Location of Flu Strain Samples Still Unknown
From Times Wire Reports
Shipments of a killer influenza virus sent to Mexico and Lebanon remain unaccounted for, but the World Health Organization said 15 other countries were expected to have destroyed their samples by today.
The specimens were sent out by mistake, and the labs in Lebanon and Mexico never got them, even though they were on the distribution list, said Klaus Stohr of the WHO.
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