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...Shenzhen and Guangzhou to carry out fieldwork. It was Yi, along with the Shenzhen Centers for Disease Control, who in May took samples from Shenzhen's Dongmen Market and made the discovery that the masked palm civet, as well as the raccoon dog and hog badger, carried a virus remarkably similar to the SARS coronavirus. That research, initially hailed as a breakthrough in establishing the zoonotic origins of SARS, resulted in the Guangdong government temporarily banning the sale of civets. For Yi this should have been a crowning moment...
...late December, Yi was sitting in his apartment in Hong Kong, smoking 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 leap. But it could take months to get a paper peer-reviewed and published so it would impact public health by encouraging the Guangdong government to curtail the civet population--or at least limit contact between humans and the animal. In that time, the disease could again gain a foothold...
According to Davis, the Bugbear virus may trigger a variety of side effects, ranging from benign to harmful. Some versions of the virus steal sensitive data like passwords and credit card numbers from the infected machine...
...Anytime you have a computer virus, it’s a serious situation,” says Davis. “Even if an e-mail looks like it’s coming from someone you know, be careful...
While both Dickerman and Kelman said there was personal information in the virus-laden e-mails they received, the messages did not contain particularly sensitive information. Similarly, the infected e-mails sent from University Hall in June contained mostly innocuous information about scheduling and administrative tasks...