Word: jong
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and to England's Mill Hill, two laboratories in the top tier of a quiet but elaborate global surveillance network that tracks changes in the world's flu viruses. Almost as an afterthought, Lim sent a sample to Jan De Jong, a virologist at the Dutch National Institute of Health and the Environment who liked to collect unusual strains of influenza. She had never met De Jong, but over the years they had developed a rapport...
...more than a month, she heard nothing. Then suddenly, on Friday, Aug. 8, De Jong called. He was coming to Hong Kong. He had booked a flight that day. He would arrive Sunday. It seemed, at first, just a friendly visit--a chance, at last, to meet face to face...
...picked him up at the Kowloon Ramada on Monday morning. As she drove back to her laboratory, high in Hong Kong's craggy western hills, De Jong turned to her and asked mildly, "Do you have any idea what virus you sent...
...Wilina Lim drove back to her laboratory with Jan De Jong, the Dutch researcher, she considered his question about the nature of the virus she had sent him. Clearly he already knew what it was. She thought a moment, then guessed the virus was probably an H3, common in humans, that had changed sufficiently to evade detection...
...government wants to buy the gold itself and hold onto it. The country "can sell later, when the prices are higher," Yoon Jong-hwa, an economic secretary, said Wednesday...