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 HONG KONG (AP) - A top Hong Kong scientist said Thursday a flu outbreak that prompted authorities to keep more than 500,000 primary and kindergarten students home wasn't deadlier than past viruses.
Yuen Kwok-yung and a panel of experts studied two flu patients who died amid the outbreak — a 7-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl — and found that the flu virus hadn't spread beyond their lungs, which suggests the virus isn't exceptionally virulent.
"If it is a more virulent virus, we should be able to find the flu virus in other organs," Yuen told reporters after a four-hour meeting with his colleagues.
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