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The Mexican government asked the CDC to help facilitate laboratory testing of the virus during a conference call with Canada and the United States, he said.

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The Health Protection Agency (HPA) said laboratory reports of the virus had recently risen from 48 in week 43 of 2012 to 114 reports by week 45.

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They say their evidence, published in the journal Retrovirology, shows the virus found in patient samples arose from laboratory contamination.

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There have been 11 laboratory-confirmed cases of the H7N9 virus, a form of avian flu which had not been seen before in humans.

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Once a patient's cancer cells are isolated in the laboratory, the gene responsible for producing the antibody is extracted and added to the "tobacco mosaic virus".

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After that, the study subjects were quarantined for six days and given cold-virus-containing nose drops at a dose about 125 times the amount that it takes to infect cells in a laboratory.

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