Word: civets
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...apartment in Hong Kong, on his leather sofa, watching his big-screen TV, smoking his Mild Seven cigarettes and wondering about his way forward. It was only a matter of time before another outbreak would occur, he now believed. There was simply too much interaction between humans and civets for this virus not to make the jump. But it could take months to get a paper peer-reviewed and published that could impact public health by encouraging the Guangdong government to curtail the civet population or at least limit contact between humans and this animal. In that time, the disease...
...Beijing's Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office, which he CC'ed to the Ministry of Health and the China CDC. "With winter coming, the wildlife markets have reopened, providing the perfect conditions for another outbreak of SARS," he wrote. He went on to list his findings that the civet is the major carrier of the SARS coronavirus, that the SARS coronavirus exists in different animals from different regions, that this virus can infect humans and, most frightening, that the "transmitting mechanism for the resurgence of SARS is in place." He enclosed four pages of genetic sequences taken from civets...
...like this: good luck coinciding with great research had proved that the same virus that was in those wild animal markets had somehow infected a human being. The data was so compelling that the committee resolved that afternoon to inform the governor of Guangdong and recommend a culling of civet cats...
...year; the economic impact of another SARS outbreak, however, was immeasurable. Zhong made that call on Sunday. He can be very persuasive: the order was given later that day to the Guangdong Health Department and the Guangdong Forestry Department, among other agencies, to launch a campaign to eradicate civet cats from the province's farms and markets. By Monday morning, said Peng Shangde, deputy director of the Guangdong Forestry Department, "we were staffed and the trucks were rolling...
...Officials at the Guangdong CDC, while confident that culling the civets was necessary, are not totally convinced that this will curtail an outbreak. They have ordered a further extermination of rats?a much more elusive target?because of evidence that they carry a similar virus. Dr. Rob Breiman, an epidemiologist from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who is leading the WHO team currently tracing the origins of last year's epidemic in Guangdong, observes, "Everyone certainly thinks this is meaningful. But where is the civet cat in the chain? Are they getting it from another animal...