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Lab workers getting sick should be a starting point to begin analyzing archived blood samples for instance. Also, you don't usually visit a hospital for seasonal flu. And three people from the same lab at the same time suggests a wider outbreak in the lab. Even if it were the seasonal flu, it would have warranted a wider investigation, given what that lab was working on.

>>corty+(OP)
Plenty of people visit hospitals for seasonal flu, fyi. They shouldn't, but they do.

>>GavinM+v
I think lab workers researching viruses are some of the less likely to do so, unless they're in a really bad state. If they were in a very bad state, it's less likely that it was the seasonal flu.

>>corty+(OP)
In China, people do. In Pakistan, they would get an injection, even if it wasn’t effective.

Medical practices and norms vary widely depending on the culture you live in.

>>corty+(OP)
> you don't usually visit a hospital for seasonal flu

there's numerous posts in previous discussions saying that in China people do, because they don't typically have a GP and so go to the hospital for any acute ailment.