[null and void]

And, what is the purpose to exhume plague victims and reconstruct the bacteria?

The stated purpose is to better understand what makes a pandemic bacteria and better design vaccines and antibiotics against it.

[SisterK]

Ooops. Wrong thread. I thought I was on a conspiracy thread.
The thought of Guam bobbing up and down in the ocean got me a little side tracked.

[tet68]

The stated purpose is to better understand what makes a pandemic bacteria and better design vaccines and antibiotics against it.

That may be the stated purpose of some, I’m sure others
are trying to better understand what makes a pandemic
bacteria and how to design a better one.

One of these days, it’s going to get away from them
and then we’ll find out what the dark ages were really
like.