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Biotech / Medical : Will there be an Influenza Pandemic in the winter 1998-99?

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To: Henry Volquardsen who wrote (5)	8/26/1998 12:23:00 PM
From: Mike McFarland	Read Replies (1) of 19

Thanks Alex, Where'd and Henry...here are a couple articles: CDC warns tourists of Alaska flu outbreak dailynews.yahoo.com "NEW YORK, Aug 21 (Reuters) -- An outbreak of influenza A among visitors to Alaska and the Yukon Territory has sickened more than 1,600 people and caused 47 cases of pneumonia and one pneumonia-related death, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia." (snip) ''It's not one of the extremely unusual or variant strains seen in Hong Kong,'' Cetron emphasized. Friday August 21 4:51 PM EDT Scientists prepare dig for frozen flu virus dailynews.yahoo.com By Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - Scientists erected a tent in an Arctic graveyard Friday, the day before starting to exhume the frozen corpses of six Norwegian victims of a 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 20 million people. (snip) Alister Doyle wrote a subsequent article which was in my evening paper yesterday: "Setback in search for 1918 flu virus" in which it was revelaed that the coffins were so shallow that the soft tissues were gone...just bones. "Bergan said there was still hope that the three coffins might have been laid on top of the original 1918 grave..." If I find it online I'll provide the link.

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