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MORE THAN three weeks have passed since a Canadian laboratory discovered that it unknowingly possessed a sample of a dangerous strain of flu virus, one that caused an epidemic in 1957. The lab informed the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which subsequently discovered that the Canadian lab was one of 6,000 labs around the world that had received the same strain of virus. Ironically, the virus had been sent out as part of a "quality assurance" testing exercise organized by the College of American Pathologists and other organizations. To maintain their accreditation, diagnostic labs have to periodically prove that they can identify particular viruses. Normally, the viruses used in these routine procedures are relatively benign, but in this case, Meridian Bioscience Inc., whose lab contracted to produce the testing panels, broke with accepted practice and sent out a virus against which very few people would have immunity if it escaped. In the News
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