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...framed a simple letter to 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...
...with some of the province's highest health officials. There were representatives from the Department of Health, the Guangdong CDC, and the Ministry of Health, as well as eminent doctors and scientists from other institutions. Every man in that room had lived and worked through the first-ever SARS outbreak; many were clinicians who had watched patients whither, suffocate and die from the disease. Of these physicians, the most powerful was Dr. Zhong Nanshan, director of the Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Disease. Famed for having been a physician to Deng Xiaoping, Zhong had also pioneered the earliest clinical treatments...
...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 to eradicate civet cats from the province's farms and markets. By Monday...
...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...
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