If the Swedish could have survived just because they were Swedish, we would never have had lawsuit concerning the opening of that can now, do we?
That was a German lawsuit though, if you are talking about the one where an evicted tenant tried (and failed) to sue the landlord for evicting them for opening a can in the stairwell.
Not that they'd have any better luck in Sweden, even the blessings of the Norse gods struggle against the raw power of that bioweapon.