[Centurion2000]

Interesting ... I wonder how it affects Chinese assembly plants ... and will the virus cling and survive on the surface of manufactured goods.

Wal Mart may become a vector for this disease.

[mabelkitty]

I know that their manufacturing hotbed is concentrated in one province (Kwae Dong or something like that), and they are being hit hard. People get sick, people not working.

Corning should rethink that move from State College.

[wolf6656]

" Interesting ... I wonder how it affects Chinese assembly plants ... and will the virus cling and survive on the surface of manufactured goods."

Viruses are extreme survivors, perhaps the dominant lifeform in the universe. Some can survive extreme conditions in space for astronomical lengths of time. They arrive here daily in comet dust, and on meteorites.

http://www.panspermia.org/virus.htm
Viruses: Imported Genetic Software. by Brig Klyce

http://origins.jpl.nasa.gov/
NASA's Origins Program

http://www.astrobiology.com/exobiology.html
Exobiology | The Astrobiology Web | Your Online Guide to the Living Universe

I would think that the trip from Hong Kong or China would be relatively easy.