In case you missed it, this article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer is pretty neat:

University of Washington scientists plan to infect monkeys with a killer flu virus grown from tissue exhumed from victims of the 1918 epidemic. They hope the insight they gain will unravel the mystery of why tens of millions of people worldwide died from the virulent flu strain and lead to development of better vaccines and drugs that may save lives in the future. [p-i]

Lots of cool science details, as well as the somewhat strange revelation that there might soon be a Level 3 lab in a nondescript primate research building in Belltown.
With the viruses from dead bodies and urban monkeys, it sounds kind of like a setup for a 28 Days Later sequel.