BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua)
-- Testing reagents for the H7N9 avian
influenza virus have been distributed
to all flu monitoring sites across
the country, China's center for
disease control said on
Wednesday.
A total of 160,000
Real-time PCR reagents have been
delivered to make all areas capable
of detecting human infections with H7N9,
according to the Chinese Center for
Disease Control and
Prevention.
The center has also
provided major infectious disease hospitals
and research agencies with testing
materials and methods for the newly
discovered type of bird flu, it
said.
The deadly bird flu
has so far killed nine of the
33 people confirmed as infected with H7N9
in China.
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