One-hundred-two years ago, a strain of influenza virus spread across the globe, eventually reaching Brevig Mission in Alaska. Five days after the flu hit the Seward Peninsula, 72 of the 80 villagers in Brevig Mission were dead. Through a series of events suited to a detective novel, researchers made a connection between Brevig Mission […]
UPDATE: Ground searchers dispatched from Nome were able to locate the two men. THey were sheltered in a shelter cabin on Thursday. The National Guard Blackhawk helicopter rendezvoused to their location and transported them back to Nome. ORIGINAL: Alaska State Troopers report that the search for two Brevig Mission travelers is continuing today after Wednesday’s […]
The revival of the virus responsible for the 1918 Spanish flu, the killer of millions of people, was the end of a long journey for Johan Hultin. Hultin, 90, twice retrieved samples of the virus from the lungs of flu victims preserved by permafrost in an Alaska village. Molecular pathologists used the latter of those […]
Human remains were found in Brevig Mission about three miles west of town on the shoreline on Wednesday. Troopers were immediately notified of the find. Troopers determined tentatively that the remains were that of Clarence Olanna who went missing earlier this month. Aolanna disappeared on the fifteenth of this month and only the clothes that […]