July 2010
The State Hygienic Laboratory began testing more than 1,200 samples of seasonal influenza from Bangladesh in July as part of a study sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Association of Public Health Laboratories. One of four state public health laboratories in the nation to take part in the study, the Hygienic Laboratory is tracking the difference in virus shedding between treated and untreated patients, and household transmission of influenza.