[white_wolf]

North Korea is next door to China. Haven't they threatened something about unleashing a "fire that consumes the earth?" Maybe they have a vaccine...

Hope the health authorities get this under control quick. If they don't, this story displaces Iraq by next weekend.

[bonesmccoy]

In another thread, I was posting information on Korean Hemorrhagic Virus, or Hantaan Virus/Hantavirus. This virus appears to really be a ubiquitous virus (often transmitted to humans from rat urine/dung which is aerosolized and breathed by troops in the fields).

Hantaan Virus is similar to the "four-corners" disease.

That disease killed a number of people during an outbreak in the late 1990's.