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...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...
...Lim was startled. "I'm not a vet," she says. "I don't know much about influenza in animals." But she had never heard of H5 infecting humans. For it to do so now was surprising. Even impossible...
...that Shortridge worked with avian viruses. Moreover, this was Hong Kong, where poultry stalls with live chickens could be found in the same neighborhoods as five-star hotels. "I think he came to Hong Kong to have a look-see if it was a sloppy laboratory," says Lim. She knew his concern was justified, but still it offended her. She is known for her buoyancy, but at this moment her expression hardened. "I knew it was not a contaminant," she says, "because I know...
...about H5. Only then, in that phone call, did the human-flu research community at last learn of the earlier outbreak of chicken flu on the three Hong Kong farms; and only then did Webster and Shortridge learn of the first human case--even though Shortridge's laboratory and Lim's are housed in adjacent buildings...
...concedes, however, that he was startled when Osterhaus told him about the three-year-old boy who had died on May 21, the day after Lim received his specimen. Webster also wondered whether the H5 was merely a contaminant. Osterhaus assured him it was not. After the call, Webster taped a note to the wall over his desk: H5 IN A CHILD...