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...outbreak become clear. Taken together, these threads weave a story that begins 80 years ago and winds forward through venues as varied as a high-security lab in Ames, Iowa, the ancient tissue collections of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington and a frozen mass grave on Alaska's Seward Peninsula...
...ALASKA'S "LUCY...
...Hultin took part in an expedition to Alaska to try to extract live virus from long-frozen victims of the 1918 flu in what is now Brevig Mission, Alaska. Now he was ready to try again. He knew from hard experience that no live virus had survived under the permafrost. But Taubenberger's paper convinced him that technology had advanced to the point where even a dead virus could be of immense value. The moment he saw the Science paper, he told himself, "There. This...
Hultin asked Taubenberger whether he would accept and analyze samples of lung tissue from frozen graves, if he, Hultin, went to Alaska to get them. "When are you planning to leave?" Taubenberger asked. He knew firsthand that such ventures take a lot of advance planning. "I can't go this week," Hultin told him. "But I can go next week." Taubenberger got really quiet. "I don't know what was going through his mind," Hultin says, chuckling. "He probably thought I was some kind...
Part of legislation drafted by Representative Don Young of Alaska, the bill establishes periodic referenda on the island's status until it is settled...