Villager’s remains lead to 1918 flu breakthrough

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Nov 21, 2014   Bering Straits, Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, Rural, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

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 […]