] The largest of those groups, the College of American
] Pathologists, said it had sent 3,747 kits to various labs
] starting last year and ending in February.
]
] Dr. Jared Schwartz, an official with the pathology
] college, said Meridian was told to pick an influenza
] sample and chose from its stockpile the deadly 1957
] strain, which it had received from a "germ library" in
] 2000.