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From: jack@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Jack Campin)
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Subject: Another virus UL
Message-ID: <1991Jun27.123009.24005@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Jun 91 12:30:09 GMT
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carl@sol1.gps.caltech.edu (Carl J Lydick) writes:
> So far, everybody I know who's read the new edition of _The_Stand_ has come
> down with a severe flu-like illness within a week of buying the book.

Here's another one; I'd be curious to know if it's a one-off or more
generally distributed.  A friend of mine had a temporary job moving law
books from old stacks to a new library building at the University of
Auckland around 1970.  He came down with a vicious case of flu.  He claimed
it had been diagnosed by his doctor as the same strain as the 1918-19
pandemic, and had doubtless been lying dormant in some leather-bound
volume in the interim.

This sounds to me EXTREMELY improbable; virus strain identification is not
a routine test now, let alone twenty years ago, and I wouldn't have thought
the virus had any chance of remaining viable that long in the Auckland
climate.  Comments?  Other sightings?

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