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Purplish samples of lung tissue from 1918 tell a story of disease and death. Scientists at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Rockville, Maryland, hope to learn more about deadly flu viruses by reconstructing the gene sequence of the Spanish flu virus. Photograph by Karen Kasmauski