Looking for the Spanish Flu in Norwegian Permafrost

Researchers went looking for a graveyard in the permafrost of a Norwegian territory in the Arctic Circle. They wanted to study victims of the 1918 Spanish flu and they were in a race to identify the cause of the disease. Here's what they found. We also talk about how the current pandemic may increase antibiotic resistance. McKenna's work on disease takes her into the past and also right into the thick of research on Covid-19. Guest: Maryn McKenna, science journalist, author, and Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of Human Health, Emory University