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To become a pandemic, the H5N1 bird flu virus would need to spread from person to person.
The best way to keep tabs on that possibility is by testing people.
Red tape, billing issues, and minimal investment are barriers to ramping up widespread availability of testing.
The FDA has yet to allow companies to run their influenza A tests using eye swabs, although the CDC and public health labs are permitted to do so.
The bird flu virus was detected only in an eye swab from one farmworker infected this year .
Overcoming barriers is essential, Chu said, to ramp up influenza A testing in regions with livestock.
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