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We know China didn't have the virus till their peackeeping mission in Angola in '04, as was discussed on a previous thread.

Transmission of these exotic diseases seems to be pigs, birds, mosquitoes. Some are human to human transmission...Air-born???

An eight year old girl dies in Indonesia of Avian flu today. Here's the story.

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My big question is how about transmission in packaging materials or general merchandise? Shipping containers? Tourists (asymptomatic)? Some of these new Ebola strains have incubation times of over 120 days. Hard to trace infection vectors with incubation times of 4 months.