... participated in the design and coordination of the study. LD provided reagents and participated in the design and coordination of the study, as well as in the analysis of the data and drafting and ... including Gabon, India, Indone-sia, Italy, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka, in 2007, and Singa-pore and Sri Lanka in 2008. Most of these outbreakswere attributed to variants of the central/east Africangenotype ... infec-tions originated in Sri Lanka and Malaysia, respec-tively, rather than in China, as the disease has anincubation period of about three to twelve days [2] and no other local close contacts...