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...then the CDC's Fukuda was already in the air, aware only of the initial two cases--not Lim's most recent discoveries. That weekend Lim's daughter complained of a sore throat. Instantly the dispassionate virologist became a frightened mother. She barred her daughter from all sports and canceled her piano lessons...
...Lim knew that she had another specimen in her lab, taken from a 13-year-old girl admitted to Prince of Wales Hospital so sick that she had been placed on a respirator. The hospital had identified the underlying virus as Influenza A but wanted Lim to determine the subtype. Lim asked her lab technicians to come in early the next morning, Saturday, Dec. 6, to test specimens from the two patients. Both again reacted to the H5 reagents...
...Lim was intrigued but not terribly concerned. While she did not often receive flu viruses that resisted identification, it did happen. She retested the virus and again got no reaction. A month later, she forwarded samples to the 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...
...Lim 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...
...Queen Elizabeth Hospital sent Lim a specimen from a 54-year-old male who had developed a fever and a cough and soon had to be admitted, apparently suffering from pneumonia. Four days later, Lim's lab succeeded in growing a virus extracted from his specimens. The next day, the patient died. Lim tested the virus with her H5 reagents. Again, a positive...