Eh?!! BBC Virus story

[Oggydoggy100]

A bigger Viral threat especially here in the UK is the possible spread of Small Pox into an unprotected population. Anyone born after 1979 will not have been immunized against this virus-Variola major.
There are thought to be old Victorian Burial Crypts that contain the remains of numerous Small Pox victims. Given the fact that viable variola virus has been recovered from scabs up to 13 years after collection, it is conceivable that cadavers preserved in permafrost or dry crypts-Victorian practice of using hermetic sealed lead coffins-could release the virus.

I have worked in two London Crypts in which several cadvers that had Small Pox Scabs were found. Luck had it that the CDC in Atlanta determined that the virus was not viable.
Link below maybe of interest.
http://www.yclf.org.uk/download.php?docI...nline=true