[conspire] Virus "survival" on hard surfaces / extreme environments

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Texx (texxgadget at gmail.com):

> Isnt that how we finally GOT a sample of the 1918 flu?  Off Permafrost
> corpses?

Not exactly.

_One_ of the samples of victims' lung tissue came from a woman buried at
her isolated village in Alaska.  Another came from an Army private who 
died in Camp Jackson, SC, and a third came from an Army private who died
at Camp Upton, NY.  All of these tissue samples provided only viral
fragments, which then needed to be pieced back together by Dr. Jeffrey
K. Taubenberger of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology and
colleagues over the period 1999-2005:

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/16/us/scientists-uncover-clues-to-flu-epidemic-of-1918.html
https://www.cdc.gov/media/pressrel/r051005.htm


Texx, next time, try looking it up.