URMC / Pathology & Laboratory Medicine / Read Our Blog / June 2018 June 2018 Just How Bad was ’17-18 Flu Season? Clinical Labs Provide a Recap It was a record-breaking year for the flu in the Greater Rochester Region. Just ask anyone working in the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at Strong Memorial Hospital (SMH), which saw a 37 percent increase in the number of flu tests performed at SMH between July 2017 and June 2018 over the previous season. Our labs performed 17,862 tests in total. Pathology Research Day 2018 Recap The annual Pathology Research Day event at the University of Rochester Medical Center was held on Monday, June 11, 2018.