great uncle of a friend just "disappeared" during the pandemic and his family has always figured he was a flu casualty. Guy had gone overseas with Pershing and fought through WWI. Last letter his family has from him said he was waiting somewhere in France for his ride home. Never even made it aboard ship and the military didn't have a record on his final disposition ...