CDC yearly lab work on flu viruses

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.). Office of the Associate Director for Communication. Digital Media Branch. Division of Public Affairs.
• Description:
  1,000,000: More than 1 million patient specimens are tested in clinical labs participating in CDC domestic disease surveillance.*
  
  90,000: About 90,000 specimens are tested in 93 state/local public health labs.
  
  6,000: CDC conducts full genetic sequencing on about 6,000 flu viruses each year.
  
  2,000: CDC tests about 2,000 flu viruses to determine their immune properties.
  
  50: CDC prepares as many as 50 viruses for possible use in vaccine production.
  
  *2016-2017 influenza data as reported by CDC’s Influenza Division, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD)
  
  
• Subjects:
  Influenza, Human/diagnosis Influenza A Virus/isolation & Purification
• Document Type:
  Poster
• Genre:
  Infographic
• Pages in Document:
  1 infographic
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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  urn:sha256:daf45ba28524cc15f2739395c7d4bafe3a15e3e93c987f9b4f7a2611a54f8533
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