Imagine if this had happened to whatever refrigerator that contained the blood samples that let researchers trace HIV back to Congo in the late ‘50s. What an in

Imagine if this had happened to whatever refrigerator that contained the blood samples that let researchers trace HIV back to Congo in the late ‘50s. What an incalculable loss. Who knows what else has been lost due to similar accidents and snafus. (Btw - does anyone know a link to that paper that identified the earliest cultures of HIV? I’d love to read about the fieldwork that led to the discovery of those ancient samples that had somehow remained viable in a, uh, less than stable developing-at-best county.)