But her emphasis on the West's role is less sure an explanation for the practice's spread throughout China and India.
Yet its rapid uptake since 1994, when access to the Internet first spread beyond China's elite academic and scientific circles, suggests demand will be huge.
The disease has spread from eastern China both northward and southward, leading to the closure of a growing number of markets where live chicken is sold as a preventative measure.
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The disease has continued to spread from the eastern China area where it was first discovered.
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The Black Death is thought to have originated in China and spread to Europe through trade.
Between the 7th and 10th centuries, the technique spread to Tang Dynasty China.
Moreover, the great convergence has spread beyond India and China.
The last time Kerravala heard Cisco CEO John Chambers discuss the initiative in 2007, he says the academies already had spread to 198 locations across China and produced 27, 000 graduates, many who now likely hold jobs at Cisco.
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The spread of consumer spending power across China means that a company must constantly expand its geographic footprint--but the requirements of scale make it extremely critical to cluster locations appropriately to ensure competitive scale economies.
Severe acute respiratory syndrome erupted in China in late 2002 and spread to a number of countries, infecting more than 8, 000 people and killing about 775 before it disappeared in mid 2003.
Woo is also hopeful about China because of urbanization and the spread of high-speed rail.
He cites the slowdown in Europe as the primary cause, and sees signs that troubles there have spread to IT spending in North America and China.
Sales of live chicken in key markets in eastern China have been suspended to contain the spread H7N9 flu.
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Product development is spread evenly across studios in America, Britain, China and Norway.
International health experts have commended China on its transparency in reporting the spread of the virus, in sharp contrast to its handling of a Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (Sars) outbreak in 2003, when 8, 096 people were infected worldwide and 744 died.
China's growing production base and the spread of digital products thus presents the big firms with a confusing mix of threats and opportunities.
China is stepping up its efforts to contain the spread of a new strain of bird flu which has killed six people in the country.
Today Huntsman is listed and has moved into specialty chemicals, with operations spread across Asia in 22 different countries, not only in China but also in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia and Thailand.
David Hedley Jones, the company's business development director, belongs to a European Union-China group on copyright infringement, trying to slow the spread of contraband cubes in Europe.
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Noji's peek into China comes from 23, 000 heavy-duty vehicles spread across the nation's vastness, each fitted with an antenna that via satellite link tells Komatsu where it is and what it's doing.
The same trend will spread to other key Asian markets such as India, which has lagged China by only a few years as startup India has developed.
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When Gates and Buffett visited India last year to spread their mantra on philanthropy, they were not rebuffed as they were in China.
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In recent days, rumors spread on social networks and media sites on line saying that Coca-Cola China admitted in a TV program called Topics in Focus on the China Central Television network that its orange juice products contain a fungicide called Carbendazim.
Many other firms headquartered in Tokyo, like Sony, Hitachi and Honda Motors, have long ago spread their operations to the far reaches of the Japanese archipelago, Southeast Asia, China and beyond.
China agreed to "actively study" joining the control regime that limits the spread of missiles of more than short range.
For example, production of an iPhone is spread across several countries yet in U.S. trade statistics it counts as an import only from China.
Cities in eastern China where H7N9 first appeared have been closing live poultry markets and taking other precautions to limit the spread of the new virus.
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Those quotas forced rich-world clothing companies to spread their production across many countries, but when they go, production is likely to become more concentrated in China.
But tests carried out by laboratories in China, Hong Kong, Japan and Germany, for the WHO, now suggest the infection can also spread simply by touching a contaminated doorknob or lift button.
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