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H5N1 and this strain of Ebola have a noticeable discontinuity in their sequencing, according to the source article. That says to me "splicing".

It's been proven to be spliced?

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From the article:

"There are 2 reasons for doing so. First, to reduce panic among the people should it ever leak. And second, the Ebola virus has evolved in China. Re-combination has been detected. Most prominently at the portion which determines its effect on humans (very technical description, I can't describe it. sorry.). Also, abrupt breaks in the sequencing were detected,