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Sir Mark Sykes: Dead aristocrat's hidden flu clue
- Thread starter AlaskaDenise
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Re: BBC: 1918 Exhumation and Sampling to be Aired
Re: BBC: 1918 Exhumation and Sampling to be Aired
Apparently not everyone thinks a pandemic is on the immediate horizon... no hurry necessary.
I think we can expect the same during a pandemic. I read one of our states' pandemic plan and it was very well laid out.
Except one of the most important steps (distribution of drugs, iirc) had to go through 4 levels of government. My thought was everyone would be dead before it was approved.
Re: BBC: 1918 Exhumation and Sampling to be Aired
Apparently not everyone thinks a pandemic is on the immediate horizon... no hurry necessary.
I think we can expect the same during a pandemic. I read one of our states' pandemic plan and it was very well laid out.
Except one of the most important steps (distribution of drugs, iirc) had to go through 4 levels of government. My thought was everyone would be dead before it was approved.
Sally Furniss
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Re: Sir Mark Sykes: Dead aristocrat's hidden flu clue
Exhumation for biological research
In 2007, nearly 90 years after Sir Mark Sykes died, all the living descendants gave their permission to exhume his body for scientific investigation headed by virologist, Prof John Oxford. His remains were exhumed in mid-September 2008<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference">[3]</sup>. His remains were of interest because he had been buried in a lead-lined coffin, and this was thought likely to have preserved Spanish Flu viral particles intact. Any samples taken are to be used for research in the quest to develop defences against the next flu pandemic, which some scientists believe is likely to flare up at some stage in the future as a mutation of the bird flu virus named H5N1. The Spanish Flu virus itself became a human infection by a mutation of an avian virus nowadays called H1N1. There are only five other extant samples of the Spanish Flu virus. Prof Oxford's team were expecting to find a well preserved cadaver.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference">[4]</sup> However, the lead lined coffin was found to be split because of the weight of soil over it, and the cadaver was found to be heavily decomposed. Samples were taken through the split in the coffin with the coffin in the ground.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference">[5]</sup>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sykes
Exhumation for biological research
In 2007, nearly 90 years after Sir Mark Sykes died, all the living descendants gave their permission to exhume his body for scientific investigation headed by virologist, Prof John Oxford. His remains were exhumed in mid-September 2008<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference">[3]</sup>. His remains were of interest because he had been buried in a lead-lined coffin, and this was thought likely to have preserved Spanish Flu viral particles intact. Any samples taken are to be used for research in the quest to develop defences against the next flu pandemic, which some scientists believe is likely to flare up at some stage in the future as a mutation of the bird flu virus named H5N1. The Spanish Flu virus itself became a human infection by a mutation of an avian virus nowadays called H1N1. There are only five other extant samples of the Spanish Flu virus. Prof Oxford's team were expecting to find a well preserved cadaver.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference">[4]</sup> However, the lead lined coffin was found to be split because of the weight of soil over it, and the cadaver was found to be heavily decomposed. Samples were taken through the split in the coffin with the coffin in the ground.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference">[5]</sup>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sykes
Sally Furniss
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Re: Sir Mark Sykes: Dead aristocrat's hidden flu clue
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Sally Furniss
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Re: Sir Mark Sykes: Dead aristocrat's hidden flu clue
No tissue samples were taken of Sir Mark. If they had been they would have probably been preserved in formaldehyde or paraffin wax
gsgs
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Re: Sir Mark Sykes: Dead aristocrat's hidden flu clue
how about unopened canned pork from 1918, from swine-flu pigs
not properly heated
the meat might decompose from bacteria,fungi but would
that process destroy the viruses ?
or canned contaminated water, old wine in bottles
how about unopened canned pork from 1918, from swine-flu pigs
not properly heated
the meat might decompose from bacteria,fungi but would
that process destroy the viruses ?
or canned contaminated water, old wine in bottles
Sally Furniss
Well-known member
Re: Sir Mark Sykes: Dead aristocrat's hidden flu clue
Picture of the radar tests being done
Radar tests on Sir Mark Sykes' grave
http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/yorkslincs/series11/week8_flu.shtml
Picture of the radar tests being done
Radar tests on Sir Mark Sykes' grave
http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/yorkslincs/series11/week8_flu.shtml