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Flu can bide time in icy limbo before re-emerging, BGSU biologist states
11-27-2006 · EurekAlert!It sounds like the stuff of a campy '50s horror movie ("It Came from the Ice!"), but a Bowling Green State University biologist believes it's a very real possibility.
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