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The Virus Maker 　　Virologist Chen Hualan is not exactly an interviewer’s dream. Reticent and living in relative seclusion， Chen rose to fame after being named in prominent UK science journal Nature’s 2013 list of the year’s most important people. 　　The magazine described Chen as a “front-line flu sleuth” for aiding China in quelling an outbreak of H7N9， a strain of avian flu that spread in China in early 2013， claiming many lives. As director of China’s National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory at the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute， the only authorized institution in evaluating the