Consider a transmission case in Montana that is now ensnared in both the body politic and in the local courts: The state would host a 215-mile power line owned by Enbridge, called the Montana Alberta Tie.

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It had a four-speed transmission and fully working transfer case, so you could switch from two- to four-wheel drive.

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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is recommending hospitals test living donors for the virus that causes AIDS no more than seven days before their organs are removed and transplanted, following the first documented U.S. case of HIV transmission from a live organ donor in more than two decades.

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This comes after the French health ministry confirmed a second man had contracted the virus in a possible case of human-to-human transmission.

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The last recorded case of human to human transmission came in October 1977 when a cook called Ali Maow Maalin, living in a Somali village, contracted the illness.

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But Douglas noted that a major strategy is detecting infection before it spreads, so each case is an opportunity to prevent ongoing transmission.

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The Japanese case dates back to 2011 when Samsung filed a claim that Apple had use one of its data transmission techniques without paying a licence fee.

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