World health organization (WHO) has claimed that 15 out of 18 countries to which the bird flu virus H2N2 was sent have been able to destroy the virus panels they received earlier. In a dramatic announcement on April 12, WHO alerted that influenza A/H2N2-containing testing kits were distributed by mistake to 3747 laboratories in 18 countries worldwide. The health officials in Canada and the U.S. first detected the faulty distribution. According to the WHO statement, 77 % of the labs have so far reportedly destroyed almost 90% of the virus in nearly 5000 H2N2-conataining testing panels or testing kits. Ten countries or regions that have reportedly wiped out the H2N2 virus are Hong Kong, Belgium, Singapore, Canada, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, South Korea and Taiwan. Five countries that are in the process of destroying the virus are USA, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Israel and Chile. The H2N2 bird flu virus is a variety of "Asian Flu" that once wrecked havoc by killing between 1 million and 4 million people worldwide in 1957. But, WHO is still worrying about the fact that the update on two shipments sent to Mexico and Lebanon is still not available. WHO officials suspect that either these two shipments have never reached the laboratories in those two countries or they have gone missing.