There's an article in the paper about how they've reconstructed the 1918 flu virus. Talk about your kick-ass pandemic -- and it went after the young and healthy. Well, at least I'll be spared if that bug kicks up again.

It's cool how they did it. Apparently the Army has a pathology warehouse down in the grossatorium at Walter Reed. They obtained tissue samples two soldiers who died of the flu, and then dug up another lady who'd been buried in the Alaskan permafrost.

And it seems that there are indeed similarities between this bug and the avian flu strains that are popping up in Asia. Sleep well!