[conspire] GOT a sample of the 1918 flu? Off Permafrost corpses? Not exactly. (documentary ...)

[Michael Paoli]

Saw good documentary on this several weeks or more ago.
Wasn't able to easily find it again (at least not where I'd
seen it before), did finally track it down in some spots.
We Heard the Bells The Influenza of 1918
Anyway, seem to have located copies of it here:
~56:49
https://youtu.be/XbEefT_M6xY
https://youtu.be/l0juBE-ra3A

"
To order a DVD of
this program, go to
www.flu.gov/WeHeardtheBells
"
www.flu.gov/WeHeardtheBells just redirects to https://www.cdc.gov/flu/
... and looks like the wayback machine got there too late (Page Not Found).
No longer seems findable on/under flu.gov or cdc.gov.
Closest "official" bit of it I find is just a promo clip:
https://youtu.be/8NRTC1BlHg0

Seems it was published between 2008 and 2010 (found no dates on it
newer than 2008, and earliest I found about it being published/released
is 2010) ... US government publication, so no copyright or copyright date
on the work itself.

In semi-brief, from my lossy compression wetware storage,
I seem to recall they were able to find better and more complete
fragments from remains in/under/around permafrost.  And from that
were eventually able to put together enough to sequence the virus.
But nothing infectious - and wouldn't have been infectious all that
long after buried/deceaesed.  But better fragment samples as other bits
were from preserved tissue and blood samples and the like - only much
smaller remnants of virus left there (think of like a 90+ year old speck
of tissue smear on a microscope slide "preserved" at room temperature all
those years).

> From: "Rick Moen" <rick at linuxmafia.com>
> Subject: Re: [conspire] Virus "survival" on hard surfaces / extreme  
> environments
> Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2020 14:00:13 -0700

> 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.