» spanish flu http://new.kynantait.com Sat, 22 Jan 2011 03:00:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.2 http://new.kynantait.com/?p=9 http://new.kynantait.com/?p=9#comments Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:17:41 +0000 kynantait http://www.kynantait.com/blog/?p=9 “The body of an aristocrat who died in 1919 has been exhumed in a bid to help prevent a flu pandemic. He was buried in a lead coffin, which scientists hope will have preserved the virus.”

of the 50 million dead from spanish flu in 1918-1920, how on earth were scientists able to find the one man buried in a lead-lined coffin?
his tissue is said to be the most well preserved extant sample of spanish flu in existence.

full story here.

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