Been on vacation, just catching back up.
Many thanks to you and all the others that are keeping this thread up to date.
China assigning 50,000 "medical" personnel to what seems to be a relatively minor problem with pigs, in a region already closed to outside news because of reports of H5N1, has got to be considered a major "red flag".
And, possible recombination between H5N1 and Ebola???
Until now I would have thought recombination between H5N1 and Ebola was impossible, or at least extraordinarily improbable. Furthermore, my impression was that the two diseases are not normally present in the same geographic location. So even if recombination of these two very different viruses was "easy" it would not seem likely simply because the same host would be unlikely to be infected with both at the same time. However, Kelly-2000 would seem to be the perfect person to pour cold water on this possibility from a theoretical standpoint, and she has not done so.
All in all, I think I should have stayed on vacation. Or not read this thread when I came back...
Sorry. :-(