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Published online 19 June 2009 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2009.583
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The virus spy
Yan Li talks about spotting the novel swine flu virus at Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory.
On 17 April, Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was called in to help diagnose a cluster of cases of serious respiratory illness of unknown cause in Mexico. This was molecular virologist Yan Li's forte; his team was the first to identify and report the SARS coronavirus in Canada during the 2003 outbreak.
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