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How the Spanish Flu Worked

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Can We Survive the Spanish Flue Again?

The spanish flue had gone totally extinct. It killed off everybody so fast that it couldn't spread any longer. A microbiologist dug up the corpse of a native american woman, an upia woman, who had died and had been buried in a massed grave from the spSpanish flue. He took samples of her lung tissue and took it back to another micro biologist,. whose name i cannot remember, who basically synthesized the genome of it. And yes, the sp Spanish flue is still around because humans brought it back to life. But for my money, it was a terrible achievement. I really don't think we should have taken that extra step."

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