deadly_flu_virus_samples_missing ... a_point_in_time: 4152005 ... 050417 ... U.S. Sends Deadly Flu Virus 'in Error' 050417 ... WHO Vials of deadly flu virus still missing, says 4162005 050417 ... WHO Vials of deadly flu virus still missing, says 4162005 050417 ... H2N2 The virus - technically known as - was classified as Biological Safety... 050417 ... . Hi, my name is the Culture of Fear, Paranoia and Suspicion. 050417 ... 1957 The samples of virus H2N2, which caused 4 million deaths in the flu_pandemic... 050417 ... U.S. ...were sent to more than 3,700 laboratories by a leading American medical institution several months ago. 050417 ... H3N2 The H2N2 virus identified was found to be similar to H2N2 viruses that circulated in humans in 1957-58 at the beginning of the so-called Asian influenza pandemic. The H2N2 virus which circulated at this time was fully transmissible among humans. It continued to circulate in humans and cause annual epidemics until 1968, when it vanished after the emergence of influenza A/ viruses that caused the next pandemic. Therefore, persons born after 1968 are expected to have no or only limited immunity to H2N2. H2N2 virus is not contained in current trivalent influenza vaccines. 050417 ... . http://www.ashp.org/news/ShowArticle.cfm?id=10535 H5N1 is considered a strong candidate for causing the next influenza pandemic, but it is not the only threat. WHO announced yesterday that a live H2N2 influenza subtype that has not circulated globally since the 1960s was inadvertently sent to more than 3700 laboratories in 18 countries as part of a test kit used in laboratory certification. The strain in question is similar to the influenza virus that touched off the Asian influenza pandemic of 1957–58. 050417 what's it to you? who go blather from