Searching for Lethal Influenza Strains

1gor writes "Scientists want to exhume the body of the victim of the world's most lethal influenza pandemic between 1918 and 1919 to examine the structure of the virus, reports Bloomberg.com. In an airtight coffin they expect to find well-preserved virus known for its unique ability to kill healthy young people. The strain's attack and mortality rates were highest among people aged between 20 years and 50 years. Are you scared already?"

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influenza doesn't scare me...yet

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Scientists scare me sometimes though.

"looky here let's open up this box where a deadly virus might be trapped floating about and study it"! We'll just hope it doesn't get out.

Reminds me of,
"I'm not real sure if this atmoic detonation will rip the atmosphere off the earth in a chain reaction, well here goes....*boom*".
When you say it like that it almost sounds like a farside cartoon, but it's pretty close to what happened.

I think if anything scared me, it is the fact that scientists will do anything to figure things out regardless of how potentially dangerous it is.

The mentality of, "if it can be calculated then it should be" really pisses me off.