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Human tissue preserved since World War I yields new clues about 1918 pandemic
Kai KupferschmidtOn 27 June 1918, two young German soldiers—one age 18, the other 17—died in Berlin from a new influenza strain that had emerged earlier that year. Their lungs ended up in the collection of the Berlin Museum of Medical History, where they rested, fixed in formalin, for 100 years.