US restricts 1918 flu virus samples (Reuters)


<p><a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/health/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20051021/hl_nm/influenza_dc"><img src="http://us.news3.yimg.com/us.i2.yimg.com/p/ap/20051007/capt.wx10910072148.us_bush_bird_flu_wx109.jpg?x=130&y=102&sig=2EZnKRUaDrDE.I7b335U3w--" align="left" height="102" width="130" alt="In this 1918 photograph provided by the National Museum of Heath, influenza victims crowd into an emergency hospital at Camp Funston, a subdivision of Fort Riley in Kansas. Increasing fears of a bird flu pandemic are forcing U.S. officials to face up to problems with the country's troubled flu vaccine industry. President Bush sat down with the chiefs of six vaccine manufacturing companies as well as federal health officials Friday, Oct. 7, 2005, urging them to ramp up production to counter the threat of bird flu. (AP Photo/National Museum of Health, File)" border="0" /></a>Reuters - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention restricted access on Thursday to samples of the
1918 pandemic flu virus taken from the frozen bodies and lung
samples of victims, a standard precaution for such a dangerous
virus.</p><br clear=all>