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SWINE FLU UPDATE FOR CLINICAL LABORATORIES: Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Rapid diagnostic test rRT-PCR Swine Flu Panel cleared by FDA for emergency use

Early today, it was reported that major hospitals in Mexico have fewer numbers of new cases of suspected or confirmed A/H1N1 swine flu. That is considered a favorable trend, even as there are now 92 confirmed cases worldwide, in at least six other countries.

The Associated Press quoted Mexican Minister of Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova, as saying that the number of new cases of confirmed or suspected swine flu at “Mexico’s largest government hospitals” had declined in the past three days, falling from 141 on Saturday to 119 on Sunday and 110 Monday.

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