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...however, is one of aggressive public health, great courage and, most important, good science. It is very possible that the research led by one virologist, Dr. Yi Guan, 42, and the extraordinary measures he took to make government officials aware of his work may have averted another disastrous SARS outbreak...
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...civet cat, he also detected the virus in hog badgers, Eurasian badgers, raccoon badgers and ferret badgers?he was astonished, when he did the genomic sequencing, to observe that these coronaviruses had actually mutated to become more similar to the SARS coronavirus samples taken from humans during the first outbreak last spring. All this confirmed that the disease that had infected humans was again at large. The animals that showed the highest infection rate by far were the civet cats, with 16 positive cases out of 21 animals tested. These civets had come from several different markets and traders, which...
...late December, Yi was sitting in his 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...
...believes deeply in the future of the People's Republic and is forgiving of its occasional foibles, dismissing malfeasances such as last year's early cover-up of the SARS outbreak with a shrug. The many top officials he has met, he believes, will always do what is right if they have the relevant information. The problem is getting that data in front of them...