Chief medical officer of health Dr. Deena Hinshaw said the H1N2v diagnosis came from routine testing of a sample collected from a sick patient a central Alberta emergency room, adding extra testing was done to see what strain of influenza the person had. She also explained the low risk of human-to-human transmission with this variant of influenza.
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Dr. Deena Hinshaw explains how H1N2v swine flu was detected in a human
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