@Constance: It  could possibly be a side effect of Agent Orange, but not the fault of the chemical itself. The fact that the disease is able to be spread from person to person indicates that it's a virus or infection, since a chemical side effect wouldn't be able to spread in that way. However, Agent Orange COULD have lowered the immune systems of those it affected directly or the affected's offspring , allowing the disease to take hold easier than it might have been. As well, it might (and honestly, about this I'm not sure) have allowed the disease's biological makeup to evolve or mutate from a different, far less lethal strain. All of this is purely hypothetical, of course; I'm not well-versed in biology or war-grade chemicals.

There are many in Vietnam now whose genes are damaged by American Agent Orange defoliant.  The TV showed a few months ago they lie on the floor, both spindly legs twisted to one side, not slightly bowed as is normally the case.  Agent Orange leaves no visible damage to those infected, but their offspring suffer very serious harm with damaged genes. Could this be a case of Agent Orange?  The U.S. normally uses various poisons where ever it goes.  In the Middle East, they have used Depleted Uranium shells, after which, their own soldiers have to walk through the radioactive dust, breathe it in, and get it all over themselves.  Do they care?

A paragraph slipped into the Patriot Act US law extended by the Obama administration does away with the long lasting US Bioweapons Ban/Treaty.

I t's been rumoured now for years that the US Military has been brewing up some very large vats of Bioweapons in near deserted old US Military Bases in scattered locations.

Th ere's also been some observers linking the US Military and a founder linked to 'cough' Microsoft creating a utterly evil mosquito designed to infect a nation with Bioweaponized dengue fever out of a secret base of operations in Florida. Some US Citizens in that immediate area in Florida suddenly came down with dengue fever shortly after these mosquito bioweapons were allegedly being tested. Some sudden cases of dengue fever have now turned up in the Middle East and inside Pakistan, India appear to give credence that the US Military is now actively employing Bioweapons in select test cases.

Allege dly Iran's engineers found a Bioweapon aerosol dispenser built into the top secret CIA 'beast' stealth drone which Iran captured inside Iran. If that is accurate, it would be child's play for Iran's scientists to determine any micro-organism the CIA had at any time placed in that dispenser and sprayed on a nations population.

G iven the level of evil pouring out from Zionist led Apartheid Israels leaders via their puppets in the US Pentagon, world's citizens must carefully look to entirely discount if Israel/CIA are directly involved in such sudden mystery virus outbreaks around the world and if they are unable to, then to preclude it is likely Israel/CIA were involved in some fashion.

Ffs, people commenting here are no better than those commenting on cnn and other sites. New disease s pop up every now and then, it doesn't take someone to make them. And if this was a bio weapon it would have been a very bad one^^ No one are capable of making a race specific bio weapon. And even if these diseases are bio weapons, they do affect every race on earth.  They are however more prone to mutate in different areas, be it humid, poor, etc. Doubt we will get another big epedemic like the black death again tough. Diseases do no longer have the ability to mutate in an enviroment isolated from the rest of the world... So the next time the WHO rants about an epedemic like the last one: shrug it off

US/UK have been testing mysterious biological germ weapons on poor countries. We saw it Gabon, Africa, the test of Plague virus in India and many other countries secretly done by US scientist who have admitted it.

Human beings in other words are the same, all.  Balance is the key and the collective intelligence of the human being understands the ecosystem in the earth as mother and a finite as we understand being human, home.

Predato ry of the species has since the beginning of being able to prey, used, abused and discarded the innocent as though the act of criminal insane cannibalism of our own human species is ok.

Does not matter which government or country appears to be the answer or the problem.  The problem is human intelligence is not high enough to solve the idea of apartheid.  NOT one country on earth is smart enough in the aught years to solve the problem of DU ignorance globally and what this means for our species:  except the news and media provide the clue of just how deep in the abyss of no return the human being has disappeared into.

Once we use the ancient daoist practices to not overpopulate the planet and the verve of each human is functioning at levels of higher to continue growing and expanding in consciousness and,

believe that counts in flesh numbers is necessarily the key to survival,

the n we can expect there to be no predators necessary to continue the criminal insanity of cannibalism of our own human species.

Bala nce is the mission impossible, but forever is the time frame for the task.

Yes the USA have stated they would target Asian nations with race specific biological weapons. The plan for an American New Century page 60  saying bio weapons could be used to target geno types and be used for a political tool. The WHO is the last place they should be seeking help

Somebodys should nuke USA, and all swine flues and viruses will end at least

hmmm, all areas affected by pro vitamin A excess or lacks ...

Most of these viruses are man made. When you have the US and UN injecting people with all types of stupid vaccines in the third world, what you think is going to happen. We live in a world run by sickos, history has always shown that, and the 21st century is no exception.

Hmmm, looks like the good old U.S.A. has created another disease and are giving it a test run. This time they picked Asia. I guess they decided to give Subsaharan Africa a break for a change.