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The Extant 1918 Flu in the Arctic Circle
Sophia Coontz went to visit the cemetery where scientists had exhumed bodies of seven miners who died of the flu. She wandered the mountainside until she found the graves, seven white crosses almost invisible against the snow. At the time, she was looking for traces of the past. Little did she know, she was getting a glimpse of the future.