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"Special importance is attached to reassortments between bird- and human-
adapted strains most likely to occur in habitats with close contact between
birds, e.g., ducks, humans, and swine (as a mixing reservoir; ref. 1). For
these reasons, high urgency attaches to efforts to resurrect genetic
information about the singularities of H1N1–1918. The intact virus is
nowhere to be found, but genomic fragments can still be detected sensitively
and diagnosed. Exemplifying the latest technical advances in the use of DNA
amplification, reverse-transcriptase–PCR (RT-PCR), Jeffery Taubenberger and
his associates at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology initiated the tour
de force of recovering sequences of flu from paraffin-embedded pathological
specimens preserved since 1918 in the AFIP collections (2). These sources
then were augmented by samples from frozen remains of an Inuit woman who
succumbed to the flu in 1918 and was buried in permafrost at Brevig Mission
on the Seward Peninsula of Alaska's western coast, not far from the Bering
Strait."