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World Service,1 min

Director of the CDC Tom Frieden on stopping the H7N9 virus in its tracks. Photo © by aspeninstitute-internal.

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Influenza is one of the most feared infectious diseases around the world. Tom Frieden explains how the US and China now collaborate, using cutting edge genomic sequencing techniques, to prevent the global spread of new flu strains.

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