It all started in China

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   It all started in China, says study (English)

NEW DELHI, FEB 22:  Do you know from where the deadly bird flu virus flew in? The journal New Scientist has revealed that the dangerous H5N1 virus is of Chinese origin. 

The H5N1 virus has been circulating continuously in south-east China for a decade. Genetic analysis by scientists has shown that the virus in poultry infected wild birds which carried it from south-east China to Turkey. 
Samples from 13,000 migratory birds and 50,000 market poultry in south-east China were collected during the period from January 2004 to June 2005 and analysed by researchers. This was the time when Chinese government banned independent sampling. The H5N1 virus was found in about 2% of apparently healthy ducks and geese and some chickens. The Chinese authorities have, however, denied these reports, although Yi Guan and others at Shantou University and scientists in Xiamen and Hong Kong suggested to eliminate bird flu in the region. 

The genetic makeup of the virus slightly differed in Guangdong, Hunan and Yunnan provinces. But all these viruses descended from a 1996 Guangdong virus. 
According to the co-author of the paper, Robert Webster of St Jude�s Children�s Research Hospital in Memphis in US, the virus originated from these provinces and circulated in the region long enough to develop divergent strains. 
The virus having new strains flew to neighbouring Vietnam and Thailand. Genes from Vietnamese viruses reveal its origin from Guangxi and Guangdong virus. 
The virus found in Indonesia has its own related clusters.
 http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id =118485

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	It all started in China, says study (English) NEW DELHI, FEB 22: Do you know from where the deadly bird flu virus flew in? The journal New Scientist has revealed that the dangerous H5N1 virus is of Chinese origin. The H5N1 virus has been circulating continuously in south-east China for a decade. Genetic analysis by scientists has shown that the virus in poultry infected wild birds which carried it from south-east China to Turkey. Samples from 13,000 migratory birds and 50,000 market poultry in south-east China were collected during the period from January 2004 to June 2005 and analysed by researchers. This was the time when Chinese government banned independent sampling. The H5N1 virus was found in about 2% of apparently healthy ducks and geese and some chickens. The Chinese authorities have, however, denied these reports, although Yi Guan and others at Shantou University and scientists in Xiamen and Hong Kong suggested to eliminate bird flu in the region. The genetic makeup of the virus slightly differed in Guangdong, Hunan and Yunnan provinces. But all these viruses descended from a 1996 Guangdong virus. According to the co-author of the paper, Robert Webster of St Jude�s Children�s Research Hospital in Memphis in US, the virus originated from these provinces and circulated in the region long enough to develop divergent strains. The virus having new strains flew to neighbouring Vietnam and Thailand. Genes from Vietnamese viruses reveal its origin from Guangxi and Guangdong virus. The virus found in Indonesia has its own related clusters. http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id =118485 Edited by Corn
	Speculation is the only tool we have with a threat that can circle the globe in 30 days. Test results&news is slow.Factor in human conditions,politics, money&bingo!The truth!Facts come after the fact.

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	Read the recombinomics site. Mentions India as being more likely
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