Kenny rogers and the first edition
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg15020331-200-spanish-flus-frozen-secrets/
THE frozen remains of seven coal miners may hold the secrets of a disease that wiped out 20 million people just after the First World War. Researchers in Canada and the US are planning to exhume bodies buried in permafrost on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, to study the pathogen that caused “Spanish flu”. They hope their findings will help scientists prepare for the disease should it ever return.
…..more at article about helping… Nothing about weaponizing…. So we should be safe.