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ATLANTA (AP) - U.S. health officials say they have worked out a "lapse in communications" that was delaying China from shipping bird flu virus samples to the United States.
This week, a Chinese Agriculture Ministry official acknowledged delays in shipping requested samples of bird flu virus to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The delays were attributable to the CDC, which had not ironed out import procedures, the official said.
Sharing of virus information and samples has been a touchy subject for China, which came under criticism for being slow and reluctant to release data on a 2002-2003 outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome.
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