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...will start a patriotic health campaign to kill rats and cockroaches in order to give every place a thorough cleaning for the Lunar New Year." Feng Liuxiang, deputy director of the Guangdong health bureau, after a second person in the southern Chinese province was suspected of coming down with SARS...
...Science doesn't produce many moments 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...
...There was only one man in that room with the clout and reputation to recommend a measure this extreme. Zhong was delegated to call Governor Huang Huahua. The argument he could give was simple: the wild animal business in Guangdong was estimated to be worth anywhere from $100 million to $200 million a 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...
...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...
...incubation period for SARS is 14 days. The last civets were taken from the wild animal markets on Jan. 6. By Jan. 20, if no new human cases emerge, we will have a very good indication if Yi, and the Guangdong government, made the right call...