So, the so called swine flu may just be spanish flu? the puerco flu?
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> An interactive article on the current outbreak of H1N1 and the virus'
> impact in 1918:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2008/jan/03/flu
>
> And for the conspiricist minded:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sykes
>
> "Exhumation for biological research
>
> In 2007, nearly 90 years after Sir Mark Sykes died, all the living
> descendants gave their permission to exhume his body for scientific
> investigation headed by virologist, Prof John Oxford. His remains were
> exhumed in mid-September 2008[3]. His remains were of interest because
> he had been buried in a lead-lined coffin, and this was thought likely
> to have preserved Spanish Flu viral particles intact. Any samples
> taken are to be used for research in the quest to develop defences
> against the next flu pandemic, which some scientists[who?] believe is
> likely to flare up at some stage in the future as a mutation of the
> bird flu virus named H5N1. The Spanish Flu virus itself became a human
> infection by a mutation of an avian virus nowadays called H1N1. There
> are only five other extant samples of the Spanish Flu virus. Prof
> Oxford's team were expecting to find a well preserved cadaver.[4]
> However, the lead lined coffin was found to be split because of the
> weight of soil over it, and the cadaver was found to be badly
> decomposed. Nonetheless, samples of lung and brain tissue were taken
> through the split in the coffin, with the coffin remaining in situ in
> the grave during this process.[5]Soon afterwards, the open grave was
> sealed again by refilling it with earth."
>
> You must admit, it would solve the unemployment problem.
>
> Terry
>
>
