Wednesday, April 13, 2005
BBC NEWS | Americas | Labs race to destroy deadly virus
BBC NEWS | Americas | Labs race to destroy deadly virus: "Labs race to destroy deadly virus
Medical student Michelle Levender receives an experimental vaccine against avian flu
Current vaccines do not guard against the 50-year-old flu strain
Health experts have begun to destroy samples of a potentially lethal flu strain sent to laboratories around the world by a US testing organisation.
The samples are of Asian flu, which killed between one and four million people in 1957 but disappeared by 1968.
Testing kits containing the virus were sent to more than 3,700 laboratories in 18 countries from Brazil to Lebanon.
The World Health Organization said the virus could 'easily cause an influenza epidemic' if not handled properly."
Medical student Michelle Levender receives an experimental vaccine against avian flu
Current vaccines do not guard against the 50-year-old flu strain
Health experts have begun to destroy samples of a potentially lethal flu strain sent to laboratories around the world by a US testing organisation.
The samples are of Asian flu, which killed between one and four million people in 1957 but disappeared by 1968.
Testing kits containing the virus were sent to more than 3,700 laboratories in 18 countries from Brazil to Lebanon.
The World Health Organization said the virus could 'easily cause an influenza epidemic' if not handled properly."
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