The Best-Dos Santos Public Health Laboratory is now a World Health Organisation National Influenza Centre.
The local laboratory joins the likes of the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) and the Virology Lab at the University of the West Indies.
Andrew Lowe has more on that story.
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