Reply #40: "Labs scramble to purge virus" [View All]

[The Kicker]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/04/13/flu.recall/

Labs scramble to purge virus


On September 10, the College of American Pathologists sent samples of the virus that caused the "Asian flu" pandemic of 1957 to laboratories in 18 countries, including the United States and Canada.


…The samples, PART OF A PACKAGE OF PATHOGENS sent to laboratories to test their ability to identify them, were last seen in nature in the United States in 1968, Gerberding said. Anyone born since then would presumably have no immunity to the virus, she said.


I wonder if there is something relevant to the current situation in this article. ( The bolded letters are not bolded in the article.) WHO knows?