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...contagious. But with the flu, a person can spread the infection days before they feel sick enough to go to a doctor. "The flu is a known devil," says Malik Peiris, one of the scientists at Hong Kong University who helped trace the 2003 outbreak of SARS to the civet cat. "This is a different ballgame...
...what should be done in the future if a proposal to, say, preserve the African Civet-roasting techniques of people deep in the forests of Zanzibar reaches committee? UNESCO would be wrong to shoot the proposal down purely because it’s related to gastronomy. Sure, the French can be stubborn and will never be accused of cultural humility, but that doesn’t mean they’re not onto something. We should take this opportunity, outlandish though it may seem, to reconsider our definition of the ICH and to work gastronomy into that definition. We have...
Cost of a cup of Kopi Luwak coffee at Australia's Heritage Tea Rooms. Brewed from beans handpicked out of civet-cat droppings, it is reputedly the world's rarest and most expensive coffee...
DISCOVERED. A previously unknown MAMMAL; after being photographed by remote cameras installed by the World Wildlife Fund; in a rain forest in East Kalimantan, Indonesia. If confirmed as a new species, the bushy-tailed, civet-like creature would be the first new carnivorous mammal discovered in Southeast Asia since 1930. DIED. RICHARD PRYOR, 65, celebrated American comic revolutionary; of a heart attack, in Encino, California. Pryor's comedy re-created the street characters?winos, pimps, junkies?he had grown up with. His no-holds-barred acts were matched by a private life that seemed an unending soap opera?outbursts...
...knows from experience how important that is. It was Guan who discovered, through field data he gathered, that civet cats were probably spreading the SARS virus to human beings. Guan formulated his hypothesis just as SARS was beginning to return in Guangdong at the start of 2004. A more patient scientist might have waited and harvested more data. But patience is not Guan's strong suit, and with new human cases surfacing, there wasn't time. Putting his scientific reputation on the line, he gave his preliminary results to authorities in Guangdong and urged them to cull civets being sold...